Eccentric Primitivisms

Description

Eccentric Primitivisms is a workshop featuring speakers from Johns Hopkins and beyond with a keynote address by Simon Gikandi, professor and chair of English at Princeton University.

Monday, April 4

• 10 a.m. - noon: Opening remarks and session 1 with Alys Moody, Rafael Cardoso, and Václac Paris
• 1 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.: Session 2 with Laura Di Bianco, Michael Kunichika, Joyce Cheng, and Marina Bedran
• 2:45 - 3:15 p.m.: Coffee break
• 3:15 - 4:15 p.m.: Roundtable on Samuel Spinner's Jewish Primitivism with Ben Etherington, Rochelle Tobias, Samuel Spinner, and Douglas Mao
• 4:30 - 4 p.m.: Keynote lecture, "Primitivism Against Primitivism"

Tuesday, April 5

• 10 a.m. - noon: Session 3 and concluding discussion with Sophia Shoulson, Sarah Warren, Samuel Spinner, and Ben Etherington

This event is sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Western Sydney University, the Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish, and the Departments of Comparative Thought & Literature, English, History, History of Art, and Modern Languages & Literatures.