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Failure is Our Greatest Option: The Question of Reading and the Politics of Literature

Event Itinerary, Day 2

To register for any of the conference events below please write to the Leslie Center for the Humanities at humanities.center@dartmouth.edu.

Wednesday, May 11: Hopkins Center Faculty Lounge (205 Hopkins)

9:00-11:30 AM

Reading Material: Spaces, Archives, Histories, Embodiments

• Pratima Prassad (University of Massachusetts, Boston), "Reading Skeptically: Notes from the Indian Ocean"
• François Proulx (University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana), "Between Private and Public: Marcel Proust Reading and Writing, 1892-1896"
• Liesl Yamaguchi (Boston College), "Reading Synesthesia"
• Mathieu Roger-Lacan (Université Paris Cité, EHSS), "Des corps sans histoire? On the Problematic Link between Historical Violence and Sexual Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel"

Moderator: Patrick Bray

2:00-4:00 PM

The Reader's Part/Partages du lecteur

• Jacques-David Ebguy (Université Paris Cité), "Text's not Dead! Reading the Novel with(out) Rancière"
• Göran Blix (Princeton University), "Balzac/Rancière: On l'égalité de tous les sujets"
• Jessica Tanner (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Text Work: On Reading (un)Well"

• Nirvana Tanoukhi, Dartmouth College, Department of English
• Antonio Gomez, Dartmouth College, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• yasser elhariry, Dartmouth College, Department of French and Italian
• Alessandra Aloisi, Oxford University
• Patrick Bray, University College London

Moderator: Robert St.Clair

We wish to thank the following entities, departments, and colleagues for their generous support in making this conference possible: The Leslie Center for the Humanities, The Department of French and Italian, the Guthrie Fund, Rebecca Biron (Director, the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College), David Laguardia (Chair of French and Italian, Dartmouth College), and Associate Dean Samuel Levy.