2016 World Picture Conference
Dates:13-14 Dec 2016
Locations:University of Cambridge
Tue, 13 December
9:30 - 11:00 (Expropriation)
McCrum Lecture Theatre
Meghan Sutherland (Chair)
University of Toronto
Karl Schoonover
University of Warwick
“Cinema’s Land Expropriation”
Connie Scozzaro, Jeff Nagy
Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University
“Putting the Home in Homemade Porn: Real Estate in Pornography after the Housing Crisis”
11:30 - 1:00 (Identification)
McCrum Lecture Theatre
Seb Franklin (Chair)
King’s College London
Abe Geil
University of Amsterdam
“Empathy: Property or Habit?”
Joe Luna
University of Sussex
“Properties in the Poetry of William Fuller”
Brian Price
University of Toronto
”Shame and the Picture of Togetherness”
2:00 - 3:30 (Non-human)
McCrum Lecture Theatre
Michael Lawrence (Chair)
University of Sussex
Laura McMahon
University of Cambridge
“Improper images: Denis Côté’s Bestiaire”
Fabienne Colignon
University of Sheffield
”Overlook and Insectkind”
Matthew Thompson
University of Toronto
“Dolphins, Extraterrestrials, and Nonhuman Intelligence”
4:00 - 5:30 (Enclosures)
McCrum Lecture Theatre
Ian James (Chair)
University of Cambridge
Seb Franklin
King’s College London
“Parameters/Perimeters: On Informatic Enclosure”
Romy Opperman
Penn State University
“Property is World Destruction: Decolonizing our gaze with Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent”
Christine Okoth
King’s College London
“Racializing Properties and Migratory Blackness”
6:00 (Keynote)
McCrum Lecture Theatre
Getrud Koch
Free Universitat Berlin
“Aesthetic Properties and Values: What Can One Possess?”
Wed, 14 December
9:30 -11:00 (Improprieties)
McCrum Lecture Theatre
Emma Wilson (Chair)
University of Cambridge
Eugenie Brinkema
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Wallpaper and the Rudeness of Love”
Paul Merchant
University of Cambridge
“Outside in: the ethics of trespassing in Una semana solos”
Jules O’Dwyer
University of Cambridge
“Entre la chambre et le monde: Dieutre and Akerman’s apartment thresholds”
11:30 - 1:00 (Markets)
McCrum Lecture Theatre
Joanna Page (Chair)
University of Cambridge
Alex Forbes
Independent Scholar
“Having and holding Europe: Property, the Market Economy and the Couple in Krystof Kiéslowski’s Three Colours: White”
Patrick Smith
Concordia University
“The physical fabric of the house: property, spatiality and the neoliberal in Patrick Keiller’s The Dilapidated Dwelling”
Teet Teinemaa
University of Warwick
“Betting against the American imaginary: Property in The Big Short”
11:30 - 1:00 (Renunciations)
New Combination Room
Alice Blackhurst (Chair)
University of Cambridge
Keston Sutherland
University of Sussex
“Disowning Interiority
Tom Hastings
University of Leeds
“Why I’m not talking about my artwork”
Alice Honor Gavin
University of Sheffield
“Identity Theft, or the Suspension of the World”
2:00 - 3:30 (Literal Abstractions)
McCrum Lecture Theatre
Carlos Fonseca Suárez (Chair)
University of Cambridge
Meghan Sutherland
University of Toronto
“The Property of Variety”
Ed Luker
Northumbria University
“On Improper Poetry”
John David Rhodes
University of Cambridge
“Towards a Theory of the Prop”
2:00 - 3:30 (Ontologies)
New Combination Room
Martin Crowley (Chair)
University of Cambridge
Ani Maitra
Colgate University
“Uncoupling Identity from Property or, the Intermedial Properties of Identity”
Darius Lerup
University of Cambridge
“Despotism and the Deleuzian Territory”
Markos Hadjioannou
Duke University
”The Properties of Medial Inter/activity: Agnes Varda and Deborah Scranton’s Images of Self and World”
4:00 - 5:30 (Media)
McCrum Lecture Theatre
Rhiannon Harries (Chair)
University of Cambridge
Domietta Torlasco
Northwestern University
Rhythm Against Property: Victor Burgin’s Prairie
Erika Balsom
King’s College London
“Instant Failure: Polaroid’s Polavision, 1977-80”
Carrie Reese
University of Toronto
“Writing in Blood: Ownership and Language in Ana Mendieta’s Films”
6:00 (Keynote)
McCrum Lecture Theatre
Brenda Bhandar
SOAS, University of London
Racial Regimes of Ownership: Thinking Through Property with Cedric J. Robinson