Marginalia:
Dialogues of Authority, Desire, Identity and Public Forms

A Conference of the Graduate Associates of the
Center for the Humanities at Temple University

April 18-19, 2006

April 18, 12:00-2:00
Gladfelter 914
[Descriptions of these sessions]

Access, Il/Legitimacy and Meaning in Religious Murals and Hip Hop Graffiti Writing

• Kara Crews (Anthropology): “Writing Against the City: Graffiti Writing and the Illegal Aesthetics of Public Space”
• Matthew Hunter (Religion): “From Sanctuary to Sidewalk: Black Religious Iconography in Philadelphia’s Murals”

April 18, 3:30-5:30
Gladfelter 914

'White Like the Moon': Interdisciplinary Explorations of Identity

• Rachel Falkenstern (Philosophy) and Andrea McDowell (Anthropology)
• Respondents: Professor Lewis Gordon (Philosophy) and Professor Sherri Grasmuck (Sociology)

April 19, 12:00-2:00
Anderson 821
[Descriptions of these sessions]

Imagining the Desiring Self

• Rujuta Chincholkar-Mandelia (African Amer. Studies): “Queer Narratives in South Asian Societies”
• Scott Stroud (Philosophy): “Desire and the Project of Self-Cultivation”
• Amy Weigand (Religion): “Getting Loose: animal longings and self-excavation”
• Matthew Badura (English): “I’m scared about how sappy this will look in print”: Hideous Talk by David Foster Wallace

April 19, 3:30-5:30
Anderson 821

Starchitects, The Bible, and the Google-verse: 3 "Mediums" of Authority

• Robert Main (Philosophy), Juris Milestone (Anthropology) and Seth Pauley (Creative Writing)