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Richard Gray (Germanics)
Nicholas Halmi (English)
Gary Handwerk (Comparative Literature)
Michael Rosenthal (Philosophy)
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This international conference--scheduled for May 18 through May 20, 2007--will interrogate the category of the human "imagination" from multiple disciplinary perspectives: literary, philosophical, anthropological, scientific, and sociopolitical, among others. Conference participants will investigate not merely those ideas or objects the creative imagination is thought to have produced, but above all different ways in which the very faculty of the imagination has been "invented" and conceived at distinct historical junctures.
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Schedule is forthcoming.
- Imagination and Scientific Discovery
- Imagination, Economics, Fetishism
- Image and Imagination
- The Imagination in the History of Philosophy
- Religion, Imagination, Iconoclasm
- Theorizing Imagination; Imagining Theory
- En-gendering the Imagination
- Imaging/Imagining Race
- Imaginary Worlds
- Imagination: Reason's "Other"?
- Excess of the Imagination
- Imagination and Performance
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Nora Alter
Georg Braungart
David Clark
Ursula Heise
Beth Lord
Bill Nichols
Tommasso Pierini
Robert Pippin
Tilottama Rajan
Alexander Schlutz
Klaus Vieweg
Wilhelm Vosskamp
Wolfgang Welsch
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