The State of the Humanities

Treasure Room, Dabney Hall

California Institute of Technology

April 5, 2013

Morning  Session

9:00am   Coffee and pastries

9:30-11:00am   Rita Felski (University of Virginia), "The Limits of Critique"

11:00am-12:30pm   Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), "Responding to History: Humanities in the Modern and Post-Modern University"

12:30-1:30pm   Lunch in Dabney Gardens

Afternoon Session

2:00-3:30pm   John Guillory (New York University), "Monuments and Documents: On the Object of Study in the Humanities"

3:30-5:00pm   Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge), "On Not 'Justifying' the Humanities"

*For reservations and papers, please contact Sabrina Boschetti by email at sabrina@hss.caltech.edu or by phone at 626-395-4228.