On Thursday, the conference is in the Social Sciences Tea Room (224), at the corner of S. University and E. 59th St. (http://maps.uchicago.edu/mainquad/social.html).
On Friday, the conference is in the Cochrane Woods Arts Center Room 153, on S. Greenwood Ave between E. 55th and E. 56th St. (http://maps.uchicago.edu/north/cw_arts.html)
Check this blog throughout the next two days for last minute updates.
Thursday, November 10
8: 30 – 9:00am Social Sciences Tea Room
Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 am Social Sciences Tea Room
Introduction
9:15 – 11:20am Social Sciences Tea Room
Panel 1: Reconstructing Damaged Life
Moderator: Shannon Mariotti
Jana Schmidt, “Figures of Passivity”
Elizabeth Brogden, “Damaged Lives, Adorno, New Critics”
Noah Rosenblum, “Coming to America” Christopher Malcolm, “Exile, Affirmation, and Negative Dialectics”
11:20 – 11:40am Social Sciences Tea Room
Coffee
11:40am – 1:00pm Social Sciences Tea Room
Panel 2: Languages of Anti-Fascism
Moderator: Bill Brown
Casey Michael Henry, “From Pagan to Particle” Michael Hessel-Mial, “Concrete Poetry and the Cybernetic Fold”
1:00 – 2:00pm Social Sciences Tea Room
Lunch
2:00 – 4:00pm Social Sciences Tea Room
Panel 3: European Modernism, American Modernity
Moderator: Adrienne Brown
Jake Cowan, “European Exclusion, Intrusion, and Allusion” Gemma Goodale-Sussen, “The Startlet--Spangled
Acrobat” Douglas Duhaime, “Dos Passos, The Big Money, and the Pluralist Novel”
4:30 – 6:00pm Social Sciences 401
American Cultures and Social Theory Workshops: Shannon Mariotti
4:30 – 6:00 pm CWAC 157
Contemporary Art and Mass Culture Workshops: Lutz Koepnick
Friday, November 11
8: 30 – 9:00am CWAC Lounge
Breakfast
9:00 – 11:00am CWAC 153
Panel 4: Designing Democracy
Moderator: Jeffrey Lieber
Rebecca Uchill, “Alexander Dorner’s ‘Living Museum’”
Sean Cummings, “The American Built Environment and the Transmutation of the European Fascistic Impulse”
Ana Maria Leon, “Exhibiting Politics”
11:00 – 11:20am CWAC Lounge
Coffee
11:20am – 1:00pm CWAC 153
Panel 5: European Cinemas and American Genres
Moderator: Lutz Koepnick
Andrew Young, “Individual Against the Crowd”
Jesse Cordes Selbin, “Spatializations of Fear in Modern American Cinema”
Kirsty Dootson “Sort of a False Western”
1:00 – 2:00pm CWAC Lounge
Lunch
2:00 – 4:00pm CWAC 153
Panel 6: Modernist Aesthetics, Mass Markets
Moderator: Jay Curley
Hyewon Yoon, “Exile at Work”
Sarah Fay McCarthy, “Craft Talk” Noelle Belanger, “Futurism at the Panama Pacific
International Exposition”
4:00 – 4:20pm
Break
4:30 – 6:00 pm CWAC 157
Roundtable with: Adrienne Brown, Bill Brown, Jay Curley, Lutz Koepnick, Jeffrey Lieber, and Shannon Mariotti
6:00 – 7:00 pm CWAC Lounge
Reception
Participant Bios
Panel 1: Languages of Anti-Fascism
Casey Henry, “From Primitive to Particle: The Mythical Method and Quantum Aesthetics in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach.”
Casey Michael Henry is currently a PhD student in English at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His interests include intersections of science and aesthetics, multimodal fiction, and the emergent field of electronic literature.
Michael Hessel-Mial, “Concrete Poetry and the Cybernetic Fold: The Post-War Reconstruction of Language”
Michael Hessel-Mial was born in Wisconsin and took his B.A. in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. He is presently a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at Emory University, where he is pursuing research in 20th-century experimental writing, media theory and science studies. Areas of special interest include perception, categorization, emergent form, and affect. He also works as an archival assistant at Emory's Manuscript Archive and Rare Book Library.
Panel 2: Reconstructing Damaged Life
Jana Schmidt, “Figures of Passivity”
Jana V. Schmidt is a PhD student at the Department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Buffalo. She completed her undergraduate work in Gender Studies and American Studies at the Humboldt and Free Universities in Berlin and she holds an MA in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Brogden, “Adorno in America: Emigration and the Poetics of Damage”
Elizabeth Brogden is a fourth-year graduate student in English literature at Johns Hopkins University.
Noah Rosenblum, “Coming to America: Hannah Arendt, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Role of Thought in Postwar America”
Noah Rosenblum is a graduate student in history at Columbia University, where he studies modern European and American intellectual history. His research interests include democratic theory, ethics, political development, and the history of modern Western social thought. He is currently working on a study of the transformation of European political ideas in America in the post-WWII era.
Christopher Malcolm, “Exile, Affirmation, and Negative Dialectics”
Christopher is a Ph.D. student at the Social and Political Thought program at York University in Toronto.
Panel 3: European Modernism, American Modernity
Jake Cowan, “European Exclusion, Intrusion, and Allusion”
My academic interests include the Epic tradition—especially Dante, Wagner and Joyce—the interplay of aesthetics and metaphysics, the shift from Modernity to whatever you want to call what follows, and critiques of contemporary culture of the Zizekian sort. Currently I reside in Texas and am taking a year-long break away from academia to write an autobiographical novel about my experience as student of the UChicago Divinity School.
Gemma Goodale-Sussen, “The Startlet—Spangled Acrobat”
Gemma Goodale-Sussen is a graduate student in English at the University of Iowa. She is interested in Russian writing, American writing, and one day reading for fun again.
Douglas Duhaime, “Dos Passos, The Big Money, and the Pluralist Novel”
Douglas Duhaime is a first year doctoral student in English at the University of Notre Dame. He has recently finished a study of the Black Mountain poets and their relationship to scientific discourse, and is currently researching the intersections of modernist American literature and radical politics. The paper he is presenting today, "Dos Passos, The Big Money, and the Pluralist Novel," grows out of this latter field of inquiry.
Panel 4: Designing Democracy
Rebecca Uchill, “Alexander Dorner’s ‘Living Museum’”
Rebecca Uchill is a PhD student of History, Theory, and Criticism of Art at MIT, where she studies the institutional conditions for contemporary art production, display and dissemination. She is co-founder of the Boston-based cultural event series Experience Economies, where she most recently organized artist Tania Bruguera's visit to Occupy Boston. Previously she was Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She is author and editor of On Procession: Art on Parade (Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2009) and Adrian Schiess: Elusive (Klaus Kehrer Verlag, 2007), and is a contributor to ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, Visual Resources, and Art Papers.
Sean Cummings, “The American Built Environment and the Transmutation of the European Fascistic Impulse”
Ana Maria Leon, “Exhibiting Politics”
Ana María León is a PhD candidate at the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art group at MIT. She has a Diploma in Architecture from the Universidad Católica de Guayaquil, a Master in Architecture from Georgia Tech, and a Master in Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has practiced as an architect and taught architecture studios and seminars in Ecuador and the United States. Her research deals with other modernities: alternative histories, unrealized plans; and the modernities of others: agency and production, political designs vs. theoretical agendas. Her dissertation deals with Surrealist groups in South America during World War II.
Panel 5: European Cinemas and American Genres
Andrew Young, “Individual Against The Crowd: Fury, Vigilantism, and the Langian Critique of Community Identity”
Andrew Young is a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California - Los Angeles. He is co-author of the Chicano Studies Research Center report "Commercial Talk Radio and Hate Speech Social Networks" and has been published in the Mediascape Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. His current research focuses on representations of violence and trauma in post-genocidal cultures, particularly reconciliatory discourse in Rwandan cultural production.
Jesse Cordes Selbin, “A Tidings of Magpies: The Birds’ “Cute” Children and the Ventriloquized Object’s Revolt”
Jesse Cordes Selbin is a graduate student in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Lately she has been interested in questions of affect and aesthetic categories in 19th and 20th century literature.
Kirsty Dootson “Sort of a False Western”
Kirsty Dootson's work explores the construction and representation of space and time in late nineteenth and early twentieth century visual culture. She holds a BA and Mphil in History of Art from Cambridge University, an MA in Film Studies from Warwick University, and in 2007 was the Henry Fellow at Yale University. She currently works at the British Film Institute in London.
Panel 6: Modernist Aesthetics, Mass Markets
Hyewon Yoon, “Exile at Work: The photographs of Lotte Jacobi from the 1920 to the 1970s”
Hyewon Yoon is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Harvard University. She is working on her dissertation, which deals with modern exile and artistic transfers through the works of three European female émigré photographers, Lotte Jacobi, Gisèle Freund, and Lisette Model. Her primary research interests include Weimar/Surrealism Photography, the question of interiority in modernist photography, and the issue of subjectivity in modern artistic exile.
Sarah Fay McCarthy, “Craft Talk”
Sarah Fay's work has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, The Paris Review, Bookforum, The American Scholar, the Believer, The Missouri Review, and on TIME.com, among others. She is an editorial associate at The Paris Review and a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Iowa.
Noelle Belanger, “The Representability of Time: An Investigation of the Conflict Between European and American Modernism at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915”
Noelle Belanger is a second year M.A. candidate at the University of Alberta in the Art History department. Her main research focuses are the early-twentieth century European Avant-Garde, American World's Fairs and theories of disability and technology relating to contemporary art.
