2017 World Picture Conference

Dates:10-11 Nov 2017

Locations:University of Toronto

Fri, 10 November

9:30 - 11:00 (Keynote)

Bissell 205

Christina Sharpe

Tufts University

“Black Redaction”

 

11:30 - 1:15 (Form)

Innis 222

Eugenie Brinkema

MIT

“The Truth in Forming”

Meghan Sutherland

University of Toronto

“Being, Knowing, Counting: Variations on a Theme”

 

Zachary Campbell

Whitman College

“Cinema and the Form of Facts”

 

Veronica Fitzpatrick

University of Pittsburgh

“WT: See Something, Say Nothing: Horror, Vision,Get Out”

11:30 - 1:15 (Medium)

Innis 312

Scott Richmond

University of Pittsburgh

“WT: See Something, Say Nothing: Horror, Vision,Get Out”

Karla Oeler

Stanford University

“Altman’s Secret Honor: Monologue, Truth, and Tape Recording”

Anders Bergstrom

“What is Truth in Cinema?: Wittgenstein’s Aesthetics and Bazin’s “Myth of Total Cinema”

 

Mikki Kresbach

University of Chicago

“Every move counts, so count every move”

 

2:30 - 4:15 (Uncertainty)

Innis 222

Lilia Kilburn

Harvard University

“Looking at himself ceasing to exist:” The Cinematic Death-Wish and Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Le Président”

Kate Rennebohm

Harvard University

“Jean-Paul Kelly and the Ethics of Belatedness”

Matthew Thompson

University of Toronto

“True Wilderness? On the Frontier of Myth in Capricorn One”

 

Brian Price

University of Toronto

“Value and Wonder”

2:30 - 4:15 (Politics I)

Innis 312

Maggie Hennefeld

University of Minnesota

“The Politics of Truthiness: from Satirical Laughter to Absurdist Belief”

 

Eric Herhuth

Tulane University

“Caricatural Logic in Contemporary Media”

Gordon Sullivan

University of Pittsburgh

“‘A Nice Touch’: Affirmation and the Political”

John Roberts

Georgia State University

“Speculative Figures: Finance Capital and the Post-Crisis Conspiracy Diagram”

4:30 - 6:15 (Aphorism)

Innis 222

James Cahill

University of Toronto

“Time of the Temp: Aphoristic Economies”

Juan Carlos Kase

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

“‘Post-Manson Cinema’: An Exegesis of an Aphoristic Fragment from Susan Sontag’s Journal”

 

René Thoreau Bruckner

Columbia College, Hollywood

“Leavings: The Window and the Aphorism”

 

4:30 - 6:15 (Occlusion)

Innis 312

Scott Krzych

Colorado College

“Seeing, Saying, Sensing: Holding Patterns in The Homesman (2014)”

 

Kyle Stevens

Appalachian State University

“Masking the Truth” Jennifer Pranolo (Amherst College), “Hidden Pictures”

 

Sarah Osment

New College of Florida

“Truth and Renunciation in Postwar American Poetics”

Sat, 11 November

10.00-11.45 (Aesthetics)

Innis 222

Cooper Long

University of Chicago

“The Origins of Arendt’s Aesthetics”

Alessandra Raengo

University of Chicago

“The Origins of Arendt’s Aesthetics”

William Davis

The Colorado College

“Beauty is Truth”

Nicholas Fernandes

University of Toronto

“The Operative Space of Strife: Towards the A-Whereness of Truth”

 

10:00 - 11:45 (False)

Innis 312

Philippe Theophanidis

Glendon College

“On Truth as a Moment of the False: The Camera Obscura’s Ethos”

Terrance H. McDonald

Brock University

“Cinematic Forms of True-False Dynamics in the Films of Michael Curtiz”

Mal Ahern

Yale University

“The Truth in Printing, or: What is an Error?”

Gregory Flaxman

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“Truth and Fabulation in an Extra-Cinematic Sense”

12:00 - 1:45 (Evidence)

Innis 22

Philippe Theophanidis

Glendon College

“On Truth as a Moment of the False: The Camera Obscura’s Ethos”

Terrance H. McDonald

Brock University

“Cinematic Forms of True-False Dynamics in the Films of Michael Curtiz”

 

Mal Ahern

Yale University

“The Truth in Printing, or: What is an Error?”

Gregory Flaxman

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“Truth and Fabulation in an Extra-Cinematic Sense”

 

12:00 - 1:45 (Style)

Innis 312

Ryan Pierson

University of Calgary

“The New Animation and the New Sincerity”

John David Rhodes

University of Cambridge

“The Prop and its Properties”

Scott Durham

Northwestern University

“A Grin Without a Cat?: Aesthetics and the Politics of Truth in Marker, Foucault, and Rancière”

 

Adam Kildare Cottrel

Gwinett College

“Liquid Truth(s)”

3:00 - 4:45

Innis 222

Kristopher L. Cannon

Northeastern University

“Claiming Fidelity to the Self. Or, ‘Baby, I was Born this Way!’”

 

Angelo Restivo

Georgia State University

“The Horizons of Truth Claims in Popular Cultural Production: A Mapping”

 

Robert Cavanagh

California State, Long Beach

“Hot Takes: Allegory and Argument in Contemporary Sports Media”

 

Dan McFadden

University of Toronto

“Accident and Narrative: Truth as Structure”

3:00 - 4:45 (Politics II)

Innis 312

Kalling Heck

University of Redlands

“Hating Movies”

Scott Birdwise

York University/OCAD

“Post-Truth: The Destruction of Political Experience in the Films of Adam Curtis”

Jenny Gunn

Georgia State University

“The Truth is what you want it to be: Selfie Culture and OOP”

 

Fan Wu

University of Toronto

“Living the Madness of Truth: Guattari, Schizoanalysis, and Every Little Thing”

5:00 - 6:30 (Keynote)

Bissell 205

Kennan Ferguson

University of Wisconson, Milwaukee

“The Dissonance Machine”