Benjamin Reiss, Professor of English, Emory University
Professor Reiss argued in this talk that Henry David Thoreau is one of the great critical modern sleepers, someone who both diagnosed and resisted the commodification and regulation of the sleep-wake cycle.
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Gary Tomlinson, John Jay Whitney Professor of Music
and the Humanities, Yale University
In this discussion, Professor Tomlinson examined how the deep, extraordinary history of musicking offers several heuristic opportunities of extra-musical reach.
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Joanna Radin, Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine, Yale University
Prof. Radin examined three episodes in the International Biological Program's project to collect and freeze blood from members of human populations depicted as primitive and endangered.
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Janet Downie, Assistant Professor of Classics, Princeton University
Professor Downie presented several imperial Greek texts that reflect upon the value of the tumuli of Troy as places of memory and argued that Philostratus, in particular, saw the burial landscape of the Troad as offering a way to articulate contemporary Greeks’ relationship to the past.
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Wei-ping Lin, Professor and Chair, College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University
Although widespread in Taiwan and China, god statues have received little attention from anthropologists. By examining god statues, Professor Lin attempted to answer several important questions in Chinese religion.
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Patrick Grim, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Stony Brook University
Against a history of animation from Windsor McCay to contemporary fine art, Professor Grim’s paper focused on both the psychological facts and the philosophical questions regarding our dynamic visual processing.
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Andrew H. Miller, Professor of English, Indiana University
Professor Miller’s talk considered the imagination of counterfactual self-understanding in literature and film, with special attention to the film Another Year (director Mike Leigh, 2010).
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Spyridon Papapetros, Associate Professor in
History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University
Professor Papapetros described how turn-of-the-century art history projected ethnographic theories of animistic practices on Renaissance and modern artworks while endowing inert images with the semblance of liveliness (Lebendigkeit) and animation (Belebung).
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