Call for papers for the 2022 graduate conference: ‘‘What Does the Poem Think?’: Aesthetics, Poetics and Thought’

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A call for papers has been put out for the 2022 post-1750 graduate conference: ‘‘What Does the Poem Think?’: Aesthetics, Poetics and Thought’. Taking its lead from Percy Shelley’s assertion that poetry ‘marks the before unapprehend relations of things’, the call for papers asks respondents to consider the ways and means in which poetry apprehends, formulates, creates and cognizes in a manner unique to itself and irreducible to other forms of reasoning or reflection. The deadline for abstracts is March 6th, with the conference to be held on April 8th in Cambridge. The keynote speaker will be Peli Grietzer, an independent scholar who uses mathematical ideas from machine learning theory to think through the ontology of ‘ambient’ phenomena like moods, vibes, and structures of feeling.

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