2012 World Picture Conference
Dates:2-3 Nov 2012
Locations:University of Sussex

Fri, 2 November 2012
9:00 - 11:00 (Plenary Panel)
Silverstone 309
Mark Betz
King’s College, London
“Recalling the Active Spectator”
Louis-Georges Schwartz
Ohio University
“”Direct”” “Action” or A Disquisition on the Cinematic Problem of Realization with Constant Reverence to La Commune (Paris 1871) (2000) and Et la Guerre est a peine Commencee (2001) ‘ Catherine Grant (University of Sussex), ‘Acting Out/In/Through Uncanny Fusion? Remixing “Aesthetic Moments”’
Karl Schoonover
University of Warwick
‘Seeing Historical Anachronism in Bertolucci’s Cadavers’
11:30 - 1:00 (Panel 1A)
Fulton 102
Seth Watter
Brown University
‘Cinema and the Hysterical Impulse: The Case of Loudun on Film’
Elinor Cleghorn
London Consortium
‘ Acting on Impulse: Possession and the Cinematic Body’
Niels Niessen
University of Minnesota
‘The Life Image: A Genealogy of New Realism’
11:30 - 1:00 (Panel 1B)
Fulton 103
Jessica Elaine Reilly
University of Western Ontario
‘Emancipating the Auratic Decay of the Image: A Psychogeographic Re-Distribution of the Sensible’
Sophie Seita
University of Cambridge
‘“To Dream’s More Violent Than To Act”: Kathy Acker’s Wilful Fakery of Experience’
Sam Cooper
University of Sussex
‘The Anxiety of Recuperation’
2:00 - 3:30 (Panel 2A)
Fulton 102
Michael Jones
University of Sussex
‘“Caught in Action”: Philip Roth and Betrayal Culture’
Martin Blumenthal-Barby
Rice University
‘The Secular Gaze: Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon (2009)’
Ger Zielinksi
Trent University
‘On New Queer Cinema, and the Thrilling Ambivalence of Being Irresponsible’
2:00 - 3:30 (Panel 2B)
Fulton 103
John David Rhodes
University of Sussex
‘Acting Like a Lesbian: Barbara Hammer and Film as Action’
Joe Luna
University of Sussex
‘The Action of the Poem’
Keston Sutherland
University of Sussex
‘Poetic Inaction’
2:00 - 3:00 (Panel 3A)
Fulton 102
Genevieve Yue
Macalester College
‘Yoko Ono, Plastic Woman’
Damon Young
UC Berkeley
‘Lights! Camera! Action! Women in View in Agnès Varda’s Résponse de Femmes (1975)’
Ryan Powell
King’s College, London
‘Blue Collar Intensity in the Seventies Gay Sex Film’
Leopold Lippert
University of Vienna/University of Graz
‘Riots, Inc., Or: the Pedagogy of National Fantasy’
2:00 - 3:00 (Panel 3B)
Ceren Mert
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
‘Possible Sites of Subtraction: Zooming in Urban Renewal Processes in Istanbul’
Byron Suber
Cornell University
‘STREBTOPIA: Laboratory of Action’
Arabella Stanger
Goldsmiths, University of London
‘Making Space Active: William Forsythe’s Choreographic Environments’
Domietta Torlasco
Northwestern University
‘Walking Through (After Janet Cardiff)’
2:00 - 3:00 (Keynote)
Fulton A Lecture Theatre
Felix Ensslin (Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart)
Wed, 14 December 2012
9:00 - 11:00 (Panel 4A)
Fulton 101
Felicity Colman
Manchester Metropolitan University
‘Actioning Feminicity’
Pawel Leskowicz, Tomasz Kitlinksi
University of Sussex, Maria Sklodowska-Curie University
‘Images of Action/Images in Action: The Performativity of LGBTQ Visibility Campaigns in Europe’
Pooja Rangan
The New School
‘Child Labour or Child’s Play? Humanitarian Action and Virtue’s Affective Economies’
Eva Giraud
University of Nottingham
‘“Samosas for Social Change”: Performing Animal Rights’
9:00 - 11:00 (Panel 4B)
Fulton 102
Amy Villarejo
Cornell University
‘Talking Heads: Philosophy on Television’
Mafalda Dâmaso
Goldsmiths, University of London
‘Forms of Political Address: On Rod Dickinson’s Who, What, Where, When, Why and How (2009) and Closed Circuit (2010)’
Scott Krzych
Colorado College
‘The Empty Image: Citizens United and Hysterical Conservative Media’
Brian Price
University of Toronto
‘Impossible Advice’
11:30 - 1:00 (Panel 5A)
Fulton 101
Jean Ma
Stanford University
‘A Revenge Theory of Cinematic Action’
Mauro Resmini
Brown University
‘Hallucina(c)ting (out): Psychotic Aesthetics and the New French Extremism’
Eugenie Brinkema
MIT
‘À l’intérieur (2007) and the Sensitive Action of Horror’
11:30 - 1:00 (Panel 5B)
Fulton 102
Katherine Groo
University of Aberdeen
‘Adventures in Boredom: Hunting, Dancing, and Waiting in Ethnographic Cinema’
Elena Gorfinkel
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
‘Weariness, Waiting: On Cinema’s Tired Bodies’
Michael Lawrence
University of Sussex
‘Muybridgean Motion and Materialist Film: Malcolm Le Grice’s Little Dog for Roger (1967) and Berlin Horse (1970)
2:00 - 3:30 (Panel 6A)
Fulton 101
Stephen Groening
George Mason University
‘Reclined Spectatorship’
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Northwestern University
‘Watching’s Inaction: On the Chair and the Spectator’
Glyn Davis
University of Edinburgh
‘An Aesthetics of Inaction: Stasis in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema’
2:00 - 3:30 (Panel 6B)
Fulton 102
Rosalind Galt
University of Sussex
‘Circulation and Crisis in Claire Denis’
Kay Dickinson
Goldsmiths College, University of London
‘Revolutionary Archive as Action’ Jonathan Mullins (New York University), ‘Action Index: Recovering the There at the Palasport Convention’
4:00 - 6:00 (Panel 7A)
Fulton 101
Mal Ahern
Yale University
‘“Some Objects Must Be Moved To Be Revealed”: Flicker Films, Dimensionality, and the Act of Projection in Structural Film and Minimalism’
Patricia Keller
Cornell University
‘What Photography Gives: Surface, Gesture, Action’
Rijuta Mehta
Brown University
‘Photo Finish: Bodily Remains and Statements of Horror’
4:00 - 6:00 (Panel 7A)
Fulton 101
Mal Ahern
Yale University
‘“Some Objects Must Be Moved To Be Revealed”: Flicker Films, Dimensionality, and the Act of Projection in Structural Film and Minimalism’
Patricia Keller
Cornell University
‘What Photography Gives: Surface, Gesture, Action’
Rijuta Mehta
Brown University
‘Photo Finish: Bodily Remains and Statements of Horror’
4:00 - 6:00 (Panel 7B)
Fulton 102
Jane Elliott
King’s College, London
‘Game Theory of Thrones: Fantasy, Survival, Neoliberalism’
Scott Ferguson
University of South Florida
‘Topsy-Turvy Technology in the New Pooh’
Seb Franklin
University of Surrey
‘The Action Unconscious’
Lee Grieveson
University College London
‘The Media State’
6:30 - 8:00 (Keynote)
Fulton A Lecture Theory
Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Action in a World of Dead Labour”