(All times listed below are in Eastern Daylight Savings Time – EDT)
F R I D A Y , M A R C H 1 9 , 2 0 2 1
Session I (9:30 – 12)
9:30-9:45 | Introductions
9:45-10:45 | Attention, Care, Language
Lucy Alford, “Units of Intensive Care: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body” (comment: Jeff Dolven, Princeton University)
Yael Geller, “Obsession as an Attentional Phenomenon”(comment: Julian Chehirian, PrincetonUniversity)
B R E A K ( 1 5 M I N U T E S )
11-12 | Technologies of Attention
Carolyn Dicey Jennings & Shadab Tabatabaeian, “Attention, Technology, and Creativity” (comment: Katarzyna Kasia, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Natasha Dow Schüll, “Attention by Design: Course-Corrections for Wandering Minds” (comment: Brian Yuan, Princeton University)
B R E A K ( 7 5 M I N U T E S )
Session II (1:15 – 3:30)
1:15-2:15 | Attention, Sensation, and Cognition
Alexandra Hui, “Listening for the “Buluwayo”: Hunting by Ear in Forest and Fen” (comment: Erika Milam, Princeton University)
Henry Cowles, “Psychology is Boring: Attention and Habit c. 1900” (comment: Katja Guenther, Princeton University)
B R E A K ( 1 5 M I N U T E S )
2:30-3:30 | Art, Matter, and Mind
Jesse Prinz, “Art and Attention” (comment: Julian Rose, Princeton University)
Joanna Fiduccia, “Medium Focus” (comment: Hal Foster, Princeton University)
S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 0 , 2 0 2 1
Session III (9:30 – 11:45)
9:30-10:30 | The Ethics of Attention
Carlos Montemayor, “Attention: Mechanism and Virtue” (comment: Michael Gordin, Princeton University)
Richard Spiegel, “Attention at the Margins: The Death Penalty and Liberal Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century Vienna” (comment: Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
B R E A K ( 1 5 M I N U T E S )
10:45-11:45 | Attention Caught in Neural Nets
Orit Halpern, “The Neural Imaginary” (comment: Adam Jasper, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich – ETH)
Nick Seaver, “Attention Is All You Need” (comment: Aderayo Sanusi, Princeton University)
B R E A K ( 1 5 M I N U T E S )
P A N E L D I S C U S S I O N
12 – 1 | “Race, Power, and the Politics of Attention”
co-hosted with Kunsthall Trondheim
(co-organized with Stefanie Hessler, chair)
Lisa
Nakamura
Sarah
Jackson
Sonali
Chakravarti
Please Note: A separate Zoom webinar registration is required to attend this panel discussion. Register here.
B R E A K ( 30 M I N U T E S )
Session IV (1:30 – 2:30)
1:30-2:30 | Mindful Selves (and their Absence?)
John Tresch, “Jhāna Wars: The Stakes of Attention in Post-Buddhism” (comment: Caleb Smith, Yale University)
Jonardon Ganeri, “The Apophatic I: Attention and Subjectivity in Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya’s The Subject as Freedom” (comment: Federico Marcon, Princeton University)
B R E A K ( 1 5 M I N U T E S )
2:45-3:30 | Closing Discussion
(opening event comment: Sal Randolph, artist and Zen practitioner)
Led by D. Graham Burnett & Justin E.H. Smith