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From: ==. > To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: PED Seminar: Brian Boyd (Apr. 16th @ 4:00pm) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:14:39 +0000 What I have found out so far: below is from the Radcliffe web site...it is April 13, 14...Brian's paper is part of the workshop with Stephen Greenblatt and Peter Ellison, 9:30am on Saturday in Byerly Hall, room 231. I am told he is to give a talk on one other paper as well during his visit...this is a very small venue by invitation only. I have looked at Brian Boyd's University of Auckland website but do not see anything re his visit to Cambridge...does Brian have another web site? I have a confirm from Sheraton for a room for Brian Boyd for April 10th-17th (you paid for the nights of 15, 16) May Huang is trying to find out more of a schedule for Brian as well... April April 13-14 The Shape of a Human Life Stephen Greenblatt (English, Harvard University) Peter Ellison (Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University) Fiction and evolutionary biology are both narrative•making practices. Each relies on an ordered account of events or facts to establish the connections that create a compelling story. Importantly, too, fiction and evolutionary biology share topical territory: life history theory—the sector of evolutionary biology concerned with the way organisms allocate time and energy among growth, physical maintenance, and reproduction— addresses some of the same conflicts and negotiations that arise in literature, including how parents invest in children and what children salve to elicit from parents; the perils of crossing from juvenility into social and physical maturity: the dance of partnered reproduction: and the refiguring of a life once reproduction ends. The proposed seminar brings together scholars from evolutionary biology and literature to explore areas of amplification and tension across disciplinary accounts of the life course, focusing on parent-offspring conflict, adolescence, the role of the individual, and non-reproductive identities. The exchange will be bi-directional, equipping humanists with tools to re-engage their texts from a life history perspective and outfitting scientists with an expanded understanding of what questions might be put to a biological data set. EFTA00415752 On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: his april 12 th lecture On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:44 AM, I will get itinerary from stephen greenblatt Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Huang, May" < > Date: March 16, 2012 5:24:10 PM EDT To: I G >, < Subject: Fwd: PED Seminar: Brian Boyd (Apr. 16th @ 4:00pm) 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 Evolutions D amics (Martin's institute) at Harvard. i ho e 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.aspx#april 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 Ste hen Greenblatt http://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty via email or phone thanks and have a great weekend! best, May :) May Huang Chief Administrative Officer Program for Evolutionary Dynamics www.ped.fas.harvard.edu Begin forwarded message: EFTA00415753 From: "Wojcik, Michael" < Date: March 16, 2012 4:12:09 PM EDT To: "Allen, Ben'amin" "Blake, Peter Feng" < "Lieberman, Erez Jean-Baptiste" < >, "Pfeiffer, Thomas" "Rand, David" < >, Covina Tarnita < Ivana" < >, "Hill, Alison" < >, "Hauser, Oliver >, Tibor Antal >, "Huang, May" >, "Wojcik, Michael" Subject: PED Seminar: Brian Boyd (Apr. 16th @ 4:00pm) >, >, "Fu, "Michel. >, "Bozic, "Rosenbloom, Daniel" >, "Chung, Hattie" Tore Ellingsen >, Brian Boyd The ogram for Evolutionary Dynamics presents: "Story versus Verse: Convergent versus Open Pattern." by Professor Brian Boyd (Dept. of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand) Abstract: In On 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, verse without narrative. 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 htt ://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/ Office: Fax: EFTA00415754 The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of Jeffrey Epstein Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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