Social Constructionsof the Self: A Workshop

Tel Aviv University, 7-8 January 2018

The Zvi Yavetz School of Historical StudiesThe Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of HumanitiesTel Aviv University

Sunday, 7 January

16:30-18:30Greetings and Opening Remarks Leo Corry, Dean, The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv UniversityAviad Kleinberg, Head of the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University

Keynote AddressElizabeth Lunbeck, Harvard UniversityNarcissistic Selves in the Age of Trump

Monday, 8 January

9:00-11:00The Bounded SelfChair: Yael Sternhell, Tel Aviv UniversityYouval Rotman, Tel Aviv UniversityThe Relational Self: The Slave, the Author, the Reader, the Scholar Alice Bellagamba, University of MilanSelves and Freedom after African EmancipationsJohn Stauffer, Harvard UniversityFrederick Douglass’s Continual Self-Fashioning

11:15-13:15The Transformed SelfChair: Roy Tzohar, Tel Aviv UniversityRam-Prasad Chakravarthi, University of LancasterReconfiguration: Emotions and ConversionMaria Heim, Amherst CollegePulling up the Roots: Conversion Narratives in the TheravādaLaurie Sears, University of WashingtonMysticism and Islam in Javanese Ramayana Tales

15:00-17:00The Nocturnal SelfChair: Avner Wishnitzer, Tel Aviv UniversityRoger Ekirch, Virginia Tech A Cage of Unclean ThoughtsElisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich/New York UniversityTraversing the Night: Where the Social Meets the AestheticCarole Woodall, University of ColoradoIllegible Nights: Drug Zones and Cocaine Narratives in 1920s Istanbul

17:15-18:15Concluding Discussion

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