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From: Lesley Groff < Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 6:31 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein CC Subject: Fwd: PED Seminar. Brian Boyd (Apr. 16th @ 4:00pm) Attachments: Shape of a Human Life Radcliffe agenda.docx; Untitled attachment 00105.htm hi Lesley: attached is Radcliffe's tentative agenda that Michael from my =ffice got today from Stephen Greenblatt. in addition to Brian Boyd's =pril 14th (9:30am) paper presentation, the agenda shows that Brian Boyd =ill be responding to another paper on April 13th (10:15am). should Michael inquire with Stephen Greenblatt about getting =effrey invited to either/both of those sessions? thanks, May :) Subject: =/b>PED Seminar: Brian Boyd (Apr. 16th @ =:00pm) The Program for Evolutionary =ynamics presents: "Story versus Verse: Convergent versus Open =attern." by Professor =rian Boyd (Dept. of English, University =f Auckland, New Zealand) Abstract: In On the Origin of Stories (2009) I proposed that =e can find the common features of all the arts if we understand art as =ognitive play with pattern. There, I focused on fiction. In its =ompanion piece, Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets (April 2012), I focus on verse. =ogether these form the two main, often intertwined, strands of =iterature. I'd like to build on the difference between these two books to =ontrast the almost automatic convergence of patterns in fiction, or =arrative more generally, and the compounding of patterns upon =atterns—patterns athwart or concealed behind other patterns—in verse, especially in lyrics, =erse without narrative. In much of his work Shakespeare weaves both strands together more =emorably than anyone else. How can I show the enormous difference =etween the love lyricism in his greatest romantic comedy and the love =yrics 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 =ove." I will suggest, on the contrary, that we need to read them as =yrics, as verse without narrative, where other kinds of patterns come into play, patterns of experience and =motion, image and idea, word and structure, set forms and found =reedoms. When: 4:00pm, Monday, April 16th, 2012 EFTA_R1_01991114 EFTA02681095 Where: 1 Brattle Square, 6th floor, Cambridge, =A 02138 (link to =ap/directions <http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/locationk ) For more info on the PED Seminar =eries, please contact: [email protected] Michael John Wojcik Staff Assistant Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University 1 Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 <http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/> http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/</=> Room 623 Office: (617) 496-4737 Fax: (617) 496-4629 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] 2 EFTA_R1_01991115 EFTA02681096