Agenda

Emerging Disciplines II
Friday, February 25, 2011
Location: Kyle Morrow Room, 3rd Floor Fondren Library, Rice University

 

All talks will last 30 minutes. 

9:00: Opening remarks and welcome with Caroline Levander and Nicolas Shumway

9:15: Panel 1, Moderator: Sarah Whiting
            Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard University) "Knowledge Design"
            John J May (University of Toronto) "One Continuous Lie" (excerpts from The Control Papers)
                       
10:30: Break

10:45: Panel 2, Moderator: Richard Grandy
            Randolph Roth (Ohio State University) "Can We Learn to Play Well with Others? Enlisting the Humanities, the Sciences, and the Social Sciences in the Study of Violence"
            Liane Young (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "The Brain Behind the Moral Mind"

12:15: Lunch

1:30: Panel 3, Moderator: Mary Poovey
            Katherine Hayles (Duke University) " How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies"
Christopher McKenna (University of Oxford) "The Very, Very Long View: Reintegrating Corporate Strategy and History"

2:45: Break

3:00: Round table with symposium presenters (Moderator: Caroline Levander)

4PM: Symposium concludes.