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Lectures:
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Lectures:
2000
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Winter/Spring 2008
January 17-18: Montreal, Canada. Concordia University, Inaugural
Lecture for the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture:
“Cloning Terror”. Contact: Maurice Charland [Maurice.Charland@concordia.ca]
January 24-25: University of Toronto. “Cloning Terror”: Keynote address
to symposium on “War, Terror, and Visual Culture.” Contact: John Ricco
[jpricco@mac.com].
February 28: Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Provost Lecture
for the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, plenary address to
conference, “Beholding Violence: Representation in Medieval and Renaissance Culture.” Contact: Allie Terry [alterry@bgsu.edu].
March 1-3: Karlsruhe, Germany. Zentrum für Kultur und Medien (ZKM).
Lecture/performance for meta-symposium, “Our Literal Speed.”
Contact: Antonia Marten [marten@zkm.de].
March 16-17: Ramat Gan, Israel. Fifth Annual International Shenkar
Conference: Contested Landscape. Keynote Address: “Landscape and
Conflict.” Contact: Larry Abramson [Larry@012.net.il].
March 27-8: University of Illinois. Annual conference of the Illinois Program
for Research in the Humanities. Keynote address: “Cloning Terror: The
War of Images 9-11 to the Present.” Contact: Christine Catanzarite
[catanzar@uiuc.edu].
April 10: University of Tennesse, Knoxville. Contemporary Arts and Society
lecture, “Cloning Terror.” Contact: Alexis Boylan [aboylan@utk.edu].
April 23: Columbia University, NYC. Colloquium on “Image Theory” with
Jacques Ranciere. Contact: Akeel Bilgrami [ab41@columbia.edu].
June 9-July 30: Leverhulme Distinguished Professor, University of
Nottingham School of Geography. Contact: Stephen Daniels
[Stephen.Daniels@nottingham.ac.uk]
June 12-13: University of Sussex. Title To Be Announced. Inaugural Lecture
for the Centre for Visual Fields. Contact: Lindsay Smith [l.j.smith@sussex.ac.uk].
June 18-22: University of California, Riverside: Raymond Schwager Keynote
Speaker for conference on “Catastrophe and Conversion: Political Thinking for
the New Millennium,” with René Girard and Gianni Vattimo. Contact: Robert
Doran [rdoran@middlebury.edu].

2000
(Past Lectures)
September
15: Keynote Address, "Romanticism and the Life of Things,"
for the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Tempe, Arizona.
September
29: Silberberg Lecture, Institute of Fine Art, New York University:
"Reflections
on
'Sensation'"
October 14: Mt. Holyoke College:
"Defining Moments of Modernism," symposium with T. J.
Clark and Tamar Garb.
November
3: Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of Fine Arts, New York
University.
Lecture on "The Surplus Value of Images."
November
6: Panel discussion of Spike Lee's Bamboozled, Kennedy
School of Government,
Harvard University (with Stanley Crouch, Carrie Mae Weems, and Spike
Lee).
November
16: Cooper Union Presidential Inaugural.
Lecture on Art and Technology.
December
7: "What Sculpture Wants," lecture at Art History
Department, University of
Manchester, England.
December
8: "The Work of Art in the Age of Biocybernetic
Reproduction," Royal College of
Art, London.
December
28: "Blindness or Insight," respondent to panel on
Literature and Visual Culture
at the Modern Language Association, Washington D.C.

2001
(Past Lectures)
January
20: "Museums and Other Monsters," lecture for Conference
on Museum Culture,
University of Chicago Alumni Association, Gleacher Center.
January
27: Moderator and Panelist for "Natural Histories: Landscape,
Antiquity, and
Memory," Smart Museum, University of Chicago.
February
20: "Art and Biocybernetics."
Lectures at California Institute of the Arts, Los
Angeles, California, and the Center for Art and Design, Pasadena.
March
1: "Founding Objects,"
a lecture on "found objects" for the annual meeting of
the
College Art Association of America, Chicago.
March
20: Lecture to Institute for Literary Theory, University of Lisbon,
Portugal.
March
24: Keynote Address, Annual Conference of Portuguese Teachers of
English, Faro,
Portugal.
April
20: University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Public lecture, and seminar for the Workshop
on Visual Culture.
April
27: University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
Lecture for conference on "The Domain
of Images."
May
4-5: Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.
"Showing Seeing: A Critique of Visual
Studies."
Lecture at conference on "Art History, Aesthetics, and
Visual Studies."
July
5: Tate Gallery, London. "Empire
and Objecthood." Keynote
address at conference
on "Art and the
British Empire."
August
7-28: Australia: lectures at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,
and the
Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney; Master Classes
and 3 public
lectures at the University of South Australia, Adelaide on "What
Pictures Want."
September
7-8: "Why Rhetoric Is Not Enough," Indiana University,
Department of
Communication and Culture. Keynote
address for conference on "Visual
Rhetorics."
September
19: Colorado College. Public
lecture on Art and Biocybernetics
October
8: University of Washington, Seattle.
Lecture to the Humanities Institute.
October
13: Berlin, Free University.
"Addressing Media," public lecture.
October
18-19: Ohio State University, Columbus: Kane Lectures in English
Literature."
Romanticism and the
Life of Things," and "The Work of Art in the Age of
Biocybernetic Reproduction."
November
1: Chicago Humanities Festival.
Public Lecture: "Words, Pictures, and the
Spaces Between."

Spring
2002 (Past Lectures)
April
9: American Academy, Berlin. Lecture:
"Biocybernetics"
May
14: Kristiansand University, Kristiansand, Norway.
"Words, Pictures, and the
Space Between,"
Inaugural Lecture for Program in Visual Studies.
May
28: W. E. B. Dubois Lecture, Humboldt University, Berlin.
"Living Color: The
Animation of
Stereotypes in Spike Lee's Bamboozled."
May
29: Humboldt University, Berlin.
Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar.
"Empire and
Objecthood"
July
14: "Cloning Terror," lecture at the Iconoclash Symposium,
Zentrum fur Kunst
und Medientechnologie,
Karlsruhe, Germany.
July
18: "Art and Biocybernetics," lecture at the Zentrum fur
Kunst und
Medientechnologie,
Karlsruhe, Germany.
July
24: "Living Color: The Animation of Racial Stereotypes in Spike
Leeís Bamboozled."
Dartmouth
College, Master of Liberal Arts Symposium in Cultural Studies.

Fall 2002 (Past Lectures)
September
14: Plenary Address, "Re-Thinking the Visual," University
of Colorado, Boulder.
Contact: Erika Doss: erika.doss@colorado.edu
September 26-7:
"Country Matters": Inaugural Lecture for Cultural Studies program,
"Critical
Topographies," Trent University,
Peterborough, Ontario. Contact:
Jonathan Bordo: petitbordeaux@sympatico.ca
October
5: Keynote Address, Landscape and Vision.
Symposium at the University of
Illinois-Champaign-Urbanaís Department of Landscape Architecture.
Contact:
Diane Harris: harris3@uiuc.edu
October
16: Lecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
"Biocybernetics."
Contact: Ellen Esrock:
esroce@rpi.edu
October
17: Humanities Institute Lecture, Dartmouth College.
"The Work of Art in the Age
of Biocybernetic Reproduction."
Contact: Jonathan
V. Crewe:
Jonathan.V.Crewe@Dartmouth.EDU
October
18: Dartmouth College: "Abstraction
and Intimacy," paper for symposium on
"Writing about Art."
Contact: James
A. W. Heffernan:
James.A.W.Heffernan@Dartmouth.EDU
November 1: Plenary Address, Modernist Studies Association
Annual Meeting, University of
Wisconsin, Madison. Contact:
ssfriedm@facstaff.wisc.edu
November
4-8: Alfonso Reyes Lectures, Mexico City.
Co-sponsored by Art Department
of
the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Technologico Monterrey.
Contacts:
Karen
Cordero: karen.cordero@uia.mx
Laura
Gonzalez: lmgonzal@campus.ccm.itesm.mx
November 13-14: Deanís Distinguished Lecturer, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Contact:
Gail Hershatter: gbhers@cats.ucsc.edu
December
12 [postponed]: Felix Burda Memorial Lecture, The University of
Munich, Burda
Academy and the
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
On the idea of
a "pictorial turn (Tentative)
Contact: Heike Maenz: maenzhe@burda.com
December
16: "Picturing Desire," Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts, Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
Contact: Marina
Grzinic: margrz@arc-sazu.si
December
17: Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia. Contact
: Nada Beros:
nada.beros@msu.hr
December
27-30: Modern Language Association Meeting, New York City

Spring
2003 (Past Lectures)
February
19-22: Annual Meeting of College Art Association, New York
City. Forum on "Art
History as/versus Visual Studies" with Susan Buck-Morss, Martin
Kemp, James
Elkins, Nicholas Mirzoeff, and Janet Hess.
March
7-8: Clark Institute of Fine Art, Williamstown, Mass.
Conference on Journals and
the Arts.
March
10: London School of Economics and Royal Academy, London.
Topic to be
announced.
April
4: Keynote Speaker, 2003 Conference of Texas Association of School
of Arts (TASA)
"Showing Seeing." Contact: Susan Witta-Kemph: swittake@accdvm.accd.edu
April 18: University of California, Irvine. "Double J, The J
Turn, and the Serpent in the
Wilderness." For "J": A Conference in Honor of J. Hillis Miller. Contact:
Barbara
Cohen,
blcohen@uci.edu.
May 9-10: Mt. Holyoke. "Addressing Media." Faculty
Seminar in Visual Culture on Spike
Leeís Bamboozled. Contact: Debbora Battaglia: dbattagl@mtholyoke.edu
June 10-July 10: China: lectures in Beijing, Shanghai, Guilin, and
Hong Kong. Postponed
until spring 2004.
Contact: Professor Wang Ning of Tsinhua University,
wangning@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Fall 2003 (Past Lectures)
September 13-14: University of Nottingham. Conference on "Image &
Critique." Contact:
Sunil Manghani,
Sunil.Manghani@nottingham.ac.uk.
October 3: University of Southern California, Los Angeles. English
Department lecture:
"Addressing Media."
Contact: Joseph Boone,
josephbo@usc.edu
October 9: Northwestern University, Block Gallery Auditorium. Art
History Lecture. Contact:
Carrie Lambert,
c-lambert@northwestern.edu
October 24-5: University of
Texas. Annual meeting of Science and Literature Society.
Panel on the Aesthetics
of Vitalism.
October 30: University of
Copenhagen. "Empire and Objecthood," for conference on
"Materiality: The Verbal
and the Visual in Historical Perspective." Contact:
Pil Dahlerup,
pil@hum.ku.dk (cancelled)
November 8-9: Berlin: Haus
der Kulturen der Welt. "Totemism, Fetishism, Idolatry,"
lecture for conference on
"Migrating Images." Contact: Petra Stegmann,
Stegmann@hkw.de.
November 21-2: New York University, Deutsches Haus. "Imaging Science,"
Keynote
address to Conference on
"Images of Science and the Scientist in Visual Media."
Contact: Erin Evers:
ece201@nyu.edu or Bernd Huppauf:
bernd.huppauf@nyu.edu
December 5: Lexington, Kentucky, University of Kentucky Fine Arts
Professions Lecture:
"Addressing Media."
Contact: Anna Brzyski:
anna.brzyski@uky.edu

Spring 2004 (Past Lectures)
January 8-11: Hawaiian International Conference on the Arts and
Humanities, Keynote
Address. Contact: Darren
Garvey:
darren_garvey@hotmail.com
February 15-16: Madrid, Spain. Conference on "Visual Studies in the
21st Century."
Contact: Jose Luis Brea,
jlbrea@w3art.es
March 11: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ. "Holy Landscape: Israel,
Palestine, and
the American Wilderness."
Contact: Jan Krulick-Belin:
jan.krulick@phxart.org
April 6:
Stoddard Lecture in Art History, University of California, Berkeley.
Contact:
Whitney Davis:
wmdavis@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
April 9-10: University of California, Berkeley. "Sounding the Idols,"
conference convened
by Martin Jay.
martjay@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
June
10-14: Beijing, Tsinhua University. Conference on Critical Inquiry
in the 21st
Century. Contact: Wang
Ning:
wangning@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
July (tentative): Israel, University of Haifa. "Icons, Idols,
Ideologies: Visual Cultures in
the U.S. and Israel."
Contact: Michele Rosenthal:
rosen@research.haifa.ac.il

Fall 2004 (Past Lectures)
September 15th: Archeworks, 625 N. Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610. On
the ethics
of imaging. Contact:
mbaltman@archeworks.org
October 23rd: Antwerp, Belgium: University of Antwerp and the
Antwerp Museum of
Contemporary Art. Keynote
Address to Conference on 'Images of Language/The
Language of Images'
Contact: Tom Paulus:
tom.paulus@muhka.be
November 3rd: Berlin: Lecture at the Zentrum f¸r Literaturforschung.
Contact: Sabine
Flach:
flach@zfl.gwz-berlin.de
November
5th: Chicago: "Literature, Theory, and Common Sense," a symposium at
the University of
Chicago. Contact: Thomas Pavel:
jtpavel@cs.com
November 13th: Chicago: Annual Meeting of the National Communication
Association,
Spotlight Presentation on
"The 'Face' and 'Place' of Media." Contact: Barbara
Warnick:
barbwarn@u.washington.edu
November 25th: Goldsmiths College, University of London. "Addressing
Media."
Contact: John Hutnyk:
John.Hutnyk@gold.ac.uk
November
26th: London: Tate Modern Series on Ethics and Aesthetics. Joint
appearance
with Griselda Pollock.
Contact: Dominic Willsdon:
Dominic.Willsdon@tate.org.uk
December 2: Munich: Ludwig-Maximilien University and The Burda Academy of
the Third
Millenium. Lecture in the
series on the "Cloning Terror: The War of Images from
9/11 to the Abu Ghraib
Photographs." Contact: Heike Maenz:
maenz@burda.com
Follow the link to view
the
streaming video.
December 13-15: Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine. Memorial
Symposium for
Edward Said. Contact:
Ahmad Harb, Dean of Arts:
ahmusah@yahoo.com
December 15: "Secular Divination: Edward Said's Humanism," at the Van
Leer Institute,
Hebrew University,
Jerusalem. Contact: Shulamit Laron:
ShulamitL@vanleer.org.il

Spring 2005 (Past Lectures)
January 22-31, 2005: [Postponed]
Bombay: Lectures at the Mohile Parikh Center,
the National Center for the
Performing
Arts. New Delhi, The Sanskriti Foundation for the Arts. Contac:
Dr. Prashant
Parikh: pjparikh@aol.com
February 7, 2005: "Image Science," the Thyssen Lecture at Humboldt
University, Berlin.
Contact:
Stefanie Schmidt:
stefanie.schmidt@kaleidoskopien.de
February 15, 2005: "The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable: Word and
Image in a Time
of Terror." Einstein
Forum, Potsdam. Contact: Ruediger Zill:
ruediger.zill@einsteinforum.de
February 23, 2005: "Cloning Terror: The War of Images." Max Planck
Institute, Berlin.
Contact: Hans Jˆrg Rheinberger:
rheinbg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
April 8, 2005: University of Toronto, Comparative Literature
Conference, "Eyedeologies."
Contact: Adriana
complitcolloq2005@yahoo.ca
April 9, 2005: Toronto "Images Festival." Contact: Janine
Marchessault:
jmarches@yorku.ca
April 15, 2005: University of Cork, Ireland. Conference on "Visual
Literacy." Contact:
James Elkins:
jelkins@artic.edu
April 21-23, 2005: Vienna: Internationales Forschungszentrum fur
Kulturwissenschaften
(IFK). Symposium on "What Do
Pictures Want?" Contacts: Daniela Losenicky:
losenicky@ifk.ac.at and Hans Belting:
hbelting@hfg-karlsruhe.de
April 25, 2005: University of Szeged, Hungary. "The Unspeakable and
the Unimaginable:
Word and Image in a Time
of Terror," keynote address to the Szeged Conference
on "Word and Image."
Contact: Gyorgy Endre Szoni,
geszonyi@lit.u-szeged.hu
April 28, 2005: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. "Stereotype,
Caricature, and Clone," lecture
for conference on "Images
of the Arab," convened by the Working Group on
Modernity and Islam.
Contact: Shereen Saad Abou El Naga:
shereens@tedata.net.eg
May 4-9, 2005: National University of Art, Bucharest, Rumania.
Contact: Anca Oroveanu:
ancaoro@nec.ro
June 9, 2005: University of Oslo, Norway. "Media Aesthetics."
Contact: Arild Fetveit:
fetveit@hum.ku.dk
June 15-19, 2005: Istanbul Bilgi University. Symposium on "Visual
Studies." Contact:
Feride CiÁekolu:
feridec@superonline.com

Fall 2005 (Past Lectures)
September 1-3: Keynote Address, Conference on "Social Realism in
Art," Lieven Gevaert
Research Centre for
Photography and Visual Studies, Katholieke Universiteit,
Leuven, Belgium. Contact:
Hilde Van Gelder:
Hilde.VanGelder@arts.kuleuven.ac.be
September 15:
"The Line that Crosses America," symposium on
"The Moving Drawing of
Jheon
Soocheon." Washington, D.C.-Pittsburgh, PA. Contact: Shim
Chung:
ysc7993@nyu.edu
September 16:
"Cloning Terror," at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, New York.
Contact:
Ellen Esrock: esroce@rpi.edu
September 19: Beckwith Lecture, Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Contact:
Joanna Soltan:
jsoltan@smfa.edu
September 20: Baldwin-Dahl Lecture, Yale University, Comparative
Literature Department.
Contact: Alexandra
Parfitt:
Alexandra.parfitt@yale.edu
October 12-14: Conference on "Image and Imagination," New York
University, Center for
the Study of European
Culture. Contact: Bernd Huppauf:
bernd.huppauf@nyu.edu
October 15:
"Showing Seeing": Keynote Address, International Visual
Culture Conference.
University of Illinois,
Urbana Champaign. Contact: Paul Duncum: pduncum@uiuc.edu
October 26: Munro Lecture, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
Canada. Contact: Colette
Colligan:
ccolliga@sfu.ca
October 27: Keynote Address, Victorian Studies Association Annual
Meeting, Simon Fraser
University.
November 3-4: "Secular Divination: Saidís Humanism," paper for
Symposium on Edward
Saidís Orientalism,
University of Chicago. Contact: Elizabeth Chandler:
echandle@uchicago.edu
November 10-13: Society for Science, Art, and Literature, session on
"Systems Thinking:
Immunity and
Nervousness."
December 2-3: "Globalization, Violence, and Visual Culture," New
York University Humanities
Council Workshop.
Contact: Nicholas Mirzoeff:
nm45@verizon.net
December 12-14: University of Copenhagen, Seminar on "Intermediality."
Contact: Pil
Dahlerup:
pil@hum.ku.dk
December 30: MLA Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. Panel on "War in
the Arts and Media."
Contact: Marianna
Torgovnick: tor@nc.rr.com

Spring 2006
(Past Lectures)
Feb. 1-2: University of Washington: "Postcolonial Visuality." Contact: Zahid
Chaudhary:
zahidc@u.washington.edu
Feb. 10-12: Florida State University. Lecture to Art History
Department. Contact: Adam
Jolles:
ajolles@mailer.fsu.edu
Feb. 17: University of South Florida: Lecture to Art History
Department. Contact: Marchi,
Riccardo:
rmarchi@arts.usf.edu
Feb. 25: University of Rome, conference on "Meyer Schapiro and the
Methods of Art History."
"Meyer Schapiro's 'Theme of State' Today: Sacred Images and the War
on Terror."
Contact: Mariagiuseppina di Monte:
gdimonte@arti.beniculturali.it
March 29-30: University of Memphis: Marcus Orr Center for the
Humanities. Contact:
Barbara Ching:
baching@memphis.edu
April 6-8:
"Country Matters: Re-Thinking Regionalism,"
Keynote Address to 38th Annual
College English Association Conference, San Antonio, TX.
April 13: SUNY Buffalo, Comparative Literature Lecture Series.
"Cloning Terror: The War of
Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib."
April 24: Colgate University Program in Peace and Conflict Studies.
"State of the Union, or
Jesus Comes to Abu Ghraib." Contact: Daniel Monk:
dmonk@mail.colgate.edu
April 29: Conference on "The Fate of Disciplines" at the Franke
Institute, University of
Chicago. "Art, Disciplines, and Indexicality: On Helen Mirra." For
info, contact:
franke-humanities@uchicago.edu

Summer 2006
June 30 - July 1, Frankfurt, Germany. Institut fur Kunstkritik at
the Hochschule fur bildende
KunsteSymposium on "Images, Subjects, and Politics in the
Spectacular Phase of
Capitalism,"
with T. J. Clark and Paolo Virno. Contact: Isabelle Graw:
grawisab@aol.com
August 10-15: Tsinhua University, Beijing. "World Pictures and
Regional Imaginaries,"
keynote
address for conference on Cultures of Globalization. Contact: Wang
Ning:
wangning@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Fall 2006
September 28-30:
Universita
degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy. Conference on
"Visual
Culture in Italy. Perspectives for Comparative Literature."
Contact:
Michele
Cometa: mcometa@unipa.it or
Federica Mazzara:
fmazzara@unipa.it
October 17:
Northwestern University, Department of Communication
Studies. Lecture:
ìCloning Terror: The War of Images, 9-11
to Abu Ghraib.î Contact: Robert Hariman
robert.hariman@comcast.net
October
19: Lecture on What Do Pictures Want? UCLA: Fowler
Museum of Cultural
History.
Contact: Polly Roberts:
proberts@arts.ucla.edu
October 27-8: Basel, Switzerland. "Movens Bild: Between Evidence and
Emotion,"
Kunsthistorisches Seminar, University of Basel. Contact: Gottfried
Boehm:
Gottfried.boem@unibas.ch
November
11: Chicago Humanities Festival: Panel discussion with
Kanan Makiya and
filmmaker Errol Morris on the Abu
Ghraib torture scandal. Contact: Ian Burkow:
ian@chfestival.org
November 17 and December 1: Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, The
Baker-Nord Seminar. Contact: Timothy Beal:
timothy.beal@case.edu

Spring 2007
September 28-30: Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
January 25: Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York: “On the Happiness of
Bad Objects.” Contact: Sarina Basta, Curator:
sbasta@sculpturecenter.org January 26: New York Humanities Institute, Deutsches Haus, NYU, noon-2 PM:
“Cloning Terror:The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib”. Contact:
Laurence Weschler: weschlers@gmail.com February 1: Art Center of Pasadena: “Architecture as Sculpture as Drawing”.
Contact: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe: jgilbertro@aol.com
February 4: Los Angeles County Museum. “Foucault’s Magritte, and Other Metapictures.”Contact: Stephanie Barron: sbarron@lacma.org
February 14-17: College Art Association, New York City. Panels on “Disability and
Visual Culture”(contact: Nicholas Mirzoeff: nmirzoeff@gmail.com)
and “Visual Culture and the War on Terror” (contact: Zainab Bahrani:
zb2101@columbia.edu)
February 22: Kendall College of Arts and Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Contact:
Sarah Joseph:Sarah_Joseph@ferris.edu
March 1-4: Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. “Clonophobia and the
Biopictorial Turn,” for Conference on “The Times of Cloning: Historical
and Cultural Aspects of a Biotechnological Research Field.”
Contacts: Christina Brandt: brandt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de;
Giuseppe Testa: giusseppe.testa@ifom-ieo-campus.it.
April 19-21: Weimar, Germany. “Architecture as Sculpture as Drawing,” Bauhaus
University Annual Conference on Architecture. Contact: Jorg Gleiter:
joerg.gleiter@archit.uni-weimar.de.
April 27: Drury University, Springfield, MO. Colloquium with Don Pease: “9-11 Five
Years Later.”Contact: Randall Fuller: rfuller@drury.edu
April 28: Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, Conference: “The Archive of Images
and the Image of the Archive,” for conference: “What is Research? Obsession, Archive
and Encounter in the Visual Arts.” Contacts: Michael Ann Holly: mholly@clark.edu
and Mark Ledbury mledbury@clark.edu
May 17-25: lectures TBA in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Birzeit University in Ramallah.
May 26: Berlin: “Dinosaurs, Landscapes, and Terror: A Few American Stories,” for
conference on “Narratives about American Art,” conference co-sponsored by the Freie
Universiteit, American Academy, and the Hamburger Bahnhof. Contact: Winfried Fluck:
winfriedfluck@hotmail.com.
June 20: Cambridge, England; Cambridge University Center for Research in the Arts,
Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). Workshop on media. Contact: Ben
Etherington: bke20@hermes.cam.ac.uk.
July 20-22: University of Nottingham, England. “Country Matters,” keynote address for
“Literary Geographies: A Multidisciplinary Conference,” Schools of Geography and
English Studies. Contact: Stephen Daniels: stephen.daniels@nottingham.ac.uk.

Summer 2007
June 27: Documenta 12, Kassel Germany: “Ecce Homo Sacer:
Bare Life, Modernity, and
the Image”.
Lecture Link: DOCUMENTA 12

Fall 2007
September 13: Nebraska Wesleyan University. “The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu
Ghraib”
September 17: New York University, Kevorkian School of Middle Eastern Studies.
“The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib.”
September 18-25: Havana, Cuba. Three Lectures on Art and Political Activism at
the Catedra Arte de Conducta: “Notes on Art, Action, and Activism”; “From
Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib: The Norm and the Exception”; “Imagining Others:
From Caliban to the Taliban”
October 12-13: Southern Methodist University, Dallas. “The Abu Ghraib Archive.”
Keynote Address to conference on “Collectiving and Collectivity.”
October 20-29: four lectures in Sweden. Oct. 22: Uppsala University, “Cloning
Terror”; Oct. 23-4: Linköping University, “Image Science,” and “Image Politics”;
October 25: Våxjo University: Keynote Address to conference, “Imagining Media": “Intermediality and Intermodality: Architecture, Sculpture, and the Digital
Image.”
November 2: panelist at Philosopher’s Symposium on Climate Change, Franke
Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago.
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