The Second Biennial BABEL Conference: PROGRAM AVAILABLE
David Fried, Way of Words, No. 3: “A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.”
cruising in the ruins: the question of disciplinarity in the post/medieval university
20-22 September 2012 Boston, Massachusetts
***CONFERENCE PROGRAM ON BABEL MEETING SITE***
[co-organized by the BABEL Working Group, Boston College, Northeastern University, M.I.T., postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, and punctum books]
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Jane Bennett (Chair, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University)
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University, Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute + In The Middle)
Carolyn Dinshaw (Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English at New York University), author ofChaucer’s Sexual Poetics (1989)
Lindy Elkins-Tanton (Director, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science)
David Kaiser (Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Department Head of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, M.I.T.)
Marget Long (MFA, Rhode Island School of Design)
Sans façon (Glasgow, Scotland)
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