WAK E FO R ES T U N IVER S ITY

S YM PO S IU M

UNCERTAIN ARRIVALS: FORMS

the tragedy of the commons

forms of thought,

schrodinger’s cat

forms of thought, life,

human ice flow

forms of thought, life, and emergence

I believe that one can formulate the emergence of the classical ‘path’ of a particle pregnantly as follows: the ‘path’ comes into

being only because we observe it. werner heisenberg

9:00-9:30 a.m.

Registration and BreakfastGallery Level, Reynolda House Museum of American Art

9:45-11:00 a.m.Panel 1 | VOLATILITY: The Art of IndeterminacyPanel Chair: Rekha Rosha,Department of English, The College of St. Rose

Larry Lavender, Department of Dance, UNC-Greensboro, “Shared Power Relations in Sociographic Performance”

Christina Tsoules Soriano, Department of Dance, Wake Forest University, “Drawing Voices” (co-performer)

Roymieco Carter, Department of Art, Wake Forest University, “Drawing Voices” (co-performer)

11:00-11:45 a.m.

Gallery Event Guided tours of the Reynolda House

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Lunch Conference participants and attendees can purchase lunch in Reynolda Village or on the Wake Forest campus.

1:45-3:00 p.m.Panel 2 | ADAPTATION: The Uncertainties of Biology, Society, and CommercePanel Chair: Andrew Burkett, Department of English, Wake Forest University

Tyler Curtain, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Contingency Models: Biology and Theory”

Jeanne Simonelli, Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, “Desde Abajo al la Izquierda” (From the Bottom and to the Left)

Raymond Malewitz, Department of English, Yale University, “Rugged Consumerism and the Financial Crisis”

3:00-3:15 p.m.Break

3:15-3:45 p.m.

Opening Address

Introductory Remarks, Phil Archer, Director of Public Programs, Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Herman Rapaport, “Thinking Uncertainty”Department of English, Wake Forest University

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Wine and Cheese Reception

The Reynolda House Grounds

PR O GR AM

Friday: 9/24

We recognize that the economic outlook remains unusually

uncertainben bernanke

Panel 1

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VOLATILITY

Panel 1 | VOLATILITY: The Art of Indeterminacy

Panel Chair: Rekha Rosha, Department of English, The College of St. Rose

Larry Lavender, Department of Dance, UNC-Greensboro, “Shared Power Relations in Sociographic Performance”

Christina Tsoules Soriano, Department of Dance, Wake Forest University, “Drawing Voices” (co-performer)

Roymieco Carter, Department of Art, Wake Forest University, “Drawing Voices” (co-performer)

The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny

that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed,

that it must be constantly won

simone de beauvoir

Panel 2

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ADAPTATION

Panel 2 | AD APTATION: The Uncertainties of Biology, Society, and Commerce

Panel Chair: Andrew Burkett, Department of English, Wake Forest University

Tyler Curtain, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Contingencies Models: Biology and Theory”

Jeanne Simonelli, Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, “Desde Abajo al la Izquierda”

Raymond Malewitz, Department of English, Yale University, “Rugged Consumerism and the Financial Crisis”

Opening Address | Thinking Uncertainty

Introductory Remarks, Phil Archer, Director of Public Programs, Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Herman Rapaport, Department of English, Wake Forest University, “Thinking Uncertainty”

9:00-9:30 a.m.

Registration and BreakfastGallery Level, Reynolda House Museum of American Art

9:45-11:00 a.m.Panel 3 | CHANCE: Unpredictability in Culture, Economics, and PoliticsPanel Chair: Ryan Shirey, Department of English, Wake Forest University

Jessica Richard, Department of English, Wake Forest University, “Cheating and Calculation in Eighteenth-Century England”

Ioanna Zlateva, Department of English, Duke University, “Strange Investments in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey”

David Coates, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University, “The Certainty of Uncertainty in a World of Unregulated Markets”

11:00-11:45 a.m. Gallery Event Guided tours of the Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s current exhibition, “Virtue, Vice, Wisdom, & Folly: The Moralizing Tradition in American Art”

12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch Conference participants and attendees can purchase lunch in Reynolda Village or on the Wake Forest campus.

1:45-3:00 p.m.Panel 4 | CRISIS: Emergence, Contingency, and ModernityPanel Chair: Scott Klein, Department of English, Wake Forest University

Morna O'Neill, Department of Art History, Wake Forest University, “Dealer, Collector, Philanthropist: The Paradox of Hugh Lane in America”

Carter Smith, Department of English, Washington University in St. Louis, “Late Modernism: Risking the Voice”

Bruce Barnhart, Department of English, Wake Forest University, “Jazz Performance and the Temporality of Immanent Emergence”

3:00-3:15 p.m.Break

3:15-3:45 p.m.Keynote Address Introductory Remarks, Page West, Director, BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism

Neil De Marchi, “Bubbling Away: Misplaced Certainties and Financial Crises”Department of Economics, Duke University

4:00-5:00 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception

The Reynolda House Grounds

PR O GR AM

SATURDAY: 9/25

God does not play dice with the universe albert einstein

Einstein, don’t tell God what to do neils bohr

Panel 3

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CHANCE

Panel 3 | C HANCE: Unpredictability in Culture, Economics, and Politics

Panel Chair: Ryan Shirey, Department of English, Wake Forest University

Jessica Richard, Department of English, Wake Forest University, “Cheating and Calculation in Eighteenth-Century England”

Ioanna Zlateva, Department of English, Duke University, “Strange Investments in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey”

David Coates, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University, “The Certainty of Uncertainty in a World of Unregulated Markets”

andy warhol’s “five deaths”

what is the role of accident in matters of

form?

Panel 4

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CRISIS

Panel 4 | C RISIS: Contingency, Emergence, and Modernity

Panel Chair: Scott Klein, Department of English, Wake Forest University

Morna O’Neill, Department of Art History, Wake Forest University, “Dealer, Collector, Philanthropist, The Paradox of Hugh Lane in America”

Carter Smith, Department of English, Washington University in St. Louis, “Late Modernism: Risking the Voice”

Bruce Barnhart, Department of English, Wake Forest University, “Jazz Performance and the Temporality of Immanent Emergence”

Keynote Address | Bubbling Away: Misplaced Certainties and Financial Crises

Introductory Remarks, Page West, Director, BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism

Neil De Marchi, Department of Economics, Duke University, “Bubbling Away: Misplaced Certainties and Financial Crises”

S PO N S O R S | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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