Thursday, February 10, 2005

2-3 Registration
Russell House Theater

3-5 Opening Remarks
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Keynote Address

Stanley Cavell, Harvard University, “The Wittgensteinian Event”
Introduced by Lawrence Rhu, University of South Carolina

5-6 Reception
Graniteville Room, Thomas Cooper Library

“Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Exhibit Selected from the Joel Myerson Collection
of 19th Century American Literature”
Arranged by Patrick Scott

7 Bright Leaves, followed by discussion with the director, Ross McElwee
Nickelodeon Theatre, 937 Main St.

Friday, February 11, 2005 – All sessions meet in the Clarion Town House.

8:30-9:45 Session 1a McElwee
Salon A

Hayes Hampton, University of South Carolina (Sumter)“’I Can Make You a
Man’: Rebuilt Masculinity from Rocky Horror to Sherman’s
March”

Carl Elliott, University of Minnesota, “The Reversal of Alienation by Art”

Jim Lane, Emerson College, “Time Indefinite and the Autobiographical
Documentary”

Ross McElwee, Harvard University, Respondent

William Rothman, University of Miami, Chair and Session Organizer

Session 1b Philosophy following Cavell following Wittgenstein & Austin
Camellia Room

Gary Hagberg, Bard College, “Philosophy as Therapy: Wittgenstein,
Cavell, and Autobiographical Writing”

R.M. Berry, Florida State University, “Can We Say What We Say? or The
Anguish of Philosophy’s Writing”

Richard Fleming, Bucknell University, Respondent, “W-A-C”

Ronald Hall, Stetson University, Chair; Ralph Berry, Session Organizer

Session 1c Philosophy, memoirs, politics
Salon B

Karen English, San Jose State University, “The Infinite Present: An
Emersonian Reading of Ross McElwee’s Time Indefinite”

Marlene Benjamin, Stonehill College, “Philosophy, Trauma, and the Self”

Margaret Mott, Marlboro College, “It is Enough: Thoughts on Wittgenstein
and Woolf after a traumatic day at IKEA”

Marlene Benjamin, Chair and Session Organizer

9:45-10 Refreshments

10-11:15 Session 2a McElwee
Salon A

Charles Warren, Boston University, “Surprise and Pain, Writing and Film”

Marian Keane, Independent Scholar, “Reflections on Bright Leaves”

William Rothman, “I Film, Therefore I Am: Meditations on God, the Self
and the Camera in Six O’Clock News”

Ross McElwee, Respondent

William Rothman, Chair and Session Organizer

Session 2b Gender: Representation and Reception
Salon B

Nancy Warren, Florida State University, “The Word Made Flesh:
Knowledge and Suffering in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and
Her Seventeenth-Century Readers”

Christine Hamm, Adger University College, “Motherhood and Melodrama
in the Works of Sigrid Undset”

Graham Culbertson, University of South Carolina, “’Too Wise to Woo
Peaceably’: Intolerable Cruelty and Remarriage Comedy”

Ralph Berry, Florida State University, Chair

Session 2c Philosophy, Film, and Literature
Camellia Room

Ellen Brightwell, University of South Carolina, “Adventures in
Advertising: The Capitalist Construct in Alfred Hitchcock's
North by Northwest”

Stephen Marsh, University of South Carolina, “Tactics and Thresholds in
Edgar Neville’s Life on a Thread (1945)”

Daniel Malloy, Appalachian State University, “Buggering Beckett: Cavell
and Adorno on Endgame”

Dan Streible, University of South Carolina, Chair

11:30-12:30 Plenary Session
Salon A

Stephen Mulhall, Oxford University, “The Impersonation of Personality:
Film as Philosophy in Mission Impossible”
Introduced by Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina

2-3:40 Session 3a Emerson I
Salon A

James Bense, Moorehead State University, “At Odds with De-
Transcendentalizing Emerson: William James and Stanley Cavell”

John Lysaker, University of Oregon, “In Defense of an Emersonian Present”

William Day, LeMoyne College“Why Is It So Hard to Detail Our Lives:
Cavell, Emerson, and Hollywood Films”

Russell Goodman, University of New Mexico, Chair

Session 3b Moral Philosophy and Social Criticism
Salon B

Michael Fischer, Trinity University, “Stanley Cavell and Criticizing the
University from Within”

Tara G. Gilligan, Lafayette College,“Sharing a World: Stanley Cavell and
Moral Disagreement”

Nikolas Kompridis, York University (Toronto),“Heidegger, Moral
Perfectionism, and the Place of Romanticism in Democratic
Culture”

Paul Jenner, Nottingham University, “The Criticism of Philosophy:
Santayana, Rorty, Cavell”

Charles Warren, Boston University, Chair

Session 3c Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy
Camellia Room

Julie Kuhlken, Goldsmiths College (London), “The Exemplarity of the
Artist”

Jesse Beall Dubreuil, University of Virginia, “Problems of Art: Narrative,
Knowledge, and the Task of the Poet-Critic”

William Franke, Vanderbilt University, “What Philosophical Criticism of
Literature Can Do”

John Bruns, College of Charleston, “The Mind of Stanley Cavell: A
Comedy”

Judith Kalb, University of South Carolina, Chair

3:40-4 Refreshments

4-5 Plenary Session
Salon A

Karen Hanson, Indiana University, “Love and Friendship in the Balance:
The Case of Jules et Jim”
Introduced by Laura Walls, University of South Carolina

7 Banquet at McCutcheon House on the Horseshoe

Saturday, February 12, 2005 – All sessions meet in the Moore School.

8:30-9:45 Session 4a Emerson II
Moore School 582

Tom Allen, University of Richmond, “Natural History and Liberal
Democracy in Emerson’s Thought”

Sue Field, New Mexico Tech (Socorro), “Half-breed Philosophy: Emerson,
Cavell, and Interdisciplinary Sallies”

Georg Schwartzman, University of South Carolina, “Emerson and José
Marti”

Thomas Brown, University of South Carolina, Chair

Session 4b Jacques Rivette
Moore School 535

Douglas Morrey, University of Newcastle on Tyne, “The Art of the Present
and the Dialectics of Duration: Jacques Rivette Between Film
Criticism and Filmmaking”

Oliver Speck, University of North Carolina (Wimington), “Untimely Films:
Jacques Rivette and the Philosophy of the Fold”

Margaret A. Ozierski, Duke University, “The Origin of the Work of Art:
Jacques Rivette’s La belle noiseuse”

Oliver Speck, Session Organizer and Chair

Session 4c Skepticism, Montaigne, Shakespeare
Moore School 583

Rui Romão, Universidade da Beira Interior, “Ataraxy or Anxiety? An
Interpretation of Early Modern Skepticism”

Russell Goodman, University of New Mexico, "Emerson and Montaigne: Opening Thoughts"

Lawrence Rhu, University of South Carolina, “Cleopatra and the Pathos of
Finitude”

Jeff Persels, University of South Carolina, Chair

Session 4d Cavell, Philosophy, Film
Moore School 534

Nancy Bauer, Tufts University, “Marking Time: Before Sunrise, Before
Sunset”

JohnPaul Spiro, Villanova University, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Swarm of Locusts: On Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven”

Janine Utell, Widener University, “The Ethics of Love in Hoffman”

William Day, LeMoyne College, Chair

10-11:15 Session 5a Emerson III
Moore School 583

Nancy Bunge, Michigan State University, “Why Emerson Is Much Too
Smart to Be a Philosopher”

Hans von Rautenfeld, University of South Carolina, “Imputing Sense:
Emerson and the Constitution of a Public”

Bill Scalia, Independent Scholar, “Emerson and the Poetry of Things”

Laura Walls, University of South Carolina, Chair

Session 5b Philosophy and Film
Moore School 535

Brian Butler, University of North Carolina (Asheville), “Film and the
Image of the Law”

Andrew Kania, University of Maryland, “’Write This Down’: Aesthetic
Lessons from Memento”

Thomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College, “Film as Thought
Experiment”

Angela Curran, Franklin and Marshall College, Commentator

Thomas E. Wartenberg, Session Organizer and Chair

Session 5c Shakespeare and Philosophy
Moore School 582

David Mikics, University of Houston, “Cavell and Frye on Shakespeare and
Genre”

Anita Gilman Sherman, American University, “The Art of Skeptical
Memory in The Winter’s Tale”

Sarah Beckwith, Duke University, “The Lover’s Confession: Cavell,
Shakespeare, and Religion”

Edward Gieskes, University of South Carolina, Chair

Session 5d Cavell, Philosophy, Film
Moore School 534

Aron Vinegar, Ohio State University, “One Dummy (concept), Two Voices”

David L. Moseley and Eileen Johns, University of Louisville,
“Representational and Distributive Models of Memory in Mystic
River”

Alexandra Heifetz, Northwestern University, “Contesting Tears, Attesting
Faith, and Upholding Chaos: The Survival of Moral Perfectionism
in the Movies”

John Lysaker, University of Oregon, Chair

11:30-12:30 Plenary Session
Moore School 005

Toril Moi, Duke University, “Externalizing the Inner Drama of the Mind:
Theater, Marriage, Freedom in Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea”
Introduced by Allen Miller, University of South Carolina

2—3:40 Session 6a Emerson IV
Moore School 583

Thomas Meyer, Temple University, “Renewals of Genius: The Turn to
Emerson in Nietzsche and Cavell”

John Beer, University of Chicago, “Transcendental Deduction and
Transcendental Interpretation: Reading Finding as Founding”

Peter Sattler, Lakeland College, “Emerson’s Failure”

David Mikics, University of Houston, Chair

Session 6b German Philosophy
Moore School 582

Erin E. Flynn, Ohio Weslyan University, “Emerson, Kant, and German
Romanticism”

Keith Johnson, Boston University, “Engel oder Puppe: Subjectivity at the
Asymptotes”

Eli Friedlander, Tel Aviv University, “Walter Benjamin’s ‘Agesilaus
Santander’”

Nickolas Pappas, City University of New York, “Nietzsche is the
philosopher of the future and always will be (perfectionism …
skepticism)”

Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina, Chair

Session 6c Documentary in Context
Moore School 534

David Paletz, Duke University, "Many Are Submitted, Few Are Chosen:
Documentary Films to a Documentary Festival"

Laura Kissel, University of South Carolina, “Creative Geographies:
Looking at Cabin Field”

Gabriel Paletz, Association of Moving Image Archivists,
“Documentary and the Freedom of Early Film”

David Whiteman, University of South Carolina, “Unleashing the Power of
Documentary Film”

David Paletz and David Whiteman, Co-Chairs and Session Organizers

Session 6d Cavell, Philosophy, Film
Moore School 535

Gilberto Perez, Sarah Lawrence College, “Rhetorical Figures in It
Happened One Night”

Gail Stevenson, Independent Scholar, “Feminist Reception of Cavell’s Film
Criticism”

Kay Young, University of California (Sanata Barbara),
“Melodrama/Metaphor/Metamorphosis: Pamela and Bette Davis
Play Dress Ups”

Lawrence Rhu, University of South Carolina, Chair