2024 Graduate Symposium at Department of Comparative Thought and Literature Johns Hopkins University

Location: Gilman 208

Friday, April 5

10:00am Panel 1: Fragmentary Poetics Between Philosophy and Literature

Amy Chan (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Fragmentary Form and Allusion: Tolson’s Skeptic Poetics”

Emma Duvall (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “The Beauty of Leaves Falling: Fragmentation and Justice in Sappho 1”

Vivian Jin (Harvard University) “Incomplete Gazes and Fragmentary Poems: Rereading Sappho 31 and Catullus 51”

12:00pm Panel 2: Disruption and Decay

Jessie Croteau (Johns Hopkins University) “Architects of Decline: Decay & Creation in the More-Than-Human World”

Krista Muratore (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) “Norman O Brown’s Fragments and The Reconciliation of Lacan and Deleuze”

Justin Barski (University of Rochester) “Data Aggregation, Fragmentation, and the Heap: The Legibility of Adversarial Images”

Ruthie Block (Yale University) “Another Recitation of Her Trace: On Dorothy Porter Wesley and Fugitive Planning for Fugitive Texts”

3:00pm Panel 3: Inscriptions and the Material

Forrest Pelsue (City University of New York) “ ‘Un jeu de vides et de pleins’: The function of decoration in ceramic water jug filters from Fustat”

Mary Bradford (Harvard University) “Po(e)ttery: The Fragmentary Poetics of the Enslaved Potter’s, David Drake’s, Storage Jars”

Mason Wilkes (Johns Hopkins University ) “New Uses for Old Wisdom: Remix and Pastiche in Sumerian Proverbs”

5:15 pm Keynote Speech

Branka Arsić (Columbia University ) “On Corals and Polyps: Melville’s Ontological Models”

Saturday, April 6

10:00am Panel 4: Global Literary Fragments From the Modern to the Contemporary

Rhiannon Clarke (Johns Hopkins University ) “ ‘Everything in the previous scene dissolves’:The Substantiality of Performative Text in Lorca’s A Trip to the Moon and The Audience”

Lucy Onderwyzer Gold (Brown University) “The Plague and the Protest Novel: Sourcing a Fragment”

June Yoon (Georgetown University) “Shattered and Fragmented: Reclaiming History in The Murmuring (1995) and Gyeongseong Creature (2023)”

Mitchell Kooh (Notre Dame University ) “Macro-cosmos, Theo-poetics, and the Fragment in Joyce’s Ulysses”

1:00 pm Panel 5: Tracing Fragments Across German Thought

Bes Bajraktarevic (Harvard University) “Die Poetischen Oberflächen: Tracing Rilke from Rodin to Landscape Poetry”

Liam Egan (Princeton University) “Unity and Disunity in Schlegel, Fichte, and Goethe”

Jesse Noily (University of Chicago) “A Sense for Fragments: Desiring Damaged Hebrew Manuscripts in Early Modern Germany”

3:00 pm Keynote Speech

Thomas P. Kelly (Harvard University) “The Unfinished Book in Early Modern China”