Professing Literature
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Senate Hall (Building 71A), Room -136
09:00-11:00
Greetings and General Introduction to the Workshop
Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University
Reading as Advocacy
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Chair: Barbara Hochman
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"Bibliotherapy vs. Biblioactivism," Leah Price , Harvard University
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"Political Theologies of Reading," Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount
University
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Reading and Politics
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Chair: Tess Chakkalakal
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"Indian Nullification of American Literature?: Apess and the Politics of
Recognition," Yael Ben-zvi, Ben-Gurion University
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"Bartleby in the White House," David M. Stewart, National Central
University, Taiwan
13:00-14:30
Lunch break (on your own)
14:30-16:00
The Children's Hour
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Chair: Leah Price
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"Tasting and Testing Books," Amy L. Blair, Marquette University
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"Reading Frames: Photography, Comics and Race," Sonia Weiner, Tel-
Aviv University
16:00-16:30
Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Secular and Sacred
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Chair: Yael Ben-zvi
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"A Legitimate Field for Human Research?: Biblical Fiction in the
Antebellum U.S.," Danielle Rubin, Ben-Gurion University
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"Believe What You Read: The Hymnbook as Postsecular Technology,"
Christopher N. Phillips, Lafayette College
18:30
Dinner (all speakers invited)
Cultural Protocols
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Senate Hall (Building 71A), Room -136
09:00-10:30
Culture and Literacy I
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Chair: Amy L. Blair
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"Not Reading the Classics in Elizabethan Education,” Ray Schrire,
Hebrew University
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"The Writing Revolution and the Culture of the Book in Nineteenth
Century East-European Jewish Society," Iris Parush, Ben-Gurion University
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:30
Culture and Literacy II
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Chair: Gillian Silverman
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"Compulsory Literacy for Immigrants: Tests and Paperwork at Ellis
Island," Marija Dalbello, Rutgers University
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"'Here we are': English Instruction on Israeli Educational Television in
the Early 1970s," Eitan Bar Yosef, Ben-Gurion University
12:30-14:00
Lunch break (on your own)
14:00-15:30
Genre and the Canon
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Chair: Christopher N. Phillips
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"Beyond Catherine Morland; or, Doing Right by the Late Eighteenth-
Century Gothic Reader," Yael Shapira, Bar-Ilan University
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"Reading and Realism: Charles Chesnutt's Diary," Tess Chakkalakal,
Bowdoin College
Excursion and Dinner (all speakers invited)
Theory and Practices
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Senate Hall (Building 71A), Room -136
09:00-10:30
In Theory I
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Chair: David M. Stewart
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"Aesthetic Theory: From Adorno to Reception Study," Philip Goldstein,
University of Delaware
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"Our Tribal Humanities," Nir Evron, Tel-Aviv University
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:30
In Theory II
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Chair: Marija Dalbello
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"From the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to Weak Theory: Reading
Strategies in Times of Crisis," Krystyna Mazur, University of Warsaw
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“Closer Reading: An Erotic Philology of Yiddish,” Zohar Weiman-
Kelman, Ben-Gurion University
12:30-14:00
Lunch break (on your own)
14:00-15:30
Using Books
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Chair: Yael Shapira
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"Bibliotherapy,” Michal Simchon, David Yellin Academic College of
Education
- "Reading Literature with Medical Students," Olga Kuminova, Ben-
Gurion University
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Response: A. Mark Clarfield, MD, Director, Medical School for
International Health, Ben-Gurion University
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-17:30
Sensate Reading
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Chair: Zohar Weiman-Kelman
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"Reading by Ear," Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London
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"Reading in the Flesh," Gillian Silverman, University of Colordao,
Denver
Response and Farewell
Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University