This is the PowerPoint version of the conference program presentation that I designed for the interdisciplinary conference, Uncertain Arrivals: Forms of Thought, Life, and Emergence.

1. WAK E FO R E S T U N IVE R S ITY
S YM P O S IU M
UNCERTAIN ARRIVALS:
FORMS

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the tragedy of the commons

3. fr s fh u h, life,
om o to g t
schrodinger’s cat

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om o to g t if, n
human ice flow

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g ly ue werner heisenberg

6. 9:00-9:30 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
Gallery Level, Reynolda House Museum of American Art
9:45-11:00 a.m.
Panel 1 | VOLATILITY: The Art of Indeterminacy
Panel Chair: Rekha Rosha,Department of English, The College of St. Rose
Larry Lavender, Department of Dance, UNC-Greensboro, “Shared Power Relations in Sociographic Performance”
Christina Tsoules Soriano, Department of Dance, Wake Forest University, “Drawing Voices” (co-performer)
Roymieco Carter, Department of Art, Wake Forest University, “Drawing Voices” (co-performer)
11:00-11:45 a.m.
Gallery Event
Guided tours of the Reynolda House
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Lunch
P R O G R AM Conference participants and attendees can purchase lunch in Reynolda Village or on the Wake Forest campus.
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1:45-3:00 p.m.
Panel 2 | ADAPTATION: The Uncertainties of Biology, Society, and Commerce
Panel Chair: Andrew Burkett, Department of English, Wake Forest University
Tyler Curtain, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Contingency Models: Biology and Theory”
Jeanne Simonelli, Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, “Desde Abajo al la Izquierda” (From the Bottom and to the Left)
Raymond Malewitz, Department of English, Yale University, “Rugged Consumerism and the Financial Crisis”
3:00-3:15 p.m.
Break
3:15-3:45 p.m.
Opening Address
Introductory Remarks, Phil Archer, Director of Public Programs, Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Herman Rapaport, “Thinking Uncertainty”
Department of English, Wake Forest University
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Wine and Cheese Reception
The Reynolda House Grounds

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Panel Chair: Rekha Rosha, Department of English, The College of St. Rose
Larry Lavender, Department of Dance, UNC-Greensboro, “Shared Power Relations in
Sociographic Performance”
Christina Tsoules Soriano, Department of Dance, Wake Forest University, “Drawing
Voices” (co-performer)
Roymieco Carter, Department of Art, Wake Forest University, “Drawing Voices” (co-
performer)

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Panel Chair: Andrew Burkett, Department of English, Wake Forest University
Tyler Curtain, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Contingencies Models:
Biology and Theory”
Jeanne Simonelli, Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, “Desde
Abajo al la Izquierda”
Raymond Malewitz, Department of English, Yale University, “Rugged Consumerism
and the Financial Crisis”

13. O e in A de s T in in U c r iny
p n g d rs | h k g n et t a
Introductory Remarks, Phil Archer, Director of Public Programs, Reynolda House
Museum of American Art
Herman Rapaport, Department of English, Wake Forest University, “Thinking
Uncertainty”

14. 9:00-9:30 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
Gallery Level, Reynolda House Museum of American Art
9:45-11:00 a.m.
Panel 3 | CHANCE: Unpredictability in Culture, Economics, and Politics
Panel Chair: Ryan Shirey, Department of English, Wake Forest University
Jessica Richard, Department of English, Wake Forest University, “Cheating and Calculation in Eighteenth-Century England”
Ioanna Zlateva, Department of English, Duke University, “Strange Investments in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey”
David Coates, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University, “The Certainty of Uncertainty in a World of Unregulated Markets”
11:00-11:45 a.m.
Gallery Event
Guided tours of the Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s current exhibition, “Virtue, Vice, Wisdom, & Folly: The Moralizing Tradition in American
Art”
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Conference participants and attendees can purchase lunch in Reynolda Village or on the Wake Forest campus.
P R O G R AM
STR A:
AU D Y
1:45-3:00 p.m.
Panel 4 | CRISIS: Emergence, Contingency, and Modernity
Panel Chair: Scott Klein, Department of English, Wake Forest University
92/5 Morna O'Neill, Department of Art History, Wake Forest University, “Dealer, Collector, Philanthropist: The Paradox of Hugh Lane in America”
Carter Smith, Department of English, Washington University in St. Louis, “Late Modernism: Risking the Voice”
Bruce Barnhart, Department of English, Wake Forest University, “Jazz Performance and the Temporality of Immanent Emergence”
3:00-3:15 p.m.
Break
3:15-3:45 p.m.
Keynote Address
Introductory Remarks, Page West, Director, BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism
Neil De Marchi, “Bubbling Away: Misplaced Certainties and Financial Crises”
Department of Economics, Duke University
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Wine and Cheese Reception
The Reynolda House Grounds

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Panel Chair: Ryan Shirey, Department of English, Wake Forest University
Jessica Richard, Department of English, Wake Forest University, “Cheating and
Calculation in Eighteenth-Century England”
Ioanna Zlateva, Department of English, Duke University, “Strange Investments in
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey”
David Coates, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University, “The
Certainty of Uncertainty in a World of Unregulated Markets”

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n o en y
Panel Chair: Scott Klein, Department of English, Wake Forest University
Morna O’Neill, Department of Art History, Wake Forest University, “Dealer, Collector,
Philanthropist, The Paradox of Hugh Lane in America”
Carter Smith, Department of English, Washington University in St. Louis, “Late
Modernism: Risking the Voice”
Bruce Barnhart, Department of English, Wake Forest University, “Jazz Performance
and the Temporality of Immanent Emergence”

22. K y oeA de s B b l gA a : M pa e
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Introductory Remarks, Page West, Director, BB&T Center for the Study of
Capitalism
Neil De Marchi, Department of Economics, Duke University, “Bubbling Away:
Misplaced Certainties and Financial Crises”

23. S PO N S O R S |A K O L D M N S
C N WE G E T

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