The annual meeting of NetIAS, the Consortium of Directors of European Humanities Centres and Institutes, and Directors of Centres for Disciplinary Innovation (Mellon funded Consortium for Disciplinary Innovation Project).
The event will include a free lecture by Professor Richard Sennett on Thursday 2 April, open to all.
The main conference is open to members of NetIAS and CIAS. To register please contact mm405@cam.ac.uk. Conference registration for Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th April will open generally on 16th March; to add your name to the list, please contact mm405@cam.ac.uk.
Disciplinary Innovation and the Humanities Centre
Provisional Programme
Location : CRASSH Date : 2-4 April 2009
Thursday 2 April |
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12.30 |
Buffet Lunch for NetIAS Directors |
14.00-16.15 |
NetIAS Business Meeting |
16.15-16.45 |
Tea/coffee Break |
17.00-17.15 |
Mill Lane Lecture Theatre 2 |
17.15-18.30
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Keynote Lecture at Mill Lane Lecture Theatre 2 |
19.00-21.30 |
Reception and Dinner at Clare Hall |
Friday 3 April |
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8.45-9.15 |
Registration |
9.15-10.45 |
Panel 1: Area Studies, Anthropology and Affirmation Nicholas Dirks (Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology, and Vice-President for the Arts and Sciences, Columbia University) Henrietta Moore (William Wyse Professor of Anthropology, University of Cambridge) Respondent: Shruti Kapila (Lecturer in South Asian History, University of Cambridge) Chair: Harri Englund (Reader in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge) |
10.45-11.15 |
Tea/coffee Break |
11.15-12.45 |
Panel 2: Aesthetic Critique and Embodied Affect Anthony Cascardi (Ancker Professor for Comparative Literature, Rhetoric and Spanish, and Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California and Berkeley) Chair: Lucia Ruprecht (Lecturer, Department of German, University of Cambridge) |
12.45-13.45 |
Lunch |
13.45-15.15 |
Panel 3: Democracy, Rationality, and Religion Akeel Bilgrami (Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University) Respondent: Srinivas Aravamudan (Professor of English, and Director, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University) Chair: Sujit Sivasundaram (Lecturer, Department of International History, LSE) |
.15-15-15.30 |
Tea/coffee Break |
15.30-17.00 |
Panel 4: New Media, Criticism, and Technology
James Chandler (Barbara E and Richard J Franke Distinguished Service Professor and Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago) Chair: Stefan Collini (Professor of English, University of Cambridge) |
17.45-18.45 |
Visit to the Wren Library, Trinity College |
19.00 |
Reception and Dinner at Trinity Hall |
Saturday 4 April |
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9.15-10.30 |
Panel 1: Humanities Institutes and their Institutions Regenia Gagnier (Professor of English, and Director, Exeter Interdisciplinary Institute, University of Exeter) Chair: Srinivas Aravamudan (Professor of English, and Director, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University) |
10.30-11.00 |
Tea/Coffee Break |
11.00-12.00 |
Panel 2: Humanities Institutes and their Publics James Chandler (Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago) Kryzysztof Michalski (Professor of Philosophy, and Rector, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna) Wim Blockmans (Rector, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar) |
12.00-12.45 |
Discussion and Future Plans |
12.45-13.45 |
Lunch |
14.30-15.30 |
Tour and Talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum with David Scrase (Assistant Director, Fitzwilliam Museum) |