Author.net: A Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Authorship

 

Luskin Conference Center, UCLA

October 5-6, 2018

Organized by Francesca Martelli (UCLA) and Sean Gurd (University of Missouri, Columbia)

PROGRAM

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, Columbia University

Not evenly distributed: pursuing “the author” in Roman book slavery

 

1:00-3:00

Scott McGill, Rice University

Mega-Intertextuality: Writing and Reading Virgilian 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, Università Roma Tre

Distributed authorship & authoritative texts; an imperial collection

 

Sandeep Bhagwati, Concordia University Montréal

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

 

1:00-3:00

Daniel Selden, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Worlding of the Life of Aḥiqar

 

Sergio Basso, Università Roma Tre

The Barlaam and Joasaph – a new paradigm theory for its formation

 

3:15-5:15

Francesca Martelli, UCLA

“Cicero’s” Letters and the Selfie

 

KEYNOTE:

Simon Biggs, University of South Australia

Distributed authorship, Machine learning And the heterogeneous Posthuman (dancing) subject.