SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE OF TALKS AND EVENTS:
Thursday, February 28, 2008:
3:00-7:00 p.m.: Registration
Location: Bowen-Thompson Student Union, BGSU7:00 p.m.: Plenary Talk by W.J.T. Mitchell
(also part of the Provost Lecture Series/ArtTalks)
“Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib”
Location: 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union (Theater), BGSUReception to immediately follow lecture
Friday, February 29, 2008:
(All Friday sessions to be held at the School of Art, BGSU):8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.: Registration
Location: Lobby of School of ArtSession 1, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Optics and Somatics
Session Moderator: Allie Terry
Room 204, School of ArtMatthew Shoaf, “Marble Wounds, Civic Glory: Giovanni Pisano’s Cathedral Pulpit”
Olivia Powell, "Signorelli and the Choreography of Violence"
Christian K. Kleinbub, “The Visual Displacement of Pagan Systems in Renaissance Painting”
Session 2, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Death as/and Spectatorship
Session Moderator: Kelly Watson
Room 204, School of ArtIrina Stakhanova, “Murder and Death in Medieval Russia: Narrating Collective Memory”
Lisa Dickson, “Observances: Performing, Performativity and Metatheatre in The White Devil and The Revengers Tragedy”
Elina Gertsman, “Death by Dance: Word, Image and Violence in the late Medieval Danse Macabre”
Session 3, 1:15-2:45 p.m.
Saints and Devotionals
Session Moderator: Cori Montoya
Room 204, School of ArtLaura Gelfand, “The Next Best Thing to Being There: Imaginative Devotions and Virtual Presence”
Heather Blurton, “Voyeurism and Violence in the Life and Passion of St Willian of Norwich”
Galina Tirnanic, “Image in Pain: Icons, Old Bones, New Blood”
Session 4, 3:00-4:45 p.m.
Throwing Stones
Session Moderator: Christina Guenther
Room 204, School of ArtPaul Gaffney, “Making the King More Monstrous in “Richard Couer de Lyon”
Christina Neilson, “The Renaissance Criminal Mind: Guilt, Violence, and Redemption in Verrocchio’s Beheading of St. John the Baptist”
Lucia Finotto, “Analyzing Anti-Jewish Violence in Late Medieval Sicily. Power, People and Perceptions”
Elena Boeck, “Explaining Images of Imperial Murder in the Madrid-Skylitzes Manuscript”
5:15 p.m.: Bus transfer to the Toledo Museum of Art
6:00 p.m.: Keynote Lecture by Michael Uebel
“Masochism in America”
Little Theater, Toledo Museum of Art7:30-9:30 p.m.: Reception at the Arts Commission of Toledo
Saturday, March 1
(All Saturday sessions to be held at the Bowen-Thompson Student Union)Session 5, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Innocence
Session Moderator: Jolie Sheffer
Room 314, Bowen-Thompson Student UnionDiana Bullen Presciutti, “Picturing Infanticide in the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome”
Kenston Bauman, “The Distaff is Mightier than the Sword: The Wars of the Roses in the Digby Killing of the Children”
Kelly Watson, “Arousing America: Cannibalism and Conquest in the ‘New World’”
Session 6, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Boundaries of the Body
Session Moderator: Piya Lapinski
Room 315, Bowen-Thompson Student UnionWill Stockton, “Is Reading The Unfortunate Traveller a Sex Crime?”
Mary Natvig, “ ‘If you keep silence’: Rape in Giovanni Felice Sances’s Accenti Queruli”
Margaret Rice, “Perspectival Art, Violence, and the Desire to Know in Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece”
Session 7, 10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Fantasy, History, and Nation
Session Moderator: Simon Morgan-Russell
Room 315, Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Winter Elliott, “Beheading and Beholding: The Viewer’s Gaze in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,”
Mark P. Bruce, “Coaching the Witness: The Scottish Chronicler, The Captured poets, and the Battle of Bannockburn”
Anthony Adams, “Discors machina: Gruesome Violence and Chaos in Carolingian Poetry of War”
Jonathan Smith, “The Scandal of Inspiration: Samson and the Problem of Legal Exceptionalism in Early Modern England”
Session 8, 10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Italy
Session moderator: Carlo Celli
Room 316, Bowen-Thompson Student UnionAimee Ng, “Honour and Horror: Rosso Fiorentino’s Sansepolcro Deposition”
Maria Cristina Chiusa, “L’Arte del potere e il martirologio nella pittura italiana del Quarttocentro: la vita e la morte di San Pietro da Verona”
Ronald Shields, “The Rhetoric and Violence of Virtù: Imagining Masculinity on the Venetian Operatic Stage”
Session 9, 1:45-3:30 p.m.
Responding to Violence
Session Moderator: Jim Forse
Room 314, Bowen-Thompson Student UnionAmy Rodgers, “To Fashion a Spectator: Looking, Listening and Learning in Pericles”
Miles Taylor, “Mystical Mist: Comic and Tragic Violence in Arden of Faversham”
William Christopher Brown, “Beholding Patience: The Parrhesia of Violence in Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee”
Edward J. Olszewski, “Righteous Anger in Pollaiuolo’s Engraving of Ten Battling Nude Men”
Session 10, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Warfare and the Body
Session Moderator: Elena Boeck
Room 315, Bowen-Thompson Student UnionElizabeth Williamsen, “The Bloody Bishop of The Sege of Melayne”
Neil Englehart, “Administrative Tattooing: Making the State Visible on the Body”
Brian Sandberg, “ ‘To Have the Pleasure of This Siege’: Witnessing Violence During the European Wars of Religion”
Session 11, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Medievalism and Media
Session Moderator: Andrew Hershberger
Room 316, Bowen-Thompson Student UnionAudrey Becker, “Animating the Mabinogi: Depicting Violence in Film and Interactive Gaming”
Matthew Scribner, “The Performing Poet and the Performing Audience in ‘The Frisian Slaughter’ Episode in Beowulf”
Isaac Vayo, “Time is Tissue: Spectral Violence and the Cellular Gaze in The Unit and
Snakes on a Plane”
3:45-5:15 p.m.: Eileen Joy, Featured Speaker
“That Terribly and Splendidly Made Spectacle: Beholding Our Dead Enemies”
http://www.siue.edu/~ejoy/LevinasBeowulfChapter.htm
Room 308, McMaster Room, Bowen-Thompson Student Union5:15 p.m. Concluding Remarks and Discussion