Rice University English Symposium

06/24/2013

Don't forget to submit to this year's Environmental Humanities symposium.

September 13-14. We have great keynotes in Prof. Clair Colebrook from PennState and Rice's own Prof. Timothy Morton.

September 13-14, 2013 Ecology and the Environmental Humanities Keynotes: Prof. Claire Colebrook, The Pennsylvania State University Prof. Timothy Morton, Rice University

09/13/2012

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Art and Cocktails Friday 9/14 Farnsworth Pavilion 5:30-6:30 PM Posted on September 4, 2012 by Rice English Symposium On Display: “Real Love is When You Feel Soft All Over: A Children’s Book for Adults” by Sara Griffin Sara Griffin On the Bar: Ample refreshments and libations P...

09/11/2011

Our keynote speaker, Dr. Julia Lupton, will speak on Saturday, September 23rd on "Shakespeare and Hospitality: Building Uncommon Commons." Peruse her past essays on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt, Renaissance literature, and more below.

Carl Schmitt's RenaissanceHannah Arendt's RenaissanceReconstructing the RenaissanceSovereigns, Citizens, and SaintsThe Merchant of Venice and Continental Philosophy

09/11/2011

We are excited to announce that Dr. Helena Michie, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor in the Dept. of English, will be presenting as part of our "Commonalities" roundtable lunch. She is the author of Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Cambridge UP 2006) and teaches courses in professional writing, feminist theory, literary theory, and Victorian literature and culture. Read more about her work here:

Ph.D, University of PennsylvaniaProfessor of EnglishAgnes Cullen Arnold Professor in HumanitiesOffice: Herring Hall 226Phone: 713-348-2666Email: [email protected]

09/10/2011

Dr. Sarah Whiting, William Ward Watkin Professor and Dean of the Rice School of Architecture, will be joining us for our "Commonalities" roundtable lunch. Read more about her fascinating work on the modern subject, both individual and collective, here:

06/20/2011

Listen to "Of Chairs, Stools, and Trestle Tables," Dr. Lupton's talk on 3/21/2011 at the "Animal, Mineral, Vegetable: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods" conference in D.C.

Featured Talk delivered by Julia Reinhard Lupton for Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods Conference,...

06/20/2011

Check out keynote speaker Dr. Julia Reinhard Lupton's book, published in May 2011. Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life.

What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? What are their rights? To whom are they obligated? Such questions—bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life—animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has been obscured by historicist approache

04/22/2011

We are pleased to announce that Kathleen Stewart, author of Ordinary Affects (Duke, 2007) and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin will be joining us this fall! Follow the link for more information on her exciting work on the ordinary and beyond.

I write and teach on affect, the ordinary, worlding, the senses, and modes of ethnographic engagement driven by curiosity and attachment. My work is an experiment that writes from the intensities in things. It asks what potential modes of knowing, relating or attending to things are already being l

04/14/2011

Check out Dr. Julia Lupton's newest project, Shakespeare and Hospitality: Actions, Objects and Environments in Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Life, which draws on design theory, phenomenology, and political theology to explore the life of objects in housekeeping and hospitality.

111 Navy ChairAbraham Tapestry described by visitorAby Warburg on TapestriesAffordances and CultureAffordances and PhenomenologyAffordances: DefinitionsAll the World's an ArrasArendt's DemonsAssembly: LatourAyse Birsel on Product DesignBanquets: Table FurnitureBauhaus: Workshops for ModernityBiomedi

04/14/2011

We are pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Julia Reinhard Lupton! She is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, with a joint appointment in Education. Her research interests include Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Religious Studies, Humanities and the Public Sphere, and design and everyday life.