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”