To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
The Art and Theory of Dreaming
A Conference Presented by the 2006-07
Cohort of Honors Students in English
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
11:30 - 2
Campbell Dome
Click below to see preliminary role assignments for the conference. These may still shift. You may trade roles with another student, or request a change (though I can't guarantee we can make the change).
Moderators should think about coming up with two-minute introductions (about a double-spaced page) to the panels. These will need to get people interested, provide some kind of context for the presentations, and introduce the speakers. They'll need to be crisp and efficient, but also substantive.
Roundtable speakers will need to prepare focused three-minute presentations and choose images that will scroll behind them as they speak. The presentations should address the central question of the roundtable very directly and explicitly.
Panelists will prepare five-minute presentations based on their research (and now web) projects. These presentations will also need to be focused and efficient. They should establish motive, articulate an argument or central claim very clearly, and offer one or two pieces of interesting evidence to illustrate the argument.
Un Chien Andalou plays while people enter, volume high, lights dim; students at the door hand out programs.
Introduction: John
As conference begins, images begin to scroll by on a screen behind the speakers, thematically linked to their presentations.
Roundtable 1: Dream Theory 101: Do Dreams Have Meaning?
Moderator: Bob
5 Speakers, each with one dream theory: Aneesa (on Freud), Anthony (on Jung), Asif (on Hartmann), Megan (on Hobson), Rebecca (on Deirdre Barrett)
Transition: Music
Panel 1: Literary Dreams I: Pre-Modern
Introduction: John
Scott
Charlotte
Melody
Transition: Music
Roundtable 2: Words and Pictures: Representing the Elusive Dream
Moderator: Marwan
5 speakers: Tina (on the blogs or Bronte or Jung), Doreen (on Ishiguro), Caroline (on Dali or Dzama or Tomaselli or Bourgeois), Melissa (on anime), Maria (on Hitchcock or Bergman)
Transition: Music
Panel 2: Literary Dreams II: Modern & Postmodern
Introduction: John
Alex
Kim
Sylvia
Transition: Music
Closing Remarks: John
Un Chien Andalou comes back on as people exit, lights dim.