2022: Economics, Models, Narrative
The German Research Foundation funded network “Model Aesthetics – Between Literary and Economic Knowledge” is inviting you to join us for the public portion of our online workshop “Economics, Models, Narrative” on Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14.
Mary Morgan (LSE) will be speaking on May 13 at 9am EST (2pm GMT/3pm CET) about "Narrative Practices with Models.”
Jane Elliott (King’s College London) will hold her talk, "Live Models and the Agony of Allocative Choice,” on May 14 at 8am EST (1pm GMT/2pm CET).
Both talks will be followed by a Q&A.
The lectures will be held on Zoom and all are welcome to attend. Please use this form to register for one or both events. You will receive a Zoom link closer to the date.
To learn more about the research network, visit this website. More information about our keynote speakers can be found here (Elliott) and here (Morgan). The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory.
For questions or concerns, please email Carolin Benack at carolin.benack@duke.edu.
2022: Kevis Goodman
On March 24, from 12 – 2 pm in Allen 314, Duke’s Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory (CISSCT) is sponsoring a symposium with Kevis Goodman (English, UC-Berkeley) on her forthcoming book Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics (Yale University Press, Fall 2022). A description of Professor Goodman’s book appears below.
Participants in the symposium are asked to register, and to read two chapters from Professor Goodman’s book in advance of the discussion. To register and receive copies of these chapters, please email Quantá Holden at quanta.holden@duke.edu or click this link. Please address questions about this event to Elizabeth Apple at elizabeth.apple@duke.edu.
Kevis Goodman’s Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics (Yale University Press, Fall 2022) studies the development of medicine, aesthetics, and poetics as overlapping forms of knowledge concerned about the increasingly vexed relationships between historical mobility and the physiological, nervous “motions” within bodies and minds compelled to move. Departing from standard narratives about medicine and art’s shared therapeutic and harmonizing ideals, this book explores Enlightenment and Romantic-era aesthetics and poetics in relation to a central but less well-known area of eighteenth-century environmental medicine: pathology. No mere system of diagnosis or classification, philosophical pathology was an art of interpretation, offering sophisticated ways of reading the multiple conditions and causes of disease, however absent from perception, in their palpable, embodied effects. For medical, anthropological, environmental, and literary authors alike, it helped to locate the dislocations of modern mobility when a full view of its causes and conditions remained imperfectly understood or still unfolding. Kevis Goodman traces the surprising afterlife of the period’s exemplary but unexplained pathology of motion, medical nostalgia, within aesthetic theory and poetics, arguing that nostalgia persisted there not as a named category but as a set of formal principles and practices, perturbing claims about harmony, freedom, and free play of the mind. Pathologies of Motion thereby identifies a counterplot within past and present accounts of aesthetic experience: an undertow, or felt unease, emerging in particular in readers and acts of reading. Ultimately, this study hopes to suggest new ways of understanding later-eighteenth century aesthetics and poetics as intrinsically historical thinking, not only historical by reference to context.
2022: Foucault, the Sciences and Humanities, and Critique
On March 17-18, Duke’s Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory (CISSCT) is sponsoring a symposium on “Foucault, the Sciences and Humanities, and Critique.” The symposium will begin with a discussion with Rey Chow (Duke) about her recent book, A Face Drawn in the Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present (Columbia UP, 2021), and will also include discussions with Anna Auguscik (U Oldenburg), Nima Bassiri (Duke), Mark Hansen (Duke), Anton Kirchhofer (U Oldenburg), and Rob Mitchell (Duke). Topics to be discussed include the implications of Foucault’s work for critical studies of race, the sciences and the humanities, the university, media studies, and the concepts of the Anthropocene and technosphere.
The symposium will be held in the Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Building) as an in-person event Thursday, March 17, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm and Friday, March 18, 9:00 - noon. Participants are asked to register in advance, and to read pre-circulated readings from several of the symposium events. (If the registration exceeds the room maximum, a Zoom option will be made available for additional participants.) To register and receive copies of this work and the final schedule, please email Quantá Holden at quanta.holden@duke.edu or click this link.
Please address questions about this event to Elizabeth Apple at elizabeth.apple@duke.edu.