Thursday, June 5th 2014
11:00
Sria Chatterjee - Introduction to the symposium
Postglobal Bodies: Some Questions on the Making of Art History in the Anthropocene
Finbarr Barry Flood
The Global Before Globalization? History through a Door
(Finbarr Barry Flood is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities, IFA & Dept. of Art History, NYU)
coffee break
12:30
William Beinart
Joy and George Adamson's Lion Photographs: Visual Media and Environmental Consciousness
(William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at Oxford University)
13:15 lunch break
15:00
Zahid R. Chaudhary
Mediating History: The Past as Play in Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing
(Zahid R. Chaudhary is Associate Professor, Department of English at Princeton University)
Arindam Dutta
Counter-Genesis: Agrarian Capital and Political Theology in the Bengal Frontier
(Arindam Dutta is Associate Professor of Architectural History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Friday, June 6th 2014
10:00
Eva-Maria Troelenberg – Introduction
Nei Sassi di Matera, or: In Search of Topoanalysis after the Global
Iain Chambers
Migrations, Modernities, Musics and a Minor Mediterranean
(Iain Chambers is Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at Università degli Studi di Napoli '́L'Orientale')
coffee break
11:30
Esther da Costa Meyer
Architecture, Neoliberalism, and Anthropogenic Change
(Esther da Costa Meyer is Professor of Modern Architecture at Princeton University)
Yannis Hamilakis
Sensoriality, Materiality, Time: Subaltern Ontologies of Life
(Yannis Hamilakis is Professor of Archaeology at University of Southampton)
13:00 lunch break
14:30
final discussion