Aesthetics / Class / Worlds
2nd
Annual Conference of the Department of Cultural Studies
and
Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota
October
14-15, 2011
Keynote
Lectures (in Coffmann Union, Mississippi Room):
10/14 (7 pm):
Kristin Ross (New York University)
10/15 (4:45
pm): Eric Cazdyn (University of Toronto)
friday 10/14
8:30 Registration and breakfast,
Nicholson Hall 135. After 9 registration will be in Nicholson 364.
9:00-10:30
Panel session I
1.
(Nicholson 135): Marxism Now
Chair: Sara Saljoughi (University of Minnesota)
Edgar
Illas (Indiana University), “The Procrustean Bed of Class Struggle”
Nicholas Holm (McMaster University), “The Style of the Times: The Political
Work of Mass Aesthetics”
Oded Nir
(Ohio State University), “Totality, Globalization, Culture”
2. (Nich
325): The Politics of Creativity I: History, Creativity, Power
Chair: Thomas O. Haakenson
(Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
Thomas O. Haakenson, “Interdisciplinarity and the Reproduction of
Knowledge: The ‘Crisis” in American Higher Education”
Piotr
Szyhalski (MCAD), "Theaters of Operations: Three projects about war and language"
Gretchen
Gasterland-Gustafsson, (MCAD), “The Aesthetics of Home: From the Bauhaus to
Funkis”
10:40-12:10 Panel session II
3. (Nich
135): Aesthetics of Neoliberalism
Chair: Brendan McGillicuddy
(University of Minnesota)
Ricky Crano (Ohio State University), “From the Chicago School to the
Smart Phone: Rethinking the Legacies of Wiener and Hayek”
Ruoyun Bai (University of Toronto), “Neoliberalization of
Chinese Television and Heroes of the Reform”
Calvin
Hui (Duke University), “China, or, the People’s Republic of Capitalism”
4. (Nich
325): Facing Literary Worlds
Chair: Courtney Gildersleeve (University of
Minnesota)
Nadine Attewell (McMaster University), “Thinking
Otherwise: Displacement, Postcoloniality, and Utopian Desire”
Jarad Zimbler (Wolfson College, Oxford), “Neither Progress nor
Regress: The Emergence of J.M. Coetzee’s Bare Prose Style”
Ziad Suidan (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Politics of Exile
in Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘They Don’t Look Behind Them’”
12:10-1:30 Lunch
break (on your own)
1:30-3:00 Panel
session III
5. (Nich
135): Bodies that Work, Bodies that Feel
Chair: Niels Niessen (University of Minnesota)
Alexander Monea (Bowling Green State University), “Rereading Mass
Inertia: The Politics of Affect and the Biopower of Aesthetics and Desire”
Carolyn Veldstra (McMaster University), “Cynicism: The Structure of Late
Capitalism, Lived and Felt”
Simon Orpana (McMaster University), “The Aesthetics of Dispensability:
Biopolitics and the Art of Exploitation in Ninni Holmqvist’s novel The Unit”
6. (Nich
115):
Aesthetics: Between Philosophy and Politics
Chair: Andrea Gyenge (University
of Minnesota)
Daniel Benson (New York University), “Aesthetic Emancipation in Georg
Lukács and Jacques Rancière”
Jensen Suther (Elon University), “Adorno and Beckett:
Immanence of Negativity”
Michael Fares (University of Texas at Austin), “The ‘Philosophical
Novel’ Genre in Medieval Islamic Literature: A Case for the Importance of
Subjective Experience in the Human Quest for Knowledge”
3:10-4:40 Panel
session IV
7. (Nich
135): Art/Politics/Space
Chair: Emily Fedoruk (University of Minnesota)
Steve Waksman (Smith College), “Toward a History of Liveness: Musical
Performance and Public Life in the U.S.”
Cecile G. Paskett (University of Utah), “Radical Performance within
Installation Art: Impacts on Surveillance and Identities”
Adair Rounthwaite (University of Minnesota), “Audience as Constituency,
Audience as Event: Institutionality, Activism and Art 1988-89”
8. (Nich
325): Reading Political Narratives
Chair: Michelle Baroody
(University of Minnesota)
David Janzen (University of Western Ontario), “The Recourse of
Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Disidentification”
Agnes Malinowska (University of Chicago), “Madness, Aesthetics, and
Fin-de-siècle American Capitalism in the Novels of Frank Norris”
Eun Joo Kim (University of Minnesota), “Alternate Forms, Practices,
and Spaces of Literacy in Push and Blu’s Hanging”
4:40-7:00 Dinner
(on your own)
7:00-8:30 Keynote address by
Prof. Kristin Ross (New York University),”Communal Luxury.” Location: Coffman
Union-Mississippi room
8:30 Reception
saturday 10/15
10:00-11:30 Panel session V
9. (Nich
135): America, Utopia
Chair: Christian Haines (University of Minnesota)
Jeremy Buesink (McMaster University), “The Interconnected
Apocalyptic-Utopian Ideals of Christianity, Americanism, and Militarism, and
the Aesthetics of the Patriotic Pep Rally”
Matthew Lambert (Carnegie Mellon University), “Frank Capra’s Utopian
‘Lost Cause’: Pastoral Aesthetic Beauty and Class in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”
Sean Nye (University of Minnesota), “1984/1989: Mobility, Aesthetics,
and Social Science Fiction”
10.
(Nich 325): Collectivity in Global Space
Chair: Justin Butler (University of Minnesota)
Tim
Corballis (University of Auckland), “Rancière in the Antipodes”
Olive Mckeon (University
of California-Los Angeles), “How to Dance a Riot: On the Aesthetics of Struggle”
Jessica Elaine Reilly (University of Western Ontario), “The
(Aesthetic) Right to the City: Urban ‘Worlds’ and the Melted Proletariat of
Liquid Modernity”
11:40-1:10 Panel
session VI
11.
(Nich 135): Cinema, Revolution
Chair: Thorn Chen (University of
Minnesota)
Julia Alekseyeva (Harvard University), “The Ethics of Propaganda:
Estrangement and Dziga Vertov’s Kino-Eye”
José Miguel Palacios (New York University), “pueblo, people, popular: Class and
Spectatorship in Chilean Revolutionary Cinema”
Niels Niessen (University of Minnesota), “access denied: Godard Palestine Representation”
12.
(Nich 325): The Politics of Creativity II: Reimagined Community
Chair: Thomas O. Haakenson
(Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
Patricia Healy McMeans (MCAD), “Contemporary Artist/Audience
Collaboration and its Discontents: Or, Where Bourriaud Went Wrong, and Santiago
Sierra's Pissed Off, or Should Be”
Ruth Voights (MCAD), “The Trickster as Political Subversive in Native
American Art: The Writings of Gerald Vizenor”
George Hoagland (University of Minnesota-Duluth), "Paul Beatty,
Myth, and Resistance"
1:10-2:30 Lunch
break (on your own)
2:30-4:00 Panel
session VII
13.
(Nich 135): The Image in Crisis
Chair: Akshya Saxena (University
of Minnesota)
Katherine Lawless (University of Western Ontario), “Marcelo Brodsky
and the Politics of Trauma”
Rachel Schaff (University of Minnesota), “The Holodrama: Dialectic of
Historicized Pathos and Action”
Ilona Molnar (York University), “Silence
on the Scene: Metonymy and Melancholy in the Wake of Regime Change”
14.
(Nich 325): Techno/logic
Chair: to be announced
Robert Wilkie (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), “Gaming Ideology:
Labor and Class in the ‘Ludo Economy’”
Kimberly DeFazio (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), “Tool Aesthetics
and the Humanities”
Eiland Glover (Georgia State University), “Thinging Thing, Worlding
World: Viaggio in Italia’s Deictic
Cinema as Model for a Radical Humanities”
4:45-6:15 Keynote address by
Prof. Eric Cazdyn (University of Toronto),
“The Praxis Image.” Location:
Coffman Union-Mississippi room.
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