Boston University Colloquium on Literature, Philosophy, & Aesthetics
Location: Room 325 of the BU School of Theology (745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston)
Friday, November 4
1:00-1:10 Welcome
1:10-2:30 Kristin Gjesdal (Philosophy, Temple), “Nature, Poetry, and Politics: Three Women Philosophers” Respondent: Michael Prince (English, BU)
2:40-4:00 Hannah Kim (Philosophy, Macalester College), “North Korean Aesthetics and National Autonomy” Respondent: Yoon Sun Yang (World Languages and Literatures, BU)
4:30-5:50 Anna Kornbluh (English, University of Illinois-Chicago), “Collapsing Autonomy: Antifictionality and Antitheory as Contemporary Literary Style” Respondent: Samantha Matherne (Philosophy, Harvard)
Saturday, November 5
9:30-10:50 Adriana Clavel-Vazquez (Philosophy, Oxford), “Situated Artworks and Aesthetic Autonomy” Respondent: Rodrigo Lopes de Barro (Romance Studies, BU)
11:10-12:30 Héctor Hoyos (Comparative Literature, Stanford), ““Borges and the Crucible of Aesthetic Autonomy in Latin America” Respondent: Juliet Floyd (Philosophy, BU)
2:15-3:35 C. Thi Nguyen (Philosophy, Univ. of Utah), “Art as a Shelter from Science” Respondent: Theo Davis (English, Northeastern)
4:00-5:20 Sanjay Krishnan (English, BU), “The Idea of Resistance in the Postcolonial Novel” Respondent: Daniel Star (Philosophy, BU)
