8:15 Greetings: Daniel Herwitz and Marjorie Levinson
8:30 Introduction: Amanda Anderson, Johns Hopkins University and director, School of Criticism & Theory “Event, Practice, Institution”

9:00 Michael Warner, Yale University “Do Media Exist”
9:30 Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University “WG Sebald and the Narrative of Trauma”
10:00 Webb Keane, University of Michigan “Indexing Voice: A Morality Tale”
10:30-10:45 Q and A

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 Jonathan Culler, Cornell University “Rhythm and the Theory of the Lyric”
11:30 Diana Fuss, Princeton University “The Modern Aubade”
12:00 Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan “Ideas of Order: A Field Report”
12:30 Q and A

12:45-2:45 Board Meeting

3:00 Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan “The Human and the Floral”
3:30 Steve Nichols, Johns Hopkins University “Paris: Capital of the 14th Century”
4:00-4:15 Q and A

COFFEE BREAK

4:30 David Wellbery, University of Chicago “Cavell on Fraudulence”
5:00 Geoff Eley, University of Michigan “The Past under Erasure: History, Memory, and the Contemporary”
5:30-5:45 Q and A