The Erotics of Humanism

Cultural Studies Common Seminar – Graduate Student Conference

Tuesday, April 20 CL 501

 

9:30 AM:

 

Benjamin McBrayer (Music) – "The Erotics of Opera Scholarship: Drastic Musicology, Clandestine Mysticism, and the Incarnation of Philosophical Charm"

 

Carolina Gainza (Hispanic Language and Literature) -- "Desiring and Technological Machines: Subjectivities and Interconnections in the Era of Informational Capitalism"

 

Donald E. Simpson (Art and Architecture) – “Love Means Never Having to Say Anything: Eros, Aristophanic Reunification, and the Power of Speech”

 

11:00 AM:

 

Aaron Tacinelli (Art and Architecture) – "Architecture of Love: Alberto Pérez-Gómez and the Erotic in Contemporary Architecture"

 

J. Ulises Arredondo (Hispanic Language and Literature) – “Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar: The Seductive Rhetoric toward an Imaginary of Modernity”

 

Felipe Pruneda Senties (English) – “The Poetics of Erotic Confession in Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle."

 

12:30 PM – Lunch Break

 

2:00 PM:

 

Roberto Ponce-Cordero (Hispanic Language and Literature) – "Organizing Desire: The Invention of Romantic Love in the Letters of Heloise and Abelard"

 

Scott Bishop (Italian) – "The Erotic Attachment as Allegory of the Self: Petrarch and the Allure of Fame"

 

Ryan Durkopp (Music) – “The Erotics of Led Zeppelin: East Meets West”

 

3:30 PM:

 

Eléonore Bertrand (French) – “La Parole Érotique and the Erotic Parole in La Princesse de Clèves

 

Racheal Forlow (English) – "Blood Code and Modernist Aesthetics in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!"

 

Liam O’Loughlin (English) – "Midnight's Children and the Erotic: Castration and Creation"

 

Katie Moriarity (French) – “The Stroke of Midnight: the Erotics of Touch and the Nation in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children”

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