September 21, BYU Campus
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Welcome
Scott Miller, BYU
Matthew Wickman, BYU
9:15 – 10:45 AM
Transformative Experience
L.A. Paul, Yale University
Rumination and Moral Time: Forms of Thinking in Critical Times
Amanda Anderson, Brown University
10:45 — 11:00 AM
BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 PM
Blackness in Public: Reading and Righting Vulnerability across Generations, Geographies, and Genres
Ifeoma Nwankwo, Vanderbilt University
Vulnerability Beyond Resistance
Jason Kerr, BYU
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Lunch for registrees
BYU Museum of Art Tour (optional)
2:00 – 3:30 PM
The Values of Imperfection in an Age of Human Optimization
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University
Weak Humanities
Christopher Newfield, University of California, Santa Barbara
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Archipelagic Theorizing: Iridescence and Vulnerability on Geotemporal Foreshores
Brian Roberts, BYU
Weak Environmentalism: William Blake and Elizabeth Bishop in the Anthropocene
Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
September 22, Sundance Resort
9:00 – 12:00 PM
Explore Sundance Resort
Hike
Harvest Market
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Lunch at Sundance for registrees
1:00 – 2:30 PM
The Vulnerable Image: On the Imago Dei
Kevin Hart, University of Virginia
“No Word Came:” On Vulnerability and Spiritual Crisis, and Promise, in the Humanities
Matthew Wickman, BYU
3:00 – 4:30 PM
Poetic Thinking and Epistemic Vulnerabilities
Laurent Dubreuil, Cornell University
“Poetic Form and the Phenomenologies of Sympathy”
Kimberly Johnson, BYU
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Discussion