Glossing is a Glorious Thing: The Past, Present, and Future of Commentary
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Ave. @ 34th St
Room C201/C202
April 9-10, 2009
Keynote roundtable with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Avital Ronell, and Jesus Rodriguez Velasco
THURSDAY, APRIL 9
10.00-10.30: Opening Remarks
10.30-12.30: Session I
Praxis and Production
Chair: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
“Hypomnemata: The Commentary as Explanation and Cultivation”
Carsten Madsen, Aarhus University
“Willful Obscurity and the Scholarly Epic: Benjamin's Arcades Project and the Barricades”
H. Erik Butler, Emory University
“The Reconstructive Consequences of Agamben's Commentary on Romans”
William McClellan, Baruch College, CUNY
“Spice: Commentary as Geophilosophy”
Nicola Masciandaro, Brooklyn College, CUNY
12.30-1.30: Lunch Break
1.30-3.30: Session II
Affect and Authority
Chair: Dan Remein
“After Print: On the Biopolitical Marginalia of Affect and Attachment”
Nunzio D'Alessio, University of Texas at Austin
“Dreaming of/as Commentary”
Erin Labbie, Bowling Green State University
“Marginal Knowledge: Making the Unknown Known (or the Uncouth Couth) in Edmund
Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender”
Kathryn Vomero, New York University
“Commentary: Between In and Of.”
Anna Klosowska, Miami University of Ohio
3.30-4.00: Break
4.00-5.30: Session III
Veritas and Versification
Chair: Eileen A. Joy
“Reading Prynne: Commentary and Poem.”
Ryan Dobran, Brooklyn College, CUNY
“Auden's Politics of Commentary.”
Chinnie Si-Qin Ding, Harvard University
“Glossing Gloss and its Undertow”
John Wilkinson, University of Notre Dame
FRIDAY, APRIL 10
10:00-12:00: Session IV
Unconcealment and Understanding
Chair: Anna Klosowska
“Our Father: Simplicity and the Limits of Commentary”
Michael Moore, University of Iowa
“Poetic Accompaniment”
Kas Saghafi, University of Memphis
“Meaning in Heidegger and the Ringing Noise of Poetry”
Miles Hentrup, University of Oregon
“Affects and their Gravities: Commentary as a Capacity of Care”
Dan Remein, New York University
12:00-1:00: Lunch Break
1:00-3:00: Session V
Manicule and Margin
Chair: Jesús Rodríguez Velasco
“Inserted and Contrary Commentary in the Esopus moralisatus.”
Jacqueline De Weever, Brooklyn College, CUNY
“Manuscript Updating for the Printed Text: Glossing Ausiàs March in Sixteenth-Century Spain.”
Albert Lloret, The Johns Hopkins University
“History and Gloss in Alfonso X's General estoria.”
Erik Ekman, Michigan State University
“Glossing the Female Body-Holy: A Discussion of the Networks of Glossing and Meaning Production in Ancrene Riwle.”
Angela R. Bennett Segler, New York University
3:00-3:30: Break
3:30-5:30: Session VI
The Future of Commentary: A Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Nicola Masciandaro
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University
Avital Ronell, New York University
Jesús Rodríguez Velasco, Columbia University
Sponsored by:
The Graduate Center and the Ph.D. Program in English, The City University of New York
Brooklyn College, The City University of New York
Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary (http://glossator.org)
