This Symposium is co-organized by Alison Booth, Rennie Mapp, and Jack Chen, under the auspices of the Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures’ Reading Lab.

Morning Sessions in Wilson Hall 142

9:00–9:30 am:

Refreshments and Coffee

9:30 am–9:45 am:

Welcoming Remarks by Jack W. Chen, Director of IHGC

9:45 am–10:30 am:

First Session - Bonnie Mak, University of Illinois: “Reading the /”

10:45 am–11:30 am:

Second Session - Tina Jane Lupton, University of Copenhagen/University of Warwick: “The Work of Reading and Its Formats”

11:45 am–12:30 pm:

Third Session - Nicholas Frankel, Virginia Commonwealth University: “The Printed Page as Reading Interface”

12:30 pm–1:30 pm:

 Lunch: Wilson Hall First Floor Lobby

…and walk over to Shannon Library…

Afternoon Sessions in Shannon Library 330

1:45 pm–2:00 pm:

Welcoming Remarks by Alison Booth, Director of the Digital Humanities Center

2:00 pm–2:45 pm:

Fourth Session - Allan Riddell University of Iowa, “Revisiting the Argument for the Stability of Print in N. K . Hayles’s My Mother Was a Computer”

3:00 pm–3:45 pm:

Fifth Session - Inge van de Ven, Tilburg University: “Attention on Demand: Reading Practices in the Platform-Driven Attention Economy”

4:00 pm–4:45 pm:

Sixth Session - Anatoly Detwyler, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “The Great Rearrangement: Mosaic Theory and the Unreadable”

4:45 pm–5:15 pm:

Concluding Conversation 

6:45 pm:

Dinner/Party - All Are Welcome. The Southern Crescent, 814 Hinton Avenue, Charlottesville, VA 22902