TOPOLOGIES OF READING
March 30, 2012
010 East Pyne Building
German Department Graduate Conference, Princeton University
Organized by Tanvi Solanki and Alice Christensen
Sponsored by the Department of German with generous support from PIIRS, Center for Human Values, School of Architecture, the Graduate School, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Keynote Speaker: Helmut Müller-Sievers
“Extrinsic Curvature: On the Topology of 19th Century Narrative Prose”
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8:30-9:00AM Coffee
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9:00AM Opening Remarks
Tanvi Solanki and Alice Christensen (Princeton)
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9:15-10:45AM Mapping Passages
Chair: Nikolaus Wegmann
Respondent: Mareike Schildmann
Respondent: Carolina Malagon
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10:45-11:00AM Coffee
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11:00AM-12:30PM Fluctuating Forms
Chair: Devin Fore
Respondent: Frederic Ponten
Michael Sanchez (Columbia): 1969: Process, Mobility, Financialization
Respondent: Megan Ewing
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12:30-1:45PM Lunch
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1:45-3:15PM Keynote Address
Helmut Müller-Sievers (Colorado-Boulder): Extrinsic Curvature: On the Topology of 19th Century Narrative Prose
Moderator: Michael W. Jennings
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3:15-5:00PM Shifting Lines
Chair: Christiane Frey
Respondent: Sarah Eldridge
Respondent: Mladen Gladic
William Stovall (Yale): Gloss/Glossa: Reading The Arcades Project
Respondent: Matthew Vollgraff
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5:00-5:15PM Coffee
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5:15-6:45PM Registering Senses
Chair: Sara S. Poor
Hartley Miller (Princeton): Reading Love: the Medieval Romance of Flamenca and the Floating Text
Respondent: Hannah Hunter-Parker
Respondent: Julian Petri
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6:45PM Reception
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