An international body of participants will include scholars addressing problems in education and composition, language, literature, music, philosophy, religion, sociology, and physics. Conference sessions will concentrate on four major inquiries: what is genre?; what are the relations between individual texts and genres?; what is the relation of genre study to ideology critique?; and why genre now?
Hamilton College professors participating in the conference as presenters or respondents include Patricia O’Neill, English; Peter Rabinowitz, Comparative Literature; Franklin Sciacca, Russian Studies; Stephenson Humphries-Brooks, Religious Studies; and Nathaniel Strout, English. Friday and Sunday sessions will be held in the Cultural Center of Colgate University in Hamilton; Saturday sessions will be held in the Dwight Lounge of Hamilton College’s Bristol Center in Clinton. For further information and a conference program, contact Michael Coyle in the Colgate Department of English at (315) 228-7264.
(CONFERENCE PROGRAM FOLLOWS)
GENRE THEORY AT THE MILLENNIUM
SEPTEMBER 11-13, 1998
Sponsored by
COLGATE UNIVERSITY AND HAMILTON COLLEGE
FRIDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER
Sessions in the Colgate University Cultural Center
8:00 (AM) Van pickup to take guests staying at the Bristol Center to the Colgate
University Cultural Center (driving time approximately 30 minutes)
8:20 Van pickup to take guests at the Colgate Inn to the University Cultural Center
8:30 Coffee, juices, croissants
9:00 Welcome by Colgate Dean of the Faculty, Jane Pinchin
9:15 Introduction, Michael Coyle, Department of English, Colgate University
SESSION 1
9:20—12:00
Chair: Linck Johnson, Department of English, Colgate University
Ralph Cohen, Department of English, University of Virginia, "What Are Genres?"
Heather Dubrow, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, "The Lawlessness of Genre, or A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Generic Norms"
Respondents: Carolyn Miller, Department of English, North Carolina State University; David Radcliffe, Department of English, Virginia Polytechnical Institute
12:00—1:15 Lunch
SESSION 2
1:30—3:10
Chair: James Wetzel, Department of Philosophy, Colgate University
Anne Freadman, Department of English, University of Queensland, "Traveller, stay awhile"
Mary Gerhart/Allan Melvin Russell, Departments of Religion and Physics, Hobart-William Smith College. "The Genre: Bidisciplinary Dialogue"
Respondents: Michael Prince, Department of English, Boston University; John Rowlett, Independent Scholar, Charlottesville, VA
3:10—3:30 Break
SESSION 3
3:30—5:10
Chair: Vincent DiGirolamo, Department of Interdisciplinary Writing, Colgate University
Charles Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Social Forms as Habitats for Action"
Carolyn Miller, Department of English, North Carolina State University, "Genre Theory Across the Disciplines: Formations and Transformations for the New Millennium"
Respondents: Patricia O'Neill, Department of English, Hamilton College; Edward Tomarken, Department of English, Miami University
5:15 wine or cash bar
6:00 Banquet at Merrill House
9:00 Van pickup at Merrill House to return guests to Colgate Inn and Bristol Center
SATURDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER
Sessions in the Dwight Lounge, Bristol Center of Hamilton College
8:00 AM Van pickup to take guests staying at the Colgate Inn to the Hamilton College
Bristol Center (driving time approximately 30 minutes).
8:30 Coffee, Juices, Croissants
9:00 Welcome by Hamilton College Dean of the Faculty, Bobby Fong
9:15 Introduction, Peter Rabinowitz, Dept of Comparative Literature, Hamilton College
SESSION 1
9:20—12:00
Chair: Franklin Sciacca, Department of Russian Studies, Hamilton College
Igor Shaitanov, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Russian State University for the Humanities, "The Historical Poetics of Alexander Vesselovsky"
Stephen Neale, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, "Greek Genres"
Respondents: Philip Novak, Department of English, LeMoyne College; Andrew Keller, Department of Classics, Colgate University
12:00—1:15 Lunch
SESSION 2
1:30—3:10
Chair: Nathaniel Strout, Department of English, Hamilton College
Peter Rabinowitz, Department of Comparative Literat
