UW Simpson Center: Inventions of the Imagination: Perspectives on the Imaginary since Romanticism

Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary Since Romanticism • May 18-20, 2007

Inventions of the Imagination

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Conference Overview
	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.
Conference Program Overview
	Download program Friday, May 18, 2007 7:00 pm Keynote Address: David Clark (English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University), Imagining Peace: Kant's Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:00-11:15 am SESSION 1: Theorizing the Imagination SESSION 2: Imagination and Scientific Modeling 11:30-1:30 pm Keynote Address: Robert Pippin (Philosophy, University of Chicago), On the Nature of Hegel's Appeal to Literature in the Phenomenology of Spirit 2:00-4:15 pm SESSION 3: Image, Non-Image, and Imagination SESSION 4: Imaginative Interpretation 4:30-6:45 pm SESSION 5: Film and the Documentary Imagination SESSION 6: Post-Romantic Imaginaries Sunday, May 20, 2007 9:30 am-12:00 pm SESSION 7: Reason and Imagination SESSION 8: Romantic Imagination
Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies
	In conjunction with Inventions of the Imagination, UW graduate students will convene an interdisciplinary conference on the theme Imagination: Public or Private?. Scheduled for May 17-18, 2007, in the Rey Library of Denny Hall, the conference features a variety of panels as well as a roundtable discussion led by Nicholas Halmi (English and Comparative Literature) and Leroy Searle (English and Comparative Literature) on the imagination as a concept that might be used to organize both pedagogy and research. Details

	Organizers
	Richard Gray Germanics University of Washington Nicholas Halmi English and Comparative Literature University of Washington Gary Handwerk English and Comparative Literature University of Washington Michael Rosenthal Philosophy University of Washington
	Visiting Speakers
	Nora Alter German, Film & Media Studies University of Florida Christoph Bode Modern English Literature University of Munich Georg Braungart German Literature University of Tübingen Jeffrey Bub Philosophy University of Maryland David Clark English & Cultural Studies McMaster University Michael Forster Philosophy University of Chicago Beth Lord Philosophy University of Dundee John Lyons French University of Virginia Tommaso Pierini Philosophy Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Robert Pippin Philosophy University of Chicago Forest Pyle English University of Oregon Tilottama Rajan English; Theory & Criticism University of Western Ontario Alexander Schlutz English City University of New York Klaus Vieweg Philosophy Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Wilhelm Vosskamp German Studies University of Cologne Wolfgang Welsch Philosophy Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

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