Friday, April 24th, 2015:
09:00am-7:00pm Silence! McGill Art History and Communication Studies Emerging Scholars Conference
Room 312, New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street
Artist Projects:
Richard Wheeler, UCLA, The Sounds of Silencers
Matthieu Saladin, University Paris 8 – Vincennes, Saint-Denis, Silent Track
Jane Birkin, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Lecture-Performance: Writing the Image: Reading Allan Sekula
Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00 am Coffee and bagels
Welcome and opening remarks
9:00-10:00 am Shhh! Silence in the Classroom, Whispers in the Hall: Silence and Pedagogy
Moderator: Dr. Becky Lentz, McGill University
Adam Lauder, University of Toronto, “Non-verbal Teaching as Conceptual Pedagogy and Object of Critique”
Lindsey Albracht, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Making Space(s) for Sound: Educational Soundscapes and the Active Learner”
Kristen Millar, McGill University, “Barriers of Whiteness: Discourses of Exclusion within Canadian Art History”
10:00-10:15 am Questions
10:15-10:25 am Coffee Break
10:25-11:25 am A Quiet Space: Silence and the Built Environment
Moderator: Dr. Will Straw, McGill University
Amanda Dalla Villa Adams, Virginia Commonwealth University,””In the Middle of Nowhere:” Robert Irwin’s Experiments with the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 1968-1970″
S. Alana Wolf Johnson, University of Rochester, “Capture/Create: Sonic Potentialities in Zones of Open Narrative”
Katrin Schamun, University of Arts Berlin/Harvard University, “How Does Architecture Sound?”
11:25-11:40 am Questions
11:40 am-1:00 pm Lunch at Thompson House, 3650 McTavish
1:00-2:00 pm The Sound of Silence: Silence as Resistance in Political Speech and Popular Culture
Moderator: Dr. Darin Barney, McGill University
David Aitken, McGill University, “Silence as Reply”: Albert Camus on Algeria”
Patrick Brodie, Columbia University, “Buster Keaton and Silent Resistance in Seven Chances”
Josephine Hoegaerts, UPenn/KULeuven,”Graves et silencieux, leur voix se faisait cependant entendre: Charismatic silence and political influence in nineteenth century parliamentary politics”
2:00-2:15 pm Questions
2:15-3:15 pm The Object of Silence: Listening to Things and Images
Moderator: Dr. Chriscinda Henry, McGill University
Jeroen Deraeve, Université de Montréal, “The Dissolution of Censorship in Iran: How Digital Media and Film Festivals Help Filmmakers To Break Through Government Imposed Silence”
Ying Sze Pek, Princeton University, “Mute: Hito Steyerl’s “Documentary Abstraction” and the Limits of Speech”
Karolina Zgraja, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, “The Silence of Venetian Renaissance Altarpieces: Considerations on Giovanni Bellini’s Unperceivable Music with Regard to its Devotional and Theoretical Implications”
3:15-3:30 pm Questions
3:30-3:45 pm Coffee Break
3:45-5:05 pm Silently Speaking: Performative Silence and Rhetoric
Moderator: Dr. Milena Tomic, McGill University
Kyle Winkler, University of Pittsburgh, “The Silent Dissolution of Rhetoric in Sophokles’ Philoktetes”
Avra Spector, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Tracing Foucault’s use of Silence: Toward a Transgressive Silence”
Alessandro Simari, Keble College, University of Oxford, “The Resumption Cue: Scripting Silence in Early Modern Drama”
Sakina Jangbar, The University of Texas at Austin, “Can Silent Utterances be Performative?”
5:05-5:20 pm Questions
5:20-5:30 pm Coffee Break
5:30-6:30 pm Keynote Lecture by Dr. Jonathan Katz, Associate Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, “Hearing Silence: The Strident Noise of Negation”
6:30-6:45 pm Questions
7:00-10:00 pm Reception
Collateral Events at articule
Friday, April 24th, 2015:
5:30-07:00 pm Conversation with artist Dylan Miner, articule, 262 Fairmount W.
7:00-9:00 pm Vernissage for the exhibition Silence of Sovereignty, articule, 262 Fairmount W.
Silence! 