Freud and the Humanities
This landmark conference features lectures from international scholars on Freud and his impact on the humanities.
No registration needed for any of these talks. All talks are free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
Pre-registration required only for the lunches and concert.
Friday, October 27
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
9:00 - 9:30am
Welcome and Introduction
Michael Steinberg, Director, Cogut Center for the Humanities
Session I
9:30am - 12noon
Chair - Rey Chow, Brown University
Freud, Jews and Other Humanists
Scott Spector, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Space of Sublimation in the Jewish Law: Freud's Moses and Monotheism Revisited
Tracy McNulty, Cornell University
Sigmund Freud: Savant or Charlatan?
Peter Kramer, Brown University
12 noon - 1:30pm
Lunch break**
Alumnae Hall Auditorium
Session II
1:30 - 4:00pm
Chair - Bernard Reginster, Brown University
Rebecca West at Nuremberg: Guilt after Freud
Lyndsey Stonebridge, University of East Anglia
Trauma, Witnessing and the Sublime
Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University
War and Projection
James Hopkins, King's College London
Student Session
4:30 - 6:30pm
Chair - Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Brown University
Towards a Tentative Theory of Fanfiction
Tasha Chemel
Original Drive
Jonathan Coleman
The Uncanny Re-Pression of Transference in Analysis
Jessica Laser
Show Me Yours: The Perversion and Politics of Cyber-Exhibitionism
Julie Levin Russo
Saturday, October 28
Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106
Session I
10:00am - 12 noon
Chair - Arlene Keizer, Brown University
Roman Fever: Freud Looks at Italy
Mary Bergstein, Rhode Island School of Design
Fabric, Skin, Honte-ologie
Ranjana Khanna, Duke University
12 noon - 1:30pm
Lunch break**
Smith-Buonanno Hall Lounge
Session II
1:30 - 3:30pm
Chair - Lynne Joyrich, Brown University
Josephine Baker: Psychoanalysis and the Colonial Fetish
Anne Cheng, Princeton University
The Real and the Uncanny of the Dream of Cinema: Traumatic Performance as Reenactment and Possession in Fiction and Documentary Film
Elizabeth Cowie, University of Kent
Panel Discussion
4:00 - 5:30pm
Saturday, October 28
The Hope Club
Dreams Concert**
9:00pm
A multi-media piece for piano and voice, featuring pianist Thomas Bagwell and singers Meagan Miller and Richard Cox.
**The lunches and concert are free of charge but require pre-registration to attend. To register, please contact the Cogut Center at 401/863-6070 or Humanities_Center@brown.edu.
October 26-28
The Freud Film Festival presents: Spellbound, Mulholland Drive, The Seven Percent Solution, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Persona and Princess Tam-Tam.
For descriptions, times and venues, click Freud Film Festival.
