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  Riga    
  TUESDAY    
  15.00 Registration  
  17:00 Conference Opening (Welcome Remarks)  
  17:30 Keynote: Daina Taimina (Cornell University)
  19:00 Reception
  WEDNESDAY  
  09:00-10:30 Parallel Paper Sessions 1
  10:30-11:00 Break
  11:00-12:30 Keynote: Catherine Malabou
(Université Paris-X Nanterre)

(Introduced by Joseph Tabbi)
  12:30-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Roundtable: "Sensation in Worlds: Impersonal Texture and Aesthetic Experience"
(Organizer: Thomas Lamarre)

Papers by: Vicki Kirby, Thomas Lamarre, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Steven Shaviro,
and Sha Xin Wei

  16:00-16:30 Break
  16:30-18:00 Parallel paper sessions 2 (90 min.)
  20:00-22:00 Satellite events (author-meets-critics sessions; editorial board meetings; artists talks, readings, performances, etc.)
  THURSDAY  
  09:00-10:30 Roundtable session on Catherine Malabou's book What Should We Do With Our Brains (Que faire de notre cerveau?)

Participants: Yves Abrioux, Stefan Herbrechter, and Vicki Kirby

  10:30-11:00 Break
  11:00-12:30 Parallel paper sessions 3 (90 min.)
  12:30-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Parallel Roundtable Sessions:

1. "Literature and Medicine: The State of the Field 2010" (Chair: George Rousseau)
Participants: Stefan Besser, Gavin Budge, Franziska Gyax, George Rousseau, David Shuttelton, and Victoria Tischler

2. Beyond the Grid (Architextures Roundtable)

  16:00-16:30 Break
  16:30-18:00 Parallel paper sessions 4 (90 min.)
  20:00 -22:00 Satellite events
  FRIDAY  
  09:00-10:30 Parallel paper sessions 5
  11:00-12:30 Keynote: Joanna Zylinska
  12:30-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Roundtable Session (120 min.)
  16:00-16:30 Break
  16:30-18:00 Parallel paper sessions 6 (90 min.)
  20:00-open Conference dinner
  SATURDAY  
    Keynote: Art as Research