Research Workshop in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts

This is an interdisciplinary research workshop (now a Stanford Humanities Center Research Workshop) for faculty and graduate students working at the borders of philosophy, literature, and the arts. Doctoral students from all relevant departments are invited to join. Contact Lilla Balint <balint AT stanford.edu> or Ben Wolfson <wolfson AT stanford.edu>.






Past presentations:

1. Ahmed Tayel, “Aesthetic Response in Reading Modern English Poetry”, 10/19/05

2. Anne Hamilton, “Moral Luck and Retrospective Assessment”, 11/9/05

3. Edward Vazquez, “Seeing Sandback”, 11/30

4. Peyton McElroy, “The Will to Truth and Saving Illusion: Redemption in the Gay Science”, 1/19/06

5. Manuel Clemens, “Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Problem of Liberal Education”, 2/8/06

6. Florian Klinger, “7 Theses on Judgment”, 3/1/06

7. Laurel Scotland-Stewart, “Phenomenology and the Experience of the Actor”, 4/19/06

8. Nicola Suthor, “Johannes Kahrs: Painting after Photography (Malingering Reality)” & Bissera Pentcheva, “The Energy of the Relic vs the Artifice of the Container”, 5/17/06

9. Ben Wolfson, “Two Questions of Form in Two Dialogues of Oscar Wilde”, 5/31/06

10. Laurel Scotland-Stewart, "Social Invisibility and Phenomenology", 10/11/06

11. Fabian Goppelsroder, “Gesture”, 11/1/06

12. Florian Klinger, “Music as Gesture”, 11/29/06

13. Chris Donaldson, “To Proswpon Thewrias: Husserl, Philesius & Ilacomilus, Aristophanes”, 1/17/07

14. Ben Wolfson, “What Kinds of Lives Have Narrative Coherence?”, 2/7/07

15. David Marno, “The Piercing Eye of God’s Grace”, 2/21/07

16. Lisa Villarreal, "On Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello", 4/18/07

17. Harris Feinsod, “‘These vast imaginations shrank:’ Vico’s Giants and the Dimensions of the Human”, 5/16/07

18. Noreen Khawaja, “Socrates, World-historical Existentialism, and Sin”, 6/6/07

19. Nir Evron, “Henry James, Hegel and the Question of Freedom: A Philosophical Reading of The Portrait of a Lady”, 10/17/07

20. Chris Donaldson, "The Palazzo di Venezia Triptych", 11/7/07

21. Florian Klinger, “Robert Musil’s Kinetic Gestures”, 11/28/07

22. Noreen Khawaja, “Heidegger on the Essence of Poetry and the Fate of Form”, 1/23/08

23. Will Beals, “Nietzschean Freedom”, 2/13/08

24. Ben Wolfson, “Tertiumne Datur? Charles on Aristotelian Desire”, 4/16/08

25. Lauren Boehm, “Death in Operation: Tragic Irony, Organic Form, and the Fate of the Romantic Lyric” & Melanie Conroy, “Notes on Stendhal’s Armance, ou quelques scènes d’un salon de Paris en 1827” 5/14/08

26. Marton Dornbach, “Feeling of Life: Kantian aesthetics as a normative phenomenology of the embodied mind”, 5/28/08

27. Kathryn Hume, “Descartes’ Relevance to Theories of Fictionality: Time, Identity and Reference in the Discourse and the Meditations”, 10/7/08

28. David Marno, “Unfolding Grace: The Poetics of John Donne’s Holy Sonnets”, 10/21/08

29. Nir Evron, “Narratology and Metalepsis”, 11/18/08

30. Joshua Landy, “The Devil, the Master-Criminal, and the Re-Enchantment of the World”, 1/21/09

31. Florian Klinger, “Musil’s Kinetic Gestures: What is More Actual than the Actual”, 2/11/09










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