Structures of Feeling
The Center/Clark Four-Part Yearlong Core Program for 2004-05
directed by
Susan McClary (Center & Clark Professor, 2004-05)

— Part 3: Temporalities —

May 20-21 , 2005– at the Clark Library


Friday, May 20 _______________________

9:30 A.M.

Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Session 1– Time and Narrative

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Lorna Clymer, California State University, Bakersfield
Repetition and Progress in Early Modern British Poetry

Meredith Marie Neuman, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Telling and Time: Ruptured Conversion Stories in Seventeenth-Century New England

12:00 P.M.

Lunch

1:30 P.M.

Session 2 – Sounding Brass and Symbols

Nina Treadwell, University of California, Santa Cruz
Changing Time: Temporal Perceptions in Medicean Musical Theater

Marc Vanscheeuwijck, University of Oregon
Composition, Performance, and Time: Acoustics and the Music of San Petronio

Susan McClary, UCLA
Doing the Time Warp: Contorted Temporalities in Seventeenth-Century Italian Music

4:30 P.M.

Reception

 

Saturday, May 21 _______________________

9:30 A.M.

Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Session 3 – Mathematics, Science, and Affect

Daniel Garber, Princeton University
Disciplining Feeling: the Seventeenth-Century Idea of a Mathematical Theory of the Emotions

Elizabeth McCartney, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Passions of the Soul: The Language of Political Contest in Seventeenth-Century France

Penelope Gouk, University of Manchester
Clockwork or Musical Instrument? Some English Theories of Mind-Body Interaction Before and After Descartes

1:00 P.M.

Lunch

2:00 P.M.

Session 4 – Being and Time

Ronald L. Martinez, Brown University
Ossuary and Wunderkammer: Baroque Accumulation and Rhetorical Time in Marino and Basile

Jonathan Post, UCLA
John Milton: Footloose in Paradise

Richard Leppert, University of Minnesota
Temporal Interventions: Modernity and the Presentation of the Self


 

 


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