Really looking forward to this… been promised a ‘sexy poster’ at some point, so this is just the text and details.

Anachronic Shakespeare

A Poetics and Theory Conference

February 24-February 25, 2012

New York University

Jurow Hall, Silver Center

100 Washington Square East

New York, NY 10003

Friday, February 24^th

10:00                    Welcome

10:15                    John Archer, Shakespeare’s Poor Beast (English, NYU)

11:45                    Stuart Elden, The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth (Geography, Durham University)

2:30                       Vike Plock, Made in Germany: Joyce Reading Goethe Reading Hamlet (English, University of Exeter)

3:45                       Rebecca Comay, Hamletizations (Benjamin, Schmitt…..) (Philosophy, University of Toronto)

5:30                       Keynote: Samuel Weber, Forgetting the Hobby-Horse: Hamlet Between Schmitt and Benjamin (Comparative Literature, Northwestern University)

6:30                      Response by Julia Lupton (English, UC Irvine)

Saturday, February 25^th

10:00                    Anselm Haverkamp, Life in the Sonnets: On Life’s Anachronic Nature (English, NYU)

11:15                    Julia Lupton, Softscapes: Shakespeare by Design (English, UC Irvine)

2:00                       Closing Roundtable

Sponsored by the DFG Graduiertenkolleg Lebensformen und Lebenswissen (Graduate Research Colloquium in Forms of Life and the Know-How of Living), the NYU Certificate in Poetics and Theory, and the NYU Comparative Literature Department.

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Conference organized by Elizabeth Bonapfel, Martin Harries, Anselm Haverkamp, and Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz