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A Thousand Words:
Visual Culture and the Humanities
30 March - 1 April 2006
College
Station Hilton Hotel
and
Conference Center
Conference
Director: Melanie Hawthorne
This conference addresses the relationship of images to other forms of human expression and thought. Scholars from a range of disciplines engage with issues such as the connections between the visual, the written, and the aural in representations of history and memory; the ways in which images may be translated from or into music and literature; the role of the visual in the creation of subjectivity; and the implications of digital media for paradigms of thought.
The conference has been arranged so that participants can attend all keynote lectures, panels of shorter papers, open discussions, and performances.
All sessions will be held in the Brazos Amphitheater at the College Station Hilton Hotel and Conference Center except where noted.
A printable schedule can be found here.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, 30 March 2006
7:30 - 9:00 p.m. WELCOMING REMARKS
James M. Rosenheim, Director, The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University
Pamela Matthews, Associate Dean of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Introduction: Robert Griffin, English, Texas A&M University
Frances Ferguson, English, Johns Hopkins University: Weighted Representations: The Auto-Icon, the Icon, and Reality
9:00 p.m. Reception with Cash Bar
FRIDAY, 31 March 2006
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:30a.m. PICTURING BOOKS
Chair: Patrick Burkart, Communication, Texas A&M University
Michael Kreyling, English, Vanderbilt University: The Author Photograph and Paratextual Function
Rebecca Sheehan, Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania: The Errant Indexicality of Peirce’s Manuscripts: How Howe’s ‘Pierce-Arrow’ Reads Moving Images
Charles W. Hatfield, English, California State University, Northridge: The Burning Hand: The Improbable Career and Contested Legacy of Jack Kirby
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. WRITING ON THE WALL
Chair: Anne Morey, English, Texas A&M University
Eszter Szalczer, Theater, State University of New York, Albany: The Art of Unmasking or How to Make Things Visible with Words Words Words
Katherine Gantz, International Languages and Cultures, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Site-seeing with Haussmann, or A Second Look at Second Empire of Paris
Elizabeth Ho, English, Texas A&M University: Alternate Cartographies of Hong Kong: The Street Calligraphy of Tsang Tsou Choi, the ‘King of Kowloon’
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Introduction: Mary Ann O’Farrell, Department of English, Texas A&M University
Carol Mavor, Department of Art History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: ‘Summer Was Inside the Marble’: Marguerite Duras’s and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Afternoon Break: Coffee, Tea and Soda
3:30 - 4:15 p.m. WATCHING TELEVISION
Chair: Donnalee Dox, Performance Studies, Texas A&M University
Lynne Joyrich, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University: All Washed Up? Mourning the Television Soap Opera
Susan McLeland, Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas, Austin: Brangelina v. Team Aniston: Images as Weapons in the Battle for Public Opinion
4:15 - 4:30 Afternoon Break
4:30 - 5:15 p.m. OBSERVING THE CLASSROOM
Chair: James Rosenheim, History, Texas A&M University
John Pedro Schwartz and Olin Bjork, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin: Visual Culture in Rhetoric and Composition: A Report from the Field
B. Stephen Carpenter, II and G. Patrick Slattery, Jr., Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture, Texas A&M University: Images of Social Justice and Democracy as Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Visual Culture and Public Pedagogy
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. FILM - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Brazos Amphitheater
SATURDAY, 1 April 2006
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. READING MATERIALS
Chair: Troy Bickham, History, Texas A&M University
Janis Bergman-Carton, Art History, Southern Methodist University: Unevolved: La Revue Blanche and its Mutations
Christopher Reed, Art History, Lake Forest College: Design for [Queer] Living: The Visual and Textual Culture of British Vogue in the Twenties
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Introduction: Gregor Kalas, Architecture, Texas A&M University
Bruce Redford, Art History and English, Boston University: The Portrait as Social Text in Georgian England
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 p.m. LOOKING AT THINGS: FISH, POTS, CAMERAS, AND MIRRORS
Chair: José Villalobos, Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University
Judith Hamera, Performance Studies, Texas A&M University: Fish Stories: Aquaria, Performance, and Parlor Science
Damien Stocking, English and Comparative Literary Studies, Occidental College: Thrown: Figurations of the Self in Greek Pottery and Poetry
Barbara Audet, Communication and Journalism, Auburn University: A Polar Shift in Human Behavior: Capturing Images in the Digital Environment
Eric Caldwell, English, University of Virginia: Elizabethan Poetics and the Specular Economy of Renaissance Subjectivity
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Reception - J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries at Texas A&M University (Transportation will be provided)
6:00 - 8:00 - Dinner on your own
7:30 - 9:30 p.m. PERFORMANCE by Teatro Luna: S-E-X-Oh! Rudder Forum (Transportation will be provided back to the Hilton Hotel after the performance.) For more information see Teatro Luna.
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