Materialities, Texts and Images

Friday, May 10

Morning  Session

9:30-11:00am           

Peter Stallybrass (English, Penn), "The Materiality of Writing"

11:15am-12:45pm   

Elor Halevi (History and Law, Vanderbilt), "The Things That Infidels Make: Modern Objects Before the Sacred Law of Islam"

Afternoon Session

2:00-3:.30pm            

Elaine Treharne (English, Stanford), "Fleshy and Flimsy Inhabitations of the Medieval Codex"

3:45-5:15pm             

Ken Alder (History of Science and Technology, Northwestern), "Thick Things:  Science and Technology as Performance"  

Saturday, May 11^th

Morning  Session

9:30-11:00am            

Hollis Clayson (Art History, Northwestern), "Mary Cassatt's Lamp" 

11:15am-12:45pm    

Frank Trentmann (History, Birkbeck College, London, and SCI, Manchester), "Energizing History: Materiality, Networks and Practices"

Afternoon Session

2:00-2:30pm              

MTI Fellows Stephanie Sobelle (Gettysburg College) and Alexander Wragge-Morley (Somerville College, Oxford) will introduce their projects for 2013-14

2:30 pm                       

General discussion introduced and moderated by Bill Brown

For more information, please contact Sabrina Boschetti at sabrina@hss.caltech.edu.