New Modernisms – Coming to Attention
Israel Science Foundation Workshop
3-4 PM Delimiting the Field
Yael Levin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
Welcome
Maren Linett (Purdue University, USA)
“Making Us New”
4-5 PM Then/Now
Antonio Vargas (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
“Attention and Allegory”
M. Beatrice Fazi (University of Sussex, UK)
“Distraction Machines? Augmentation, Automation and Attention in a Computational Age”
5-6 PM Roundtable
Definitions, Concepts: Signposting an Interdisciplinary Encounter
Wednesday, June 2nd – MANDEL BUILDING ROOM 530/VIRTUAL
13:30 Gathering/ Lunch
2 PM Kafka, Benjamin, Celan
Chair: Amir Engel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
Noam Pines (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)
“The Problem of Attention in Kafka, Benjamin, Celan”
Respondent: Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford, UK)
3 PM Reading
Chair: Galia Benziman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
Yael Segalovitz (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IL)
“’The Music of Prose Takes Place in Silence’: Sound, Fury, and Faulkner’s Negative Audition”
Leona Toker (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
“The Axiology of Attention (through Nabokov’s Lens)”
4 PM Coffee/Tea
4:20 PM Art
Chair: Gal Ventura (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
John G. Peters (University of North Texas, USA)
“Subjectivity, Attention, and Impressionism”
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan (The University of Haifa, IL)
“Attention or Interpretation: Virginia Woolf, Pierre Bonnard, and the Proverbial Table of Philosophy”
5:20 PM Empirical Aesthetics
Chair: Ayelet Landau (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Paul Armstrong (Brown University, USA)
“This is Your Brain on Modernism”
Amir Harash (Tel Aviv University, IL)
“An Empirical Study of Ambiguity in Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘Emma Zunz’”
DINNER
Thursday, June 3rd – MANDEL BUILDING ROOM 530/VIRTUAL
13:30 Gathering/ Lunch
2 PM Beckett
Chair: Yaeli Greenblatt (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
Olga Beloborodova (The University of Antwerp, Belgium)
“Samuel Beckett and the Modernist ‘Inward Turn’: A Postcognitivist Reassessment”
Josh Powell (Cardiff University, UK)
“Not Quite There: Inattention in Samuel Beckett’s Footfalls”
3 PM Media
Chair: Ofer Ashkenazi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
Katherine Isobel Baxter (Northumbria University, UK)
“Joseph Conrad Goes to the Cinema”
Hadar Levy Landesberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
“Listen Up! Phatic Thresholds and Interface Design”
Naomi Mandel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
“Looking at and through: The Hunger Games as Video Game”
4:30 PM Coffee/Tea
5:00 PM The City
Chair: Yael Segalovitz (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IL)
Yael Levin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
“Modernism, Technology and the Immigrant”
Elana Gomel (Tel Aviv University, IL)
“Distraction, Pandemics and the City”
6:00 PM ROUNDATABLE
Q&A
GALA DINNER
5:00 PM ROUNDTABLE
New Directions
Publication
Future Cooperation
New Modernisms - Coming to Attention 