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2007 Conference
San Francisco
The Golden Gateways
of the Humanities:
Transgressions/Transformation,
Dissonance/Harmony
Marjorie Perloff & Robert Scholes Keynote Speakers
John
Basssett
Guest Speaker
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IT IS TIME TO START PACKING! San Francisco has "opened her Golden Gate" for NAHE's 2007 biennial conference to be held from February 28 to March 3, 2007 at the HOLIDAY INN GOLDEN GATEWAY!
The hotel is conveniently located on the historic California Street Cable Car line that begins (or ends--depending on your perspective) right outside our hotel.
From the hotel's location you can easily reach Fisherman's Wharf, the Civic Center, Chinatown, Union Square, the Financial District, and the newly renovated Ferry building at the Embarcadero.
Room rates are confirmed at the unbelievably economical rate of $119.00 (plus 14 percent tax). Should you choose to "leave your heart in San Francisco" for a few days on either side of the conference, the hotel will extend to NAHE members the $119 rate.
In addition to all the wonderful sights of this "City by the Bay," San Francisco, at the time of NAHE's conference will have an abudance of cultural activities from which attendees could choose. The art galleries are abundant. There is the newly built DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park; the Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum; the Asian Arts Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. If you are more inclined towards the Performing Arts, the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Ballet will be performing. Theater has always been a large part of San Francisco's history. The American Conservatory Theatre, the Magic Theatre, the Berkeley Repertoire Theatre and the Custom Made Theatre Company will have performances during the conference. There are also a variety of Literary Tours from which to choose. Even a trip to San Francisco's newly remodeled City Hall (fashioned after St. Peter's in Rome) is worth a visit.
Keynote Speakers
Marjorie Perloff Robert Scholes
A Futurist Invention
A truly distinguished critic, educator, and international lecturer, Professor Perloff is currently the President of the Modern Language Associatiuon [MLA]. Marjorie Perfloff is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University and presently teaches a graduate seminar at the University of Southern California.
She is the author and editor of over a dozen books on literary and art criticism and cultural history. Her most recent book, The Vienna Paradox (New Directions), is a fascinating memoir of her life journey from Austria to America—integrating history, nostalgia, and cultural humanistic commentary.
Thurs., March, 1 at 7:00 p.m. in the Emerald Ballroom.
Robert Scholes is known for his ideas on metafiction and fabulation and is a renowned literary critic and theorist. He has been at Brown University since 1970 as a Professor; The Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities 1982-1999; The Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus 1999-present and is currently Research Professor of Modern Culture and Media. Professor Scholes is also a former president of the Modern Language Association.
He lectures at home and abroad on modernism, modern literature, opera, art, and thought. He has authored over a dozen books. His most recent Paradoxy of Modernism (Yale UP) is a lively, personal book that opens up the reader's delight to the rich cultural terrain of modernism.
Friday, March 2, 10:45 a.m. in the Redwood Room.
For more information about Professor Perloff's work, visit her website at: http://wings.buffalo.edu/
For mor information about Professor Scholes work, visit his website at: http//www.brown.edu
In keeping with Clark's tradition of "Challenging Convention, Changing Our World," President Bassett has offered to talk on the subject of "Humanities Education in the New Century." He has dealt with this issue as department head, dean, president, and member of national committees. In his letter to NAHE's president he writes, "I do not have any problem saying something to get an audience all worked up." NAHE looks forward to his participation at the conference.
Sat., March 3, 12:15 in the Emerald Ballroom.
Michael Krasny to speak at NAHE Conference
Michael Krasny, Ph.D., is host of KQED's award-winning Forum, a news and public affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business and technology.
Dr. Krasny has interviewed many of the leading newsmakers and cultural icons of our time, including Saul Bellow, former President Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Francis Crick, John Kenneth Galbraith, Newt Gingrich, Jane Goodall, V.S. Naipaul, Rosa Parks, Robert Redford, Salman Rushdie, Carl Sagan, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem and Arcrchbishop Desmond Tutu.
He will read from his upcoming book Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio & Literary Life.
Saturday, March 3, 9:00 a.m. in the Redwood Room.
