Re: PED Seminar: Brian Boyd (Apr. 16th @ 4:00pm)
Ok
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On Mar 20, 2012, at 3:09 PM, wrote:
thanks. I will take care of payment for the last two nights (April 15, 16)
On Mar 19, 2012, at 12:51 PM, Jeffrey epstein wrote:
Yes
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On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:01 PM, wrote:
Please see below re paying for room and advise...
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From: "Huang. May" < Date: March 19, 2012 11:59:22 AM EDT To: Subject: Fwd: PED Seminar: Brian Boyd (Apr. 16th @ 4:00pm)
hello again and [ ] [ ]
the Radcliffe Institute has reserved a room (reservation #278052055) for Brian Boyd at the Sheraton
Commander Hotel http://www.sheratoncommander.corn/ for April 10-17, 2012 and asks about payment for
the last two nights (April 15th and 16th). i believe the rate is $199 per night plus taxes. would you be able
to cover it? if yes, i assume you could phone the hotel with credit card information. please let me know if
this is okay. with many thanks,
May :)
May Huang
cell phone
office phone
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Date: March 16, 2012 5:40:29 PM EDT To: "Huang, May" < Cc: Subject: Re: PED Seminar: Brian Boyd (Apr. 16th @ 4:00pm)
Thank you May. 1 will forward to Jeffrey. Have a great weekend.
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On Mar 16, 2012, at 5:24 PM, "Huang, May" > wrote:
hello and [ ]
Martin Nowak asked me to send you this information (see below) about Brian Boyd's April 16th lecture at the Program for Evolutionary D namics Martin's institute) at Harvard. i hoe that Jeffrey will have time to attend. please call my cell or office (direct line) if i can assist you in any way.
you might already know that Brian Boyd will also be participating in a Radcliffe Institute http://www.radcliffe.edu/academic/seminars2012.aspztiapril seminar ("The Shape of a Human Life" April 13-14) which i believe is by invitation only. for more information about the Radcliffe seminar you could contact the organizer Stephen Greenblatt http://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty via email . thanks and have a great weekend! best, May :)
May Huang
Chief Administrative Officer
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
www.ped.fas.harvard.edu
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Date: March 16, 2012 4:12:09 PM EDT
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Subject: PED Seminar: Brian Boyd (Apr. 16th @ 4:00pm)
The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics presents:
"Story versus Verse: Convergent versus Open Pattern."
by Professor Brian Boyd(Dept. of English, University ofAuckland,New Zealand)
Abstract:
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InOn the Origin of Stories (2009) I proposed that we can find the common features of all the arts if we understand art as cognitive play with pattern. There, I focused on fiction. In its companion piece, Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets (April 2012), I focus on verse. Together these form the two main, often intertwined, strands of literature.
I'd like to build on the difference between these two books to contrast the almost automatic convergence of patterns in fiction, or narrative more generally, and the compounding of patterns upon patterns— patterns athwart or concealed behind other patterns—in verse, especially in lyrics, versewithoutnarrative.
In much of his work Shakespeare weaves both strands together more memorably than anyone else. How can I show the enormous difference between the love lyricism in his greatest romantic comedy and the love lyrics in his Sonnets?Poet Don Paterson, in his buoyant recent book on the Sonnets, assumes that they "have to be read as a narrative of the progress of love." I will suggest, on the contrary, that we need to read them as lyrics, as verse without narrative, where other kinds of patterns come into play, patterns of experience and emotion, image and idea, word and structure, set forms and found freedoms.
When: 4:00pm, Monday, April 16th, 2012
Where: Cambridge, MA 02138 (link to map/directions)
For more info on the PED Seminar Series, please contact:
Michael John Wojcik
Staff Assistant
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/
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