author.net: a cross-divisional conference on distributed authorship - 05-06/10/2018, Los Angeles (CA
Distributed authorship is a familiar concept in many fields of cultural production. Long associated with pre-modern cultures, it still serves as a mainstay for the study of Classical antiquity, which takes 'Homer' as its foundational point of orientation, and which, like many other disciplines in the humanities, has extended its insights into the open-endedness of oral and performance traditions into its study of textual dynamics as well. The rise of genetic criticism within textual studies bears witness to this urge to fray perceptions of the hermetic closure of the written, and to expose the multiple strands of collaboration and revision that a text may contain. And the increasingly widespread use of the multitext in literary editions of authors from Homer to Joyce offers a material manifestation of this impulse to display the multiple different levels and modes of distribution at work in the authorial process. In many areas of the humanities that rely on traditional textual media, then, the distributed author is alive and well, and remains a current object of study.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 05-06/10/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of California in los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Sean Gurd (Professor of Classics, University of Missouri); Francesca Martelli (Assistant Professor of Classics, UCLA)
INFO: gurds@missouri.edu
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Gratis/free/gratuito
Se ruega enviar un email a /please contact /sono pregati di inviare una e-mail a fmartelli@humnet.ucla.edu.
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Friday, October 5
9.15-9.30: Welcome
9.30-11.30: Nandini Pandey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Anxieties of Distributed Authorship in the Vergilian Vita Tradition
Joseph Howley, University of Columbia
Not evenly distributed: pursuing 'the author' in Roman book slavery
1.00-3.00: Scott McGill, Rice University
Mega-Intertextuality: Writing and Reading Vergilian Centos
Alexis Crawshaw and Marcos Novak, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bridging the Ancient to the Digital Contemporary through Algorithmic Intertextuality
3.15-5.15: Pia Carolla, Universita Roma Tre
Distributed Authorship and Authoritative Texts; an Imperial Collection
Sandeep Bhagwati, Concordia University, Montreal
Notwithstanding Unique. Intertwined Authorship in Musical Comprovisation
Saturday, October 6
9.30-11.30: Dorota Dutsch, University of California, Santa Barbara
Novelty and Meaning in a Pseudo-Pythagorean Network
Mario Biagioli, University of California, Davis
Ghostly Collaborations: making up co-authors in the age of big science
1.00-300: Daniel Selden, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Worlding of the Life of Ahiqar
Sergio Basso, Universita Roma Tre
The Barlaam and Joasaph - a New Paradigm Theory for its Formation
3.15-5.15: Francesca Martelli, University of California, Los Angeles
"Cicero's" Letters and the Selfie
Simon Biggs, University of South Australia
Distributed Authorship, Machine Learning and the heterogeneous Posthuman (dancing) subject