Special thanks to the

Department of French

One-Day Conference

Saturday, March 8th 10am-5pm

The Maison Française

Participating Speakers:

    10:00 AM

Welcome & Light Breakfast

    10:30 AM -12:00 PM

Sharon Cameron

    Johns Hopkins University

"Beauty and Cruelty in Robert Bresson's

'Au hasard Balthazar'"

Jerome Christensen

    University of California, Irvine

"Neo-Corporatism, The Band Wagon, and the Charismatic Margin"

Moderator: Sharon Marcus, Columbia University

    1:45 PM -3:45 PM

Mary Poovey

    New York University

"Charisma and Responsibility in the

University Setting"

Michael Warner

    Yale University

"Preachers and Publics”

Jeff Nunokawa

    Princeton University

"The Work of Charisma in the Age of

Virtual Reproduction"

Moderator: Bruce Robbins, Columbia University

    4:00pm - 5:30pm

Andreas Kalyvas   

    The New School

"Charisma and Democracy in Max Weber"

Eli Zaretsky

    The New School

“Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism”

Moderator: Fred Neuhouser, Barnard College