POETRY, PHILOSOPHY, & THE FASCINATION OF FORM:
A SYMPOSIUM, UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
OCTOBER 21-23 2005
Symposium will include Papers, Talks, and Poetry Readings,
featuring an international list of Guest Speakers and Readers…
FRIDAY, OCT. 21
4:00 – 6:00 pm Registration, Opening Reception, & Welcome by Dean Voelker
6:00 – 7:00 John Hollander
7:00 – 8:00 Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich
SATURDAY, OCT. 22
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast & Welcome by President Harrison
9:00 – 9:45 Susan Howe
10:00 – 10:45 Vincent Colapietro
10:45 – 11:45 Dennis Barone, Richard Deming, and Gray Jacobik
11:45 – 12:30 Peter Hare
12:30 - 2:00 lunch
2:00 – 2:45 Simon Critchley
2:45 – 3:30 Thomas Alexander
3:30 – 4:15 Paolo Valesio (with translator Graziella Sidoli)
4:45 – 5:30 Michael Burkard and Tryfon Tolides
5:30 – 6:30 Reception sponsored by Connecticut Poetry Society
6:30 – 7:30 Marjorie Perloff
SUNDAY, OCT. 23
8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45am Paul Mariani
10:00 – 10:45 Lisa Goldfarb
11:00 – 11:30 Christine Beck, James Finnegan
11:30 – 12:15 Jan Zwicky
12:15 - 1:30 lunch
1:30 – 2:15 Mahlon Barnes
2:15 – 3:00 Claire Gallou
3:00 – 4:30 Poetry in Foreign Languages
All events will be held at…
Hartford College for Women campus, in the Science Center,
corner of Asylum Ave & Elizabeth St, with parking entrance on Elizabeth St.
(1265 Asylum Avenue Hartford, CT 06105, phone: 860/768-5600)
Map: _http://www.hartford.edu/about/info.asp?item=driving_
(http://www.hartford.edu/about/info.asp?item=driving)
The Symposium is Free and Open to the Public.
Please Register by contacting Eileen Johnson at 860-768-4733.
Organizing Contacts:
Maria Frank,[log in to unmask] or Marcia Moen, [log in to unmask]
(mailto:[log in to unmask])
For more info, email Jim Finnegan at [log in to unmask]
(mailto:[log in to unmask])
Or by phone 860-508-2810
Full program details below...
FRIDAY, OCT. 21
4:00 – 6:00 pm Registration, Opening Reception, & Welcome by Dean Voelker
6:00 – 7:00 John Hollander
John Hollander has published several volumes of poetry including Picture
Window (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), The Figurehead (1999), Tesserae (1993), Selected
Poetry (1993), and Reflections on Espionage (1976). His seven books of
criticism include: The Work of Poetry (1997), Melodious Guile (1988), The Figure
of Echo (1981), Rhyme's Reason (1981), and Vision and Resonance (1975). He has
edited numerous books, among them Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to
Memorize (The Academy of American Poets and Books & Co./Turtle Point Press,
1996); The Library of America's two-volume anthology Nineteenth Century American
Poetry (1993); and The Essential Rossetti (1990). John Hollander's many
honors include the Bollingen Prize, the Levinson Prize, and the MLA Shaughnessy
Medal, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur
Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Chancellor of The
Academy of American Poets, he is currently the Sterling Professor of English
at Yale.
Reading a selection of poems
7:00 – 8:00 Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich
Katia Kapovich is a bilingual poet who writes in Russian and English. She
recently published a book of her poems in English, Gogol in Rome (Salt, 2004),
and her poems have appeared in the London Review of Books, The New Republic,
Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, and other journals. About this work, Billy
Collins has said "she can sway effortlessly from the most common detail into
zones of sheer imaginative wonder." Kapovich's Russian poetry has appeared in
translation in several anthologies. The Russian-born Kapovich belonged to a
literary dissident movement, emigrated from the USSR in 1990, and currently
lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she co-edits Fulcrum: An Annual of
Poetry and Aesthetics.
Philip Nikolayev lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, the poet
Katia Kapovich, and their daughter Sophia. His collection of poems, Monkey
Time, won the 2001 Verse Prize and was published by Verse Press in 2003. He
co-edits Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. His poems have also
appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, Grand Street, Harvard Review, The
Boston Globe, Verse, Stand, overland, Jacket, and many others across the
English-speaking world.
They will read a selection of poems and speak about editing the magazine
Fulcrum and the connections between poetry and philosophy.
8:00 Dinner (on your own); a list of local restaurants is available at the
book table.
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SATURDAY, OCT. 22
8:00 – 9:00am Continental breakfast & Welcome by President Harrison
9:00 – 9:45 Susan Howe
Susan Howe is the Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry and the Humanities, and
State University of New York Distinguished Professor of English at the
University at Buffalo. Her most recent books of poems are Pierce-Arrow (New
Directions, 1999) and The Midnight (New Directions, 2005.)
A Reading from PIERCE-ARROW, a recent collection of my poems that among
other things concerns manuscripts of the American philosopher Charles Sanders
Peirce.
10:00 – 10:45 Vincent Colapietro
Vincent Colapietro is a Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State
University (University Park Campus). His historical areas of research include
American thought and culture, with special emphasis on the pragmatist
movement, while his systematic ones include aesthetics, semiotics, and the philosophy
of literature. His publications include Peirce's Approach to the Self, A
Glossary of Semiotics, & Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom. He is at present
finishing a book on pragmatism and psychoanalysis.
"Santayana on the Senses of Beauty: A Poet’s Philosopher’s Poetics"
Given the principal focus of the earliest phase of his literary career,
George Santayana was even as late as the threshold of the twentieth century
better known as a poet than as a philosopher. His first philosophical publication,
A Sense of Beauty: Being an Outline of Aesthetic Theory, was a significant
contribution to philosophical aesthetics, though a contribution deeply
informed by a unique artistic sensibility. In Reason in Art (volume four of The Life
of Reason), Interpretations of Poetry & Religion, and Three Philosophical
Poets: Lucretius, Dante, & Goethe, Santayana developed and deepened his nuanced
account of poetic discourse. In addition to the finely crafted poems
composed in his youth, there is a narratively compelling novel written in his
maturity, The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel (a work in which the
genres of memoir and novel, of a distinctive form of autobiography and the
uniquely modern form of fictional narrative, are self-consciously fused
together). The letters of Wallace Stevens as well as the recently published ones of
Robert Lowell reveal that Santayana was, early and late, a poet’s philosopher,
a philosophical author to whom working poets consistently turned for
inspiration as much as insight, for poetic ideas as much as philosophical guidance.
Why such important poets as Stevens and Lowell were so drawn to the figure and
writings of Santayana is a question worthy of careful, focused
consideration. In addressing just this question in my presentation, I hope to illuminate
Santayana’s poetics, on the one side, and facets of Stevens’ and Lowell’s
poetry otherwise left obscure, on the other. The subtle interplay between the
poetic and the philosophical is nowhere more manifest and indeed legible than
in the complex relationship between this poetic philosopher and these
philosophical poets. The senses of beauty, the irreducible multiplicity of arresting
forms (ones having the power to seize and hold that unique species of human
attentiveness identifiable as aesthetic engagement), are celebrated in various
ways in George Santayana’s philosophical texts and in effect exemplified in
the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell.
10:45 – 11:45 Dennis Barone, Richard Deming, and Gray Jacobik
Dennis Barone is a Professor of English and Chair of the English Department
at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of
three books of short fiction: Abusing the Telephone (Drogue Press, 1994), The
Returns (Sun & Moon Press, 1996), and Echoes (Potes & Poets Press, 1997).
Echoes received the 1997 America Award for most outstanding book of fiction by a
living American writer. He is also the author of two novellas, Temple of the
Rat (Left Hand Books, 2000) and God’s Whisper (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). A third
novella, North Arrow, is forthcoming from Green Integer and a hybrid work of
memoir, prose poetry, and short fiction entitled Precise Machine from Quale
Press. He is editor of Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), and author of the collection of short
prose pieces, The Walls of Circumstance (Avec Books, 2004). Left Hand Books
published his selected poems, entitled Separate Objects, in 1998. His essays on
American literature and culture have appeared in journals such as American
Studies, Critique, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, and the
Review of Contemporary Fiction. A graduate of Bard College, he received his
Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, and
in 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished Fulbright lecturing
award, in the Netherlands.
A Reading: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Blooming Shoots of Genius
Richard Deming is a poet and critic whose poems have appeared in Field,
Sulfur, Colorado Review, Quarter After Eight, Indiana Review, Mandorla,
Kiosk, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology Great American
Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, edited by David Lehman. He is the
author of Somewhere Hereabouts, published in the A.bacus series by Potes
and Poets Press. Currently he is a lecturer for the English Department
at Yale University. With Nancy Kuhl he edits Phylum Press.
Reading a selection of poems
Gray Jacobik’s books are The Double Task (The Juniper Prize, U. of
Massachusetts Press), The Surface of Last Scattering (X. J. Kennedy Prize, Texas
Review Press), Brave Disguises (AWP Poetry Series Award, U. of Pittsburg Press).
She is a University Professor Emeritus from Eastern Connecticut State
University and serves on the graduate faculty of The Stonecoast MFA, University of
Southern Maine.
Reading a selection of poems
11:45 – 12:30 Peter Hare
Peter H. Hare: SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
at the University at Buffalo, Peter Hare is co-editor of the Transactions of
the C. S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy,
vice-president of the William James Society, past president of the Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy and of the Peirce Society. Recent
publications include Naturalism and Rationality (co-editor) and articles on William
James and John Dewey in Blackwell's Companion to Epistemology.
2:00 – 2:45 Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley is professor of philosophy at the New School for Social
Research, New York. He is author and editor of many books, most recently Very
Little...Almost Nothing (Second Edition, Routledge, 2004) and Things Merely Are
- Philosophy in the poetry of Wallace Stevens.
Simon will be talking about the philosophical significance and challenge to
philosophy that can be found in the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Fernando
Pessoa. His focus will be the relation of thought to things and the problem of
meaning.
"Misunderstandings Between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul
Weiss"
2:45 – 3:30 Thomas Alexander
Thomas Alexander grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where his father taught
philosophy at the University of New Mexico. Instead of going to Viet Nam,
Thomas was lucky enough to go to graduate school at Emory University where he
(finally) earned his Ph.D. in 1984, writing on John Dewey's theory of art,
experience and nature. His teaching experience at that point included three
years at the New Mexico State Penitentiary, then recovering from the worst riot
in American history. The following year he joined the faculty at Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale, where he is now professor. He teaches courses
on American philosophy, Ancient philosophy, and a survey of world humanities.
He lives in the woods by a lake and enjoys the company of his two teenage
sons when he can.
Presentation: "Three Faces of Form: Classical, Buddhist, and Ecological"
The western concern with aesthetic form derives from the Greeks, though it
is often misunderstood as a static formalism. I will begin by trying to
retrieve the Greek understanding of form as "self-limiting or controlled power
achieving an end," using examples from Homer, Sappho, and Plato. I will then turn
to a very different approach found in the Buddhist teaching: "form is
emptiness; emptiness is form." Here, form becomes the "suchness" of an
interconnected and transitory world, which in aesthetics comes to be expressed in the
Japanese ideas of wabi and sabi. I will use examples from Chinese and Japanese
poetry to illustrate. Finally, I will propose an "ecological" conception of
form as a dynamic pattern of creative growth that is connected with the
environing world. In particular I will urge that recovering an aesthetic experience
grounded in the natural world is a necessary condition of developing our
capacity to care for it. I will use examples from Mary Oliver's poetry to clarify
this idea.
3:30 – 4:15 Paolo Valesio (with translator Graziella Sidoli)
Paolo Valesio joined the Department of Italian at Columbia University, where
he became the Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor in Italian Literature in 2005,
after retiring as an emeritus professor from Yale University, where he taught
for more than a quarter century. The author of numerous critical essays and
articles, Valesio has published five books of criticism, fourteen collections
of poetry, two novels, one collection of short stories, a novella, and a drama
in verse which has been staged in Italy. He founded and directed the journal
Yale Italian Poetry (YIP) which will now be published at Columbia University
and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia
University with a new title, Italian Poetry Review.
Paolo Valesio will read some of his poems interspersed with and preceded by
some short comments. The title of his reading is “Beyond beyond” (part of a
Shakespeare line), and the main theme both of the poetry and of the comments
will be the relationship between poetry and the sacred. Valesio will be
accompanied by his principal translator, Graziella Sidoli, who will be reading her
English translations of his work.
Graziella Sidoli is the founder and editor of PolyText (a journal featuring
distinguished Italian poets in translation), is a scholar and translator of
F.T. Marinetti's lesser known short stories collection Novelle colle labbra
tinte. She is presently Chair of Modern and Classical Languages, at Convent of
the Sacred Heart Independent School for Girls, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
4:45 – 5:30 Tryfon Tolides and Michael Burkard
Tryfon Tolides was born in Korifi, Greece, and now lives in Farmington, CT.
He holds academic degrees in music and creative writing. He is the recipient
of various poetry awards including, most recently, the National Poetry
Series. His poems have appeared in America magazine, Atlanta Review, Worcester
Review, and elsewhere. His forthcoming book of poems, An Almost Pure Empty
Walking, will be published by Penguin in 2006.
Reading a selection of poems.
Michael Burkard has published two collections of poetry with Sarabande
Books, Unsleeping (2001) and Entire Dilemma (1998). W.W. Norton published My
Secret Boat (A Notebook of Prose and Poems) in 1990. He has received a Whiting
Writers’ Award, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award,
and two grants from both the New York State Foundation for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Arts at various colleges and universities, most
recently the University of Louisville, LeMoyne College, and Syracuse University.
During the 1990s he has also worked as an alcoholism counselor, particularly
with children whose lives have been impacted by alcoholism.
Reading a selection of poems
5:30 – 6:30 Reception sponsored by Connecticut Poetry Society
6:30 – 7:30 Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie Perloff is Sadie D. Patek Professor Emerita at Stanford University
and currently Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Southern California.
She teaches courses and writes on twentieth—and now twenty-first—century
poetry and poetics, both Anglo-American and from a Comparatist perspective, as
well as on intermedia and the visual arts. Her first three books dealt with
individual poets—Yeats, Robert Lowell, and Frank O’Hara; she then published
The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (1981), a book that has gone
through a number of editions, and led to her extensive exploration of avant-garde
art movements in The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the
Language of Rupture (1986, new edition, 1994), and subsequent books (13 in all).
Wittgenstein’s Ladder brought philosophy into the mix and Perloff has
recently published her cultural memoir The Vienna Paradox (2004), which has been
widely discussed. She has been a frequent reviewer for periodicals from TLS and
The Washington Post to all the major scholarly journals, and she has
lectured at most major universities in the U.S. and at European, Asian, and Latin
American universities and festivals. Perloff has held Guggenheim, NEH, and
Huntington fellowships, served on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Humanities
Center, and will be President of the Modern language Association in 2006. She
is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
"Sound Scraps, Vision Scraps": Interpreting and Overinterpreting Paul Celan"
From Heidegger, who attended Celan's 1967 reading at Freiburg and invited
him to visit his Hütte, to Gadamer, Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, and later
American theorists, Celan has become an icon for post-structuralist philosophers,
the poet whose lyric embodies post-World War II doctrines of speech, silence,
and the nature of writing. But in thus treating Celan's lyric hermeneutically,
its poeticity is curiously underplayed. The what of Celan (allegorical
readings of individual words and phrases have been endless) is well understood,
but the how remains a mystery. It is that how I wish to discuss here.
(Note: I will probably bring in Wittgenstein as a counter-philosopher who
can help us contra Derrida's "Shibboleth" and related treatments of Celan).
8:00 Dinner (on your own); a list of local restaurants is available at the
book table.
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SUNDAY, OCT. 23
8:00 – 9:00 am Continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 Paul Mariani
Paul Mariani, an award-winning poet, biographer of William Carlos Williams
and Robert Lowell, and critic, holds a Chair in English at Boston College. A
former professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, he has
lectured widely across the country and lives in Montague, Massachusetts.
Paul Mariani will read his poetry, accompanying it with observations and
glosses. His title is: "The Refusal of Answers to Answer Anything at All: Notes
Towards an American Sublime"
10:00 – 10:45 Lisa Goldfarb
Lisa Goldfarb is on the faculty of the Gallatin School of New York
University where she also chairs the Writing Program, and teaches a range of
interdisciplinary and writing courses, among them “Sound and Sense” and “Wallace
Stevens and the Twentieth Century.” She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her publications
include essays on Paul Valéry and Wallace Stevens in journals such as The
Romanic Review, Journal of Modern Literature, and The Wallace Stevens Journal.
She is currently at work on a book entitled, “The Figure Concealed”: Valéryan
Music in the Poetry and Poetics of Wallace Stevens.
In "'Un Feu Distinct': Music and Philosophy in Valéry’s Poetics," I aim to
contribute to the ongoing interdisciplinary conversation about Valéry’s work
by addressing the creative tension between Valéry’s philosophic interests and
his musical poetics. I will examine how he builds his critique of philosophy
into his musical-poetic theory and, further, discuss how this theory enables
him to represent “L’Être vivant et pensant” in his poetry. The first half of
the paper will address the philosophic underpinning of Valéry’s poetics; the
second will be devoted to a close reading of “Un Feu Distinct.”
11:00 – 11:39 Christine Beck and James Finnegan
Christine Beck is an attorney and Associate Professor of Legal Studies at
the University of Hartford. She began writing poetry five years ago after
attending a Wesleyan Writers Conference. Her poems have been published in
Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge, Grayson Press, 2003, Rosebud Magazine, Passager,
and Woman’s Wisdom. She is co-director of the Greater Hartford Chapter of the
Connecticut Poetry Society. She is also a regular participant in summer poetry
workshops at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, where she has
learned both the craft of poetry and the soul work of giving oneself over with
abandon to love the poet in all of us.
Christine Beck will read poems from her collection entitled Secondhand
Smoke. These poems explore the experience of being apart from, yet firmly
entrenched in, a violent world. From living with a Vietnam War veteran to being in
London during a terrorist bombing, she brings a female sensibility to issues of
war and peace. She will also briefly comment on the relationship between
feminist ethics and her work.
James Finnegan works in the field of insurance for financial institutions.
His poetry has been published in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review,
Southern Review and many other magazines. He publishes the poetry of others as
Plinth Books (a literary press) and Folded Gallery (a sporadically published
journal). He founded and manages a poetry discussion listserv called the
New-Poetry List and he co-developed with Hendree Milward a web-radio project
LitSation.com, due to launch in the fall of 2005. He reads philosophy
unsystematically but with an eye for those ideas that are more poetry than prose.
A Reading with Aphoristic Fits: ‘Conjectures at Random (about the Greatest
Things)’
11:30 – 12:15 Jan Zwicky
Jan Zwicky's books include Wittgenstein Elegies (Brick, 1986), The New Room
(Coach House, 1989), Lyric Philosophy (UTP, 1992), and Songs for
Relinquishing the Earth (Cashion, 1996; Brick, 1998), which won the Governor General's
Award in 1999. Wisdom and Metaphor was published by Gaspereau Press in 2003,
Robinson's Crossing by Brick Books in 2004, and Thirty-Seven Small Songs and
Thirteen Silences appeared from Gaspereau in 2005.
Zwicky has also published widely as an essayist on issues in music, poetry,
philosophy, and the environment. A native of Alberta, she is currently living
on Vancouver Island where she teaches in the Philosophy Department at the
University of Victoria.
Her Subject: "Mathematical Analogy and Metaphorical Insight"
1:30 – 2:15 Mahlon Barnes
Mahlon Barnes is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of
Hartford. His concerns are: Ethics, Ancient Greek philosophy, 20th Century
philosophy, and Pragmatism.
"Henri Bergson: the superabundance of the real"
A central aspect of Bergson’s work is the critique of our tendency to
confuse our conceptual representations of the world with the lived experience that
they are used to simplify. The result is a world-view that minimizes the
importance of human life.
Among the characteristics of our experience are: 1) The presence of
qualitative features that could not be reduced to quantity. 2) The “interpenetration”
of the various aspects of experience, namely their lack of definite
boundaries and their tendency to connect with one another in ways that cannot be
described as simply mixing or merging. 3) The inescapable temporality of our
experience. Conceiving time on the model of space is useful for many purposes,
but when that is done the result is an abstraction, not an experienced
reality. 4) The “superabundance” of the real, as being incapable of being
captured in any conceptual system.
One of the most important results of Bergson’s reconstruction of philosophy
is that it shows that esthetic experience has a vital role in human life.
2:15 – 3:00 Claire Gallou
Claire Gallou is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures at the College of the Holy Cross. She has just
submitted her dissertation, entitled "A Virgin's Lovers: James Merrill, Stéphane
Mallarmé and the Symbolist Quest" for the completion of her PhD in
Comparative Literature at UCLA. With the guidance of mentors Stephen Yenser and Michael
Heim, she is working on the translation of Merrill's poems into French, and
on a book exploring Merrill's link to symbolism in general and Mallarmé in
particular. She has earned the French title of Agrégée in English letters.
Make a Wish: The Effect of Language in Stéphane Mallarmé's and James
Merrill's Poems.
The combination of absolute control and maximum effect (l'effet) in an ideal
poetic form provided the leader of the French symbolist movement, Stéphane
Mallarmé, with the key to what he called pure notions, pure language, a way to
express the otherwise ineffable. Yet in order to reach the effect he sought,
he had to let language speak beyond its signified, and how to liberate
language while keeping complete control over it?
Almost a century later, James Merrill, an American poet fond of Mallarmé's
work, used many of Mallarmé's techniques, so that their works display
sometimes uncanny similarities. Yet one thing Merrill did not keep: the wish for
perfection. In fact, for Merrill imperfection was the key to pure symbolist
poems, and this presentation will show how Merrill may have more easily achieved
the symbolism Mallarmé sought, thanks to a touch of imperfection.
3:00 – 4:30 Poetry in Foreign Languages
A recitation of the work of poets from distant and near times and lands.
Among the languages included are: Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Polish,
Croatian, Japanese, Hindi, Tamil, Italian, German, and Portuguese. For each
poem an English rendition will be provided.
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This symposium is dedicated to Alfredo de Palchi on his eightieth birthday
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All events will be held at…
Hartford College for Women campus, in the Science Center,
corner of Asylum Ave & Elizabeth St., with parking entrance
on Elizabeth St.
_http://www.hartford.edu/about/info.asp?item=driving_
(http://www.hartford.edu/about/info.asp?item=driving)
The Symposium is Free and Open to the Public.
Please Register by contacting Eileen Johnson at 860-768-4733.
Organizing Contacts:
Maria Frank
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Maria Esposito Frank is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the
University of Hartford. She is the author of a book on Fifteenth-century Humanism
and several essays on Medieval and Renaissance topics.
Marcia Moen
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Marcia Moen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Hartford. She came to philosophy with backgrounds in mathematics and in
French literature. She has written on Kant, on C. S. Peirce, and on feminist
thought
For more info, email Jim Finnegan at [log in to unmask]
(mailto:[log in to unmask])
Or by phone 860-508-2810
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