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Conference on the Evolution of American Marriage in Law and Literature

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Add to Calendar 2023-04-28 08:45:00 2023-04-29 15:00:00 Conference on the Evolution of American Marriage in Law and Literature Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/conference-evolution-american-marriage-law-and-literature - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public —
Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the public

Louise Glück’s keynote, “Meadowlands,” will be held in the Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom. All other sessions will be held in Classroom V.

Program

  • Friday, April 28, 2023
    • Opening Remarks
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    • Session 1: The Promise of Marriage
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      • Lee Anne Fennell, “Owning Marriage in Robinson’s Gilead Novels”

        Saul Levmore, “Investments in The Magnificent Ambersons: Business, Marriage, and Law-Making”

    • Session 2: Same-Sex Marriage
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      • David M. Halperin & Roger Mathew Grant, “Queer Marriage v. the Aesthetics of Unseriousness”

        Martha C. Nussbaum, “’A Kind of Painful Progress’: Angels in America and the Possibility of Truth in Marriage”

    • Keynote: Louise Glück
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      • Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom

      • Louise Glück is a poet who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. She will present “Meadowlands,” a reading of poems revolving around and touching upon marriage. A short Q&A will follow her presentation. Lunch is included.

    • Session 3: Culture and Marriage
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      • Seebany Datta-Barua & Jonathan Masur, “Love and Distance in Indian-American Literature”

        Malavika Parthasarathy, “The Making of an ‘American’ Marriage in The Namesake”

        Richard H. McAdams, “Who’s Afraid of Childless Marriage?”

    • Dinner
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      • Bar David
  • Saturday, April 29, 2023
    • Session 4: Interracial Marriage
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      • Randall L. Kennedy, “James Alan McPherson on Interracial Intimacy Including Marriage”

        Alison L. LaCroix, “’What Right Has Public Opinion to Interfere with Our Marriage Relations?’: Interracial Union, the Civil War, and Memory in the Fiction of Frances E.W. Harper and Charles W. Chestnutt”

        Farah Peterson, “Alone with Kindred, or, Why Is There So Little Literature of Interracial Marriage in the Twentieth Century?”

    • Lunch
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    • Session 5: Marriage and Divorce
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      • Hendrik A. Hartog, “Marriage in Madison in the 1980s: Historicizing an Old Book”

        Laura M. Weinrib, “Beyond the Best Interests of Billy Kramer: Psychoanalysis and the Divorce Revolution in Law and Literature”

        Matthew Zipf, “Equality as a Feint: Philip Roth and Alimony Law”