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Scholars from several disciplines and nations will discuss the idea
of genius in modern societies, beginning with the concept’s
emergence in the eighteenth century and paying particular attention
to the complex role of the genius figure in democratic culture.
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
9:00 Registration&Coffee
9:30 Session3 ArsetIngenium
Moderator: John Brewer (California Institute of Technology)
David Bates (University of California, Berkeley) “The Secret Nature of Insight”
Lennard Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago) “Genius and Obsession: Do You Have to be Mad to be Smart?”
Janet Browne (Harvard University) “Inspiration or Perspiration: Francis Galton’s Hereditary Genius in Victorian Context”
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Session4 GeniusandtheAvant-Garde
Moderator: Kevin Gilmartin (California Institute of Technology)
Irina Sirotkina (Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Moscow) “Cultivating Genius in a Bolshevik Country”
Lucy Delap (Cambridge University) “‘Genius must do the scullery work of the world’: New Women, Feminists, and Genius, c. 1880–1920”
3:30 Roundtable
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8:30 Registration&Coffee
9:30 Welcome Steve Hindle (The Huntington)
Remarks Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University) Darrin McMahon (Florida State University)
Session1 TheProblemofGenius
Moderator: Jacob Soll (University of Southern California)
Darrin McMahon “Genius, Exception, and Evil”
Nathalie Heinich (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) “Genius vs Democracy: Excellence and Singularity in Post-Revolution France”
John Carson (University of Michigan) “Equality, Inequality, and Difference: Genius as Problem and Possibility in American Political/Scientific Discourse”
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Session2 PrometheusBoundandUnbound
Moderator: Margaret Jacob (University of California, Los Angeles)
Joyce Chaplin “Genius in Bondage”
Victoria Olwell (University of Virginia) “Varieties of Genius: Forms of Political Consciousness in Capitalist America”
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
This conference is funded by
The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and
The William French Smith EndowmentCesare Lombroso, The Man of Genius, rev. ed. (London, 1 914). Courtesy of Harvard Law School Library.