Where We Are Now: A Symposium to Honor Brenda Silver

Scholarship. Exploration. Questions.

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Panels: 12-4:15 PM, Haldeman 041

Reception: 4:30 PM, Leslie Center for the Humanities

Panel 1: 12 – 2 PM

Chair: Barbara Will, Dartmouth College
Melissa Zeiger, Dartmouth College. “Unnatural Cultivation: Jamaica Kincaid’s Garden Writing.”
Matthew Rowlinson, Univ. of Western Ontario. “Darwin’s Ideas.”
Carla Freccero, UC Santa Cruz. “Animate Figures: The Queer Worlds of Non-Human Being.”
L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, UC Santa Barbara. “Why Care?”

Please bring a lunch along to enjoy the panel!

Panel 2: 2:30 – 4:15 PM

Chair: Lynn Higgins, Dartmouth College
Alice Gambrell, Univ. of Southern California. “Critical Craft: Designing Scholarly Knowledge.”
J. Martin Favor, Dartmouth College. “The End(s) of Multiculturalism(s).”
Jonathan Crewe, Dartmouth College. “Arrival.” From J.M. Coetzee: A Critical Memoir

Sponsored by the Department of English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Contact Cristen Brooks, Program Coordinator of the Women's and Gender Studies Program, for more information.