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Symposium in honor of the careers of Julia Reinhard Lupton (English) and Jane O. Newman (Comparative Literature).
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9:00-9:30 am | Breakfast
9:30-9:45 am | Welcome -- Steve Mailloux, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
9:45-11:00 am | Alumni Panel -- Comparative Literature
Chaired by Adriana Johnson, Chair and Professor of Comparative Literature
Matthew Ancell, '07, Brigham Young University | “Marrano Portraits: Montaigne and Derrida"
Colby Gordon ‘13, Bryn Mawr College | “Glory”
Laura Hatch ‘21, Brigham Young University | “Fort und Da: On Trust, Virtue, and What Endures”
Michael Berlin '22, Washington and Lee University | “On the Gradual Construction of Community through Durcharbeiten”
11:00-11:15 am | Break
11:15-12:30 am | Alumni Panel -- English
Chaired by Elizabeth Allen, Chair and Professor of English
Gina Shaffer ’02, Saddleback College | "‘More Than Kin and Less Than Kind’: Conceptions of Kinship, Kingship, and Kindness in King Lear"
Jennifer Rust, '07, Saint Louis University | “Ursprung”
Sheiba Kian Kaufman, '16, Saddleback College | “True friends are even as skilled physicians”: Hope and the Humanities with Jane and Julia
Shaina Trapedo, '13, Yeshiva University | "As Iron Sharpens Iron: Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Talmud"
12:30-2:00pm | LUNCH
2:00-3:15 pm | Alumni Panel -- English
Chaired by Victoria Silver, Professor of English
Bernadette Meyler, '06 | Stanford University | "Thinking with Shakespeare, Thinking with the Constitution"
Jeff Wilson ‘12, Harvard University | “Jane, Julia, and a Genealogy of Public Humanities at UC Irvine”
Peter Cibula ‘22, UC Irvine | "Earthly Afterlives: Auerbach, Grace, and The Winter's Tale"
3:15-3:30 pm | Break
3:30-5:00 pm | Jane and Julia, Nachleben und Freundschaft
Hall Bjørnstad, Indiana University and Sonia Velazquez, Indiana University, presiding. Introduced by John H. Smith.
Jane O. Newman, “Nachleben”
Julia Reinhard Lupton, “Freundschaft”
5:00-7:30 pm | Dinner Reception
This event was made possible by the Kirk Davis Jr. Public Shakespeare Fund. Co-hosted by the Departments of English and Comparative Literature and the UC Humanities Research Institute.