Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Spring Conference of the Working Research Group on "Poetics and Theory."
Saturday, March 7, 2009

The Humanities Initiative
New York University
20 Cooper Square
(at East 5th Street)
Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10003

11-11:15AM
John Hamilton (NYU)
Opening Remarks

11:15AM-12:15PM
Eva Horn (Vienna)
"Beginning and the End: The Narrative of Prevention in Science Fiction"

12:30-1:30PM
Joy Connolly (NYU)
"Fear, Freedom, and the Right to Lie"

1:30-2:30PM
Break for Lunch

1:30-2:30PM
Graduate Student Presentations and Roundtable:
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
Andrea Cooper
Michael Gallope
Raluca Manea
Alana Smith

4:15-5:15PM
Thomas Levin (Princeton)
"Surveillant Time Travel: Déjà Vu and Hyberbolic Panopticism"

5:30-8PM
Reception