Schedule

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Monday

May 22

 9-12:    Introductions

  • Coole and Frost, “Introducing the New Materialisms”
  • Barad, “Posthumanist Performativity”
  • Bennett, “A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to New Materialism”

12-2:    LUNCH

2-4:    Thing/World

  • Heidegger, “The Thing”

4-5:      Breakout Groups

7-8:30: Seminar Reception
Tuesday

May 23

 9-12:    Nature-Culture

  • Ingold, “People Like Us”
  • Kirby, “Original Science”

12-2:    LUNCH

2-4:    Matter-Symbol

  • Vitale, “The Text and the Living”
  • Tomlinson “Acheulean Performances”

4-5:      Breakout Groups

7 pm: Kinsey Screening (ticketed at the Cinema)
Wed

May 24

 9-12:   Animal Rhetorics: Matter-Symbol 2

12-2:    LUNCH

2-4:    Vegetal Cognition: Matter-Symbol 3

4-5:    Breakout Groups

Evening: Jam Session in Willkie Dorm
Thursday

May 25

 8:30-9:30: Wrap ups

9:30-11:30: Brainstorming research directions for the future

12-2: Luncheon + keynote