Cambridge University
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Friday 19-21 September 2003
In(ter)discipline
New Languages for Criticism
This conference aims to stimulate discussion about the kinds of critical languages used within the scholarly as well as the public sphere, and the linguistic challenge that represents an increasingly interdisciplinary research culture within the modern Humanities.
Opening Lecture Friday 19 September 2003:
Mieke Bal: Close Reading and the Language of Affect
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September 2003:
Gillian Beer: Island Encounters
Malcolm Bowie: Is Music Criticism Criticism?
Gabriele Brandstetter: The Discourse of Performance-Analysis
Elisabeth Bronfen: Describing the Visual
Scott Burnham: Musical Writing
Friedrich Kittler: Ulysses Bow: Poetics of Life and Death
Laurence Kramer: Interdisciplinarity and The Music Itself
Beate Perrey: On Borges Blindness and Giacomettis Eyes
Adam Phillips: Nuisance-Value
Peter Szendy: Orfeos Indiscipline: Echoing the Mortal Ear
John Berger & Simon McBurney on Ideas and Performance
Closing Lecture Sunday 21 September 2003 by John Tusa