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“Sense
and Sentiment” Symposium at Pomona College
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On February 10-11, Friday and Saturday, “Sense and
Sentiment” will be held at Pomona College, a symposium
featuring Alice Fulton, Catherine Gallagher, Jonathan Lear,
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Bill Viola, and involving two new
exhibitions at the Pomona College Museum of Art.
“Sense and Sentiment” brings together celebrated writers and
artists to address the nexus where sense(s), sensitivity,
sentiment(ality), and sensuality merge or clash. The
conference explores the relation between reason and feeling
– and its broad relevance.
What is the relation between reason and feeling, and between
bodily perception and conviction or judgment? Is there a
“language of real feeling,” in Jane Austen’s words, and if
so, is it verbal, or does it display itself on the body? If
emotions are plainly connected to bodily sensation, are
patterns of reasoning also in some sense “embodied,” as
cognitive scientists have begun to suggest? Does the impulse
to make sense prevent us from sympathizing? Is reason the
parent, the child, the slave, or the master of the passions?
Are we being self-indulgent when we’re thinking about our
own feelings? Or is this emphasis on our own feelings a way
for us not to be self-indulgent and to care for other’s
feelings?
Exploring these and other questions in relation to history,
literature, philosophy, and visual art—past and present—the
participants in this intellectual symposium and sensory
festival will draw on such diverse topics as the slave
trade, Melanie Klein, Tristan, feminism, shame, warmth, and
grade A noise.
Lectures will be held in Rose Hills Theatre (Smith Campus
Center, 170 E. Sixth St., Claremont) and evening events in
Lyman Hall (Thatcher Music Building, 340 N. College Ave.,
Claremont). For further information, call (909) 607-2212.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offers a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. More information about Pomona College can
be found on the Web at www.pomona.edu .
Sense and Sentiment: Symposium Schedule
Friday February 10:
3-4:15 Catherine Gallagher "National Sentiment in the
Suppression of the Slave Trade”
4:15-5 Improv theater: "A Spoof of the Eighteenth-Century
Sensibility Movement": Sarah Wheeler, Mac Barnett, and
friends.
5-6: Reception, Pomona College Museum of Art. Exhibitions:
“Almost Certified (grade A noise for non-discerning
consumers),” Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain, Project Series:
Machine Project, and “The Senses: Work from the Permanent
Collection.”
8:00 “Warmth Sculpture”: Poetry reading Alice Fulton
Saturday February 11
9:30-10:45 “Melanie Klein: The Difference Affect Makes”: Eve
Kosofsky Sedgwick
11-12:15 “The Transformation of Shame”: Jonathan Lear
2-3:15 “Sisterly Sentimentalism: Feminism and the Politics
of Empathy”: Christine Stansell
3:30-5: Roundtable in Rose Hills Theater: Catherine
Gallagher, Alice Fulton, Eve Sedgwick, Jonathan Lear,
Christine Stansell, David Foster Wallace, Kathleen Howe,
Rena Fraden, Moderator.
8-9:30 “The Tristan Project”: Bill Viola. Followed by a
reception in the Pomona College Museum of Art.
**Showing and judging of short videos by Claremont Colleges
students and professionals periodically throughout the two
days.
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