Roundtable: "Neither Fact Nor Fiction: Revisiting the Objects of Primitivism." Suggested Reading.
Room: 7101 Helen C. White. Organizer: Amy Johnson.
Lecture: “Josephine Baker: Skins, Tattoos, and the Making of Modern Surfaces" Professor Anne Cheng.
What is "bare skin" at the intersection of bodies and buildings? This talk explores through the iconographic figure of Josephine Baker how readings of racial skin shape and are shaped by modernist theorization of surface in the plastic arts and its meanings. Contrary to the universally agreed understanding that Baker exemplifies a long tradition of colonial representations, this paper argues that Baker instead marks a significant break in the visual culture surrounding the black female body. This departure demands a re-reading of the encounter between Modernism and Primitivism and holds expansive implications for the philosophic and political construction of the "modern object" and its roles in the ethics of the gaze and the politics of democratic recognition.
Room: 7191 Helen C. White. Organizer: Amy Johnson.
Workshop: Open -- Contact Tim Glenn if you are a member of the CLC and would like to workshop a dissertation chapter on this day.
Room 7101. Organizer: Tim Glenn.
Lecture: "Phenomenality & Dissatisfaction," Professor Rei Terada, co-sponsor with Middle Modernity.
Room: 6191 Helen C White.
Workshop: "Thinking Small: Ian McEwan on fiction and the Politics of Modesty," Thom Dancer.
Room 7101. Organizers: Tim Glenn
Lecture: “"The Bananas of Modernity," Professor Jennifer Wicke
Room: 7101 HCW. Organizer: Modernisms/Modernity.
Workshop: "TBD: Norman Mailer," Brian Williams
Room 7101. Organizer: Tim Glenn.
Workshop: "T.S. Eliot: The Poetics and Politics of Conversion," Mitch Nakaue.
Room 7101. Organizer: Tim Glenn.
Roundtable with graduate students: “The Materiality of Language”
Professor Timothy Bewes. Room TBA. Moderator: Thom Dancer.
Lecture: “TBD," Professor Timothy Bewes.
Room: TBA. Organizer: Thom Dancer.
Workshop: "TBD," John Bradley.
Room: 7101 Helen C White. Organizer: Tim Glenn.