Program

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

 

7:00 WELCOME DINNER

 

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

 

9:00-12:00 SEMINAR I: Humanism’s Problems in the Nineteenth Century

  • Rachael Z. DeLue, Picturing the Superfluous Human
  • Jessica Horton, Other Than Humanism
  • Michael Leja, The Inhumanity of the Mass Subject

12:00-2:00 LUNCH and BREAK

 

2:00-5:30 SEMINAR II: Anti/Humanist Modernisms

  • Jacob Wamberg, From Entropy to Abstraction: On Posthuman Tendencies  in Modernist and Avant-Garde Art
  • Jason Weems, Figuring Forgotten Men
  • Larne Abse Gogarty, “Monsters of Mutilation, Death and Decay”: Humanism and the Figure in Post-War Chicago
  • Christopher Nealon, Language, Poetry, Rhetoric

Thursday, September 21, 2017

 

9:00-12:00 SEMINAR III: The Antihumanist Turn?

  • Jean-Philippe Antoine, George Kubler and the Supposed Antihumanism of the 1960s
  • Rob Slifkin, On Dennis Oppenheim’s Marionette Theater
  • Laura Bieger, Reading Rocks: Earth Art, Deep Time and Implied Beholders

12:00-4:00 LUNCH and BREAK (free time to enjoy Giverny museums and gardens)

 

4:00-7:30 SEMINAR IV: Abiding/Lingering Humanisms

  • Jennifer A. González, Can Speech Still “Figure” the “Human” in Democracy?
  • Hanne Loreck, From the Mirror Stage to Diffraction: Models of (Female and Queer) Subjectivity in the Visual Arts of the Last Decades
  • Joshua Shannon, Portraiture’s Credibility Problem
  • Cherise Smith, Carrie Mae Weems: A Humanist Postconceptualism?

Friday, September 22, 2017

 

9:30-11:30 FINAL DISCUSSION/ROUNDTABLE

 

11:30-1:00 FAREWELL LUNCHEON