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Upcoming Lectures:


Winter/Spring 2008
 

 

Past Lectures:


2000
2001
Spring 2002

Fall 2002
Spring 2003
Fall 2003
Spring 2004
Fall 2004
Spring 2005
Fall 2005
Spring 2006
Summer 2006
Fall 2006
Spring 2007
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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 CiÁekolu: 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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