Modern Language Association 1999

 

The SCE sponsored the following panels at the 1999 MLA convention in Chicago. Click on paper titles to see their texts.

 

"Humanities Futures, I"

Wednesday, 29 December 12:00 noon- 1:15 p.m. Gold Coast, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Richard Ohmann, Wesleyan U.

1. "Humanities for All, or None?" -- Sharon O'Dair, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

2. "Franchising the University" -- Jeffrey Williams, U of Missouri, Columbia

3. "Noir Humanism" -- Donald K. Hedrick, Kansas SU, Manhattan

Respondent: Jeffrey Kittay, Lingua Franca

 

"Humanities Futures, II"

Thursday, 30 December 8:30-9:45 a.m. Ogden, Hyatt Regency

Presiding: Max Thomas, U of Iowa

1, "New Media and the Future of the Humanities" -- Michele Shauf, Georgia Institute of Technology

2. "Publishing Futures within (or without) the Humanities" --Geoffrey Sauer, Carnegie Mellon U

3. "McDonald's U.: Virtual Technology and Humanities Futures in the Corporatized University" -- Lina Carro, Humboldt SU and Nancy Knowles, U of Connecticut