ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others

• Opening Reception
  5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
  The Princeton Art Museum
  Jazz pianist Randy Bauer
  Museum Exhibit: Mir Iskusstva: The Silver Age of Russian Art in St. Petersburg
• Registration
  5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
  Andlinger (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
• Readings
  8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
  Richardson Auditorium
  Gabe Hudson, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Wheeler, C.K. Williams
  Introduction by Michael Wood
• Film Screening
  8:00 p.m.
  185 Nassau
  Filmmaker Su Friedrich, screening her film Hide and Seek
  Opening remarks, Maria DiBattista
• Special Preview Evening, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  McCarter Theater
  (Special price tickets are available. Please call the McCarter Theater directly and mention the ACLA CONFERENCE DISCOUNT.)

Friday, March 24

• Board Meeting
  8:00 a.m. – 10 a.m.
  Prospect House
• Continental Breakfast
  7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
  Andlinger (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
• Registration
  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  Andlinger (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
• Stream A
  8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
• A.M. Coffee Break
  Andlinger (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
• Stream B
  10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
• Business Meeting & Lunch
  12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
  Dillon Gym
• Stream C
  1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
• P.M. Break
  Andlinger (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
• Stream D
  3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
• Roundtable on the Job Market
  3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
  010 East Pyne
  Co-sponsored by the ADPCL and the Graduate Student Caucus
• Plenary Address
  6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
  Richardson Auditorium
  A Conversation with Toni Morrison and Valerie Smith
  Introduction by Paul Muldoon
• **Dinner on one’s own**
• Film Screening
  9:00 p.m.
  185 Nassau
  Filmmaker Ruba Nadda, screening her film Sabah
  Opening remarks, Maria DiBattista
• RACKETT Concert
  9:00 p.m.
  Richardson Auditorium
  Featuring Paul Muldoon and Nigel Smith
• Dance Performance
  9:15 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
  185 Nassau
  Hagan Dance Studio
  Choreography and Poetics with American Ballet Theatre
  Respondents: Jonathon Appels and Virginia Jackson

Saturday, March 25

• ADPCL Breakfast Meeting for Chairs and Directors
  8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
  Maclean House
• Continental Breakfast
  7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
  Andlinger (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
• Registration
  8:00 a.m. – 12 noon
  Andlinger (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
• Stream A
  8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
• A.M. Coffee Break
  Andlinger (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
• Stream B
  10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
• Break for Lunch
  (on one’s own)
• Stream C
  1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
• P.M. Break
• Stream D
  3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
• Roundtable:
  Report on Undergraduate Literature Curriculum
  3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m
  010 East Pyne
  Al Baum, David Damrosch, Caroline Eckhardt, Kathy Komar, and
  Corinne Scheiner (Chair)
• Plenary Session II
  6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
  Richardson Auditorium
  Writing Human Rights, Writing Comparatively
  Margaret Higonnet (Chair)
  Simon Gikandi, “Criticism and the Will to Freedom”
  Domna Stanton, “On Universalism in Human Rights Discourse, Yet Again”
  Joseph Slaughter, “Making (Common) Sense of Human Rights: The Human, The Person, and Other Literary Figures of the Law”
  Gayatri Spivak, “Speaking to Young Democratic Socialists?”
• Banquet, Awards Ceremony, & Dance
  7:30 p.m.
  Dillon Gym

Sunday, March 26

• Continental breakfast
  7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
  Andlinger (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
• Stream A
  8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
• A.M. Coffee Break
  Andlinger (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
• Stream B
  10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.