2010 World Picture Conference

Brian Price (Chair)

Eugenie Brinkema

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Forcing the Issue: Rape/Pornography/Representation”

Kristopher L. Cannon

Georgia State University

“From Picture to Image through Si(gh)tes Un-seen: An Oblique Optic to Illuminate Queer Fetal Photographs”

Elena Gorfinkel

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

“Expurgated Bodies: Naomi Uman’s Removed and the Work of Defacement

Alessandra Raengo (Chair)

Jennifer Johung

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

“Architectural Asymptote: Between Representation and Performance”

Scott Krzych

Oklahoma State University

“Chalk Talk: Glen Beck’s Hysterical Discourse”

Meghan Sutherland

Oklahoma State University

“Representation After Representation”

Elena Gorfinkel (Chair)

Abe Geil

Duke University

“Everything Speaks”

Niels Niessen

University of Minnesota

“Cinematic Immanence: Carlos Reygadas’s Stellet Licht and Spinoza’s Third Kind of Knowledge”

Brian Price

Oklahoma State University

“Dramatic Thought”

Bhaskar Sarkar (Chair)

Bishnupriya Ghosh

University of California, Santa Barbara

“Vital Remains: The Spectral Modern in Contemporary European Cinema”

Bhaskar Sarkar

University of California, Santa Barbara

“Plastic Archives:  Documenting the Cinema-City”   

Joshua Neves

University of California, Santa Barbara

“Representation as Pre-presentation: Modeling the Future in Olympic-era Beijing”

Rey Chow

Duke University

“When Reflexivity Becomes Porn: Mutations of a Modernist Theoretical Practice”

René Thoreau Bruckner (Chair)

Drew Ayers

Georgia State University

“After the Self: Kubrick as Vernacular Post- Humanist”

Brian Wall

Binghamton University

“Playing Dead: Mimesis and Mana in Adorno”

Agustin Zarzosa

SUNY Purchase

“Torchwood and the Posthuman Melodrama”

Meghan Sutherland (Chair)

Soumitra Ghosh

Oklahoma State University

“Mythos Interruptus: The Question of Restaging and National History in Rang De Basanti”

Steven Marsh

University of Illinois at Chicago

“True/False: Ethnography and Representation in Three 1960s Spanish Documentaries”

Pooja Rangan

Brown University

“Authenticating Precarious Life: Disaster Autoethnography and the Gamble of Immanent Critique”

Scott Krzych (Chair)

René Thoreau Bruckner

Oklahoma State University

“Re-presence: Spirals of Time”

Charles P. Linscott

Ohio University

“Photography as Écriture: Image and Sound in La Jetée and (nostalgia)”

Jeremy Powell

Brown University

“Representation’s Redemptions: Deleuze, Bersani, Cinema”

Chelsey Crawford (Chair)

Carol Mason

Oklahoma State University

“What’s this Cow Doing in My Queer Theory?”

Sam Perry

Georgia State University

“’Strange Fruit’ as Ekphrastic Poetry: Discursive and Visual Intersections”

Alessandra Raengo

Georgia State University

“Scenes of Exchange: Maggie’s Blackness and Other Insects”

Soumitra Ghosh (Chair)

Gregory Brown

Oklahoma State University

“The Movement Metaphor : Cinematic Movement and Its Figurative Potential”

Chelsey Crawford

Oklahoma State University

“Emptying the Viewer”

Sarah Osment

Brown University

“Ideologies of the Anaesthetic: Williams, Agee, Adorno”

Matt Tierney

Brown University

“A Dumb Blankness Full of Meaning”

Abe Geil (Chair)

Adam Cottrel

Oklahoma State University

“The Moment of Montage”

Kalling Heck

Oklahoma State University

“Consensus, Parataxis, Eisenstein”

Daniel Norford

Oklahoma State University

“Shot/Reverse-Shot as Nietzschean Event”

Peter Hallward

Kingston University

“Representation, Participation, and Power; A Neo-Jacobin Persepective”