Radical Aesthetics and Politics Conference, Hunter College

From: Portia Seddon <[email protected]>

Dear H-FIlm members,

Several panels in the upcoming Radical Aesthetics and Politics
Conference include papers related to film studies and may be of
interest to some on the list.  Please see starred papers below.

The conference will be held on December 9th, at Roosevelt House,
Hunter College CUNY, 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10065.
Visit http://chreculture.blogspot.com to view the full program and
abstracts.

The event is free and open to the public.  Email
[email protected] to register.
--
Portia Seddon
Editor
Critical Studies in Expressive Culture
www.chreculture.blogspot.com
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Radical Aesthetics and Politics Conference

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Panel 1: Collectivist Aesthetics
 Discussant: Mary N. Taylor, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Presenters:
Corina L. Apostol, Rutgers University, On Chto Delat/What is to be
done? and the Politicization of Art Practice
**Salvatore Giusto, University of Toronto, La Fabbrica dei Sogni:
Italian Cinematography, Collective Memory, and National Identity**
Douglas S. Ishii, University of Maryland, College Park, this baggage
of essentialist expectation: Race, Music, and the Kantian Aesthetic
Miki Kaneda, University of California, Berkeley, The Unexpected
Collectives: Experimental Assemblages and the Sogetsu Art Center


10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Panel 2: Landscape and Memorialization
Discussant: Neni Panourgiá, Columbia University

 Presenters:
**Christopher Fraga, New York University, Landscapes of Necropower**
Karen Frostig, Lesley University and Brandeis University, Fascism and
Graffiti: Opposing Systems
Pwyll ap Stifin, University College London, Material Culture Group,
The Resonating Voice: Sound and Community at Ground Zero
Abe Walker, CUNY Graduate Center, Remembering Through Forgetting: Stan
Douglas's Abbott and Cordova and the Social Functions of
Art-as-Monument


1:00 – 2:30 PM Panel 3: (Re)productive Technologies
Discussant: Erin Siodmak, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Presenters:
**Keegan Goodman, Stony Brook University, Creatures Don’t Have to
Work: Censorship, Imagination and the Films of Jack Smith**
Helen Panagiotopoulos, Hunter College, CUNY, Angels, Donors and
Gifting: How Children's Books Frame Third-Party Assisted Reproduction
Russet Lederman, School of Visual Arts, Fanta, Sprite and G.I. Joe:
Depictions of Postwar American Military in Japanese Photography
Jack Harrison, Georgetown University, Audience Participation, the
Remix, Youtube.com, and the Control Society


1:00 – 2:30 PM Panel 4: Embodied Narratives
Discussant: Klara Seddon, Institute of Cultural Research, NY

Presenters:
**Elizabeth Adan, California Polytechnic State University, Double
Vision: Reconstituting Race, Vision, and Representation in Paul
Pfeiffer’s Long Count Series**
Park McArthur, Whitney Independent Study Program, A Soft Limp Key
**Luke White, Middlesex University, Towards a Radical Aesthetics of
Kung-fu Cinema: Authenticity and the Pedagogy of Performing Bodies in
Lau Kar-leung’s Shaolin Cycle**
Cheryl Thompson, McGill University, From Mammy to Oprah: An Historical
Analysis of the “Fat” Black Female Body as Cultural Product