Friday, December 10th & Saturday, December 11th
(see schedule below)

“Holding off…on Interpretation” is a two-day virtual symposium designed to foster collaboration concerning the question of understanding among thinkers from diverse ranks of the academy.

Before any attempt to understand another text, voice, language, or gesture—or simply: before any attempt to understand another, who may also be “oneself” —there are more initial questions, which no project of interpretation could circumvent: namely, what “understanding” could mean in each singular context, and what relation to alterity will have been supposed with the very aim to understand.

These persistent questions, especially in an age of unprecedented dissemination through digital technologies, call for halting once more to pose the question of understanding as such, from its early articulations in Greco-Roman antiquity through to more recent critical interventions, with the slowness and restraint that Friedrich Nietzsche had invoked when he wrote of philology as “ephexis in interpretation.”

FEATURING:
Isabelle Alfandary (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Michèle Cohen-Halimi (Université Paris 8)
Andrea Krauss (NYU)
Brown University faculty and graduate students:
Kristina Mendicino
Marc Redfield
Gerhard Richter
Zachary Sng
Sneha Chowdhury
Simon Horn
Ethan Lussky

SCHEDULE:
December 10th
8am–8:05am Welcoming Remarks

Panel 1
8:05am–11:20am (EST)
with a 15-minute break between the second and third presentation

Panel 2
12pm–2:10pm (EST)
with a 10-minute break between the first and second presentation

December 11th
Panel 3

8am–11:15am (EST)
with a 15-minute break between the second and third presentation

Panel 4
12pm–2:10pm (EST)
with a 10-minute break between the first and second presentation

Join Zoom Meeting
https://brown.zoom.us/j/93885174027
Meeting ID: 938 8517 4027