Attention and the Humanities

Please join us for an afternoon symposium on “Attention and the Humanities” organized by Alessandra Aloisi and Nicholas Gaskill.

The event will consist of a roundtable, in which faculty at Oxford will discuss their current work on the topic of attention. There is also to be a keynote lecture by Lucy Alford (Wake Forest University), titled “Here and Gone: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body.” 

Participants in the roundtable are: Alessandra Aloisi, Carolin Duttlinger, Nicholas Gaskill, Carmen Guarino, Patrick McGuinness, Kathryn Murphy.

Professor Alford is the author of Forms of Poetic Attention (Columbia University Press, 2020)

Programme:

2:00-2:15 Tea & Coffee

2:15-2:20 Opening Remarks by Alessandra Aloisi and Nicholas Gaskill

2:20-4:00 Roundtable: Alessandra Aloisi, Carolin Duttlinger, Nicholas Gaskill, Carmen Guarino, Patrick McGuinness, Kathryn Murphy

4:15-5:30 Keynote: Lucy Alford (Wake Forest University), “Here and Gone: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body.”

5:30 Wine Reception