Saturday, June 8

8 a.m.–9:15 a.m.

Registration and Breakfast

9:15 a.m.–10:15 a.m.

Panel 1A — Of Music
Ault Evers (located upstairs in the Meem Library)

• Marja Karelia, Simon Fraser University
  “Kreutzer Sonata: Expressions of Human Anguish in Music, Literature and Beyond”
• Alex Earich, St. John’s College
  “Schopenhauer, Rossini, and Musical Imitation of Concepts”

Panel 1B — Technology: Nature, Philosophy
Senior Common Room (located upstairs in the Peterson Student Center)

• Fyza Parviz, Stanford University
  “Henry David Thoreau’s Romantic Imagination of the Telegraph Harp”
• Devin Ketch, St. John’s College
  “The Spider’s Web Informs the Bee’s Hive: The Baconian Project and its Aristotelian Foundations”

10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m.– 12:15 p.m.

Panel 2A — Logic, Knowledge, and Being
Ault Evers (located upstairs in the Meem Library)

• Shahrane Karim, St. John’s College
  “Evaluating Kant’s Copernican Revolution”
• Daniel Brooks, St. John’s College
  “Unity in Plato’s Philebus”
• Jay Hennicke, St. John’s College
  “Nagarjuna’s Lotus and the Disjunctive Solution”

Panel 2B — Memory and Memoir
Senior Common Room (located upstairs in the Peterson Student Center)

• Melissa Berry, Mt. St. Mary’s University
  “The Current Use of Intersectionality as an Approach to the Memoir and Its Contents: ‘Getting Well at the Stillwell and Still Well’”
• Diana Putterman, Dominican University of California
  “Blanquiando: My Mother’s Passing”
• Tim Whalen, St. John’s College
  “Exploring the Return from War through Poetry“\

Panel 2C — The Modern Individual
Meem 202/203

• Stacie Gin, Simon Fraser University
  “My Kafka: Internal Poetry as Derivatives of Prose”
• Gabriel Monar, St. John’s College
  “Melville’s Starbuck: The Nature of His Virtue”
• Christopher McBride, Stanford University
  “‘He must get back to where he had been before’: Death as Dreamlike Phenomenon in Eudora Welty’s Death of a Traveling Salesman”

12:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m.

Lunch

1:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m.

Panel 3A — Women in History
Ault Evers (located upstairs in the Meem Library)

• Lynette Yetter, Reed College
  “Searching for Coya Queens in the List of Twelve Inka Kings”
• Rachelle Burnside, Stanford University
  “Iranian Women Writers and the Navigation of Confinement”
• Kim Gudmundson, Stanford University
  “The Unsung Heroes of Cannery Row”

Panel 3B — Science and Technology
Senior Common Room (located upstairs in the Peterson Student Center)

• Danny Chang, Stanford University
  “16th Century Ship Building and the Humanist Tradition”
• Kris Workman, University of Washington, Tacoma
  “Balancing Economic and Social Values to Implement a Comprehensive Data Policy”
• Neil Ramiller, Reed College
  “Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society and the Making of Modern Science”

Panel 3C — Buddhist Views
Meem 202/203

• Jill Cowley, St. John’s College
  “Engaging with Text as Buddhist Practice: Suggestions from the Early Buddhist Discourses”
• Joshua Sturgill, St. John’s College
  “In Search of the Endless Answer: Dōgen’s Tao of Inquiry”
• James Karlin, St. John’s College
  “Asceticism, Marriage, and 25 Years of Lovemaking: The role of Tapas Kālidāsa’s Kumārasaṃbhava”

3:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 p.m.– 5:15 p.m.

Panel 4A — Art and Aesthetics
Ault Evers (located upstairs in the Meem Library)

• Kimberly Serratos, St. John’s College
  “Schopenhauer’s Sublime in Caspar David Friedrich”
• Verna Gene, Simon Fraser University
  “Landscapes: Technology + Art Without Frontiers”
• Maura Wilson, Dominican University of California
  “The Iconography of the Honey Bee in Western Art”

Panel 4B — Experience and Structure
Senior Common Room (located upstairs in the Peterson Student Center)

• Sam Weaver, St. John’s College
  “Milton’s Adventurous Song: The Role of Place in the Structure of Paradise Lost”
• Kelsey Hennegen, St. John’s College
  “The Irreducible Self: Liberation in the Aesthetic and the Art of Lingering”
• Steven Peterson, St. John’s College
  “Greek Without Greeks: Competing Notions of Authenticity in the Pronunciation of Classical Languages”

Sunday, June 9

8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m.

Breakfast

9:30 a.m.–11 a.m.

Panel 5A — The Life of Education
Ault Evers (located upstairs in the Meem Library)

• Jacob Goodine, St. John’s College
  “Five Years On, One Johnnie Alumni Group’s Continuing Dialogue”
• Martha Franks, St. John’s College
  “Joining the Global Great Conversation”
• Abram Trosky, St. John’s College
  “Citizens After All: The Role of the Liberal Arts in Graduate Military Education”

Panel 5B — Politics and Society
Senior Common Room (located upstairs in the Peterson Student Center)

• Holly Duffy, St. John’s College
  “The Conversations We Don’t Have: How Can We Critique Our Institutions”
• Michael Breger, Stanford University
  “Trousers That Are Not Trousers: The Primacy of Materiality in Balzac’s Paris”
• Jenny Harris, St. John’s College
  “Roman Holiday: Sympathy and Reform in Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life”

Panel 5C — Fictions and Modernity
Meem 202/203

• Mary Lou Anderson, Reed College
  “The Snow was General”
• Anthony Eagan, St. John’s College
  “An Outpost of Conviction: Kafka and the Crisis of Authority”
• Kanishka Marasinghe, St. John’s College
  “Time, History, and the Diaphanous Mystery of the Self in Jorge Luis Borges’ The Garden of the Forking Paths”

11:10 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Closing Session
Ault Evers (located upstairs in the Meem Library)

12 p.m.

Optional No-host Lunch