2019 World Picture Conference
Dates:8-9 Nov 2019
Locations:University of Toronto
Friday 8 November, 2019
10:00 - 11:30 (Keynote)
Innis Town Hall
Elizabeth Rotternberg
DePaul University
“The Value of Jewish Jokes in Freud: Making the Case for Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious”
11:45 - 1:15 (Aesthetics)
Innis Town Hall
William Davis
The Colorado College
“On the Value of the Valueless Aesthetic”
Eugenie Binkerma
MIT
“Against Valuable Formalism (On Catastrophe and Color)”
John Paul Ricco
University of Toronto
“The Value and Virtue of Disappearance”
Lauren Cramer
University of Toronto
“Improper Blackness: An Aesthetic for Nothing”
11:45 - 1:15 (Matter)
Innis College, Room 222
Wiliam Davis
The Colorado College
“On the Value of the Valueless Aesthetic”
Eugenie Brinkema
MIT
“Against Valuable Formalism (On Catastrophe and Color)”
John Paul Ricco
University of Toronto
“The Value and Virtue of Disappearance”
Lauren Cramer
University of Toronto
“Improper Blackness: An Aesthetic for Nothing”
2:15 - 3:45 (Additions)
Innis College, Room 222
Olga Blackledge
University of Pittsburgh
“On Aesthetic, Narrative, and Ideological Values of the Ornamental in Animation”
Philippe Theophanidis
York University
“Work Beyond Value: The Image in Giorgio Agamben’s Thought”
John David Rhodes
University of Cambridge
“The Value of the Prop”
2:15 - 3:45 (Aconsciousness)
Innis College, Room 312
Ruochen Bo
University of Toronto
“The Silent, Mediated and Forgotten in Affirming Life: Thinking Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Cinematic Historiography with Nietzsche”
Caitlyn Doyle
Northwestern University
“Counter-Dreaming: The Revaluations of Indigenous Cinema”
Jean Ma
Stanford University
“The Promise of Sleep”
3:45 - 5:15 (Knowledge)
Innis College, Room 222
René Thoreau Bruckner
Columbia College Hollywood
“Klatch Value”
Eric Herhuth
Tulane University
“The Valuation of Conscience”
Timothy Holland
Emory University
“Beyond Belief”
3:45-5:15 (Judgement)
Innis College, Room 312
Dan McFadden
University of Toronto
“Re-Evaluation: The Politics and Culture of YouTube “AESTHETICS”
Martin Blumenthal-Barby
Rice University
“The Exemplarity of Particulars”
Mingyi Yu
Harvard University
“Must bias imply correctness? A critical history of judgment, 1954/1974”
Saturday 9 November, 2019
9:30-11:15 (Keynote)
Innis Town Hall
Akira Mizuta Lippi
University of Southern California
“‘Like Cats and Dogs,’ Catastrophic Syntax”
11:30 - 1:15 (Incommensurability)
Innis College, Room 222
Allesandra Raengo (Chair)
Georgia State University
“Dope Shit and White Sublime: The Story of AJ”
Sara Saljoughi
University of Toronto
“Incommensurate Futures and the Value of Valuation”
Elizabeth Wijaya
University of Toronto
“Someone, Somewhere, Somehow, and the Conundrum of Chinese Cinema”
11:30 - 1:15 (Politics)
Innis College, Room 312
Alessandro Brunazzo
Yale University
“The Value of Populism: Pasolini and the Voice of the People”
Kalling Heck
Louisiana State University
“When is Populist Cinema?”
Kyle Stevens
Appalachian State University
“Drowning in Humor”
2:15 - 3-45 (Equivalence)
Innis College, Room 222
Laurel Ahnert
Northeastern University
“Catastrophic Equivalence in ‘Post-Truth’ Documentary”
Scott Durham
Northwestern University
“‘Que chaque oeil négocie pour lui-même’: Equality and Equivalence in the Politics of Aesthetics”
Jenny Gunn
Georgia State University
“Flat on Our Faces: The Face as Value Form in Digital Culture”
4:00 - 5:30 (Movement)
Innis College, Room 222
Scott Krzych
Colorado College
“Falling Subjects, Elevated Objects, and Other Tipping-Points”
Ganga Rudraiah
University of Toronto
“The Value in Spill(ing): Speculative Notes on ‘Cinedance’ and Cinematic Motion”
John Winn
Duke University
“Embryonic Cinema: The Technological Dynamics of Epigenesis in the Busby Berkeley Musical”
4:00-5:30 (Redistributions)
Innis College, Room 312
Lawrence Alexander
University of Cambridge
“Face Value? Metaphor and Metalepsis in
Harun Farocki’s Interface and The Expression of Hands”
Adam Kildare Cottrel
Georgia Gwinnett College
“The Anti-Parachute Theory: On the Ecstasy of Abandonment, the Value of Coats, and Robert Schwentke’s Der Hauptmann”
Ryan Pierson
University of Calgary
“Design as Democracy: Little Magazines and Vachel Lindsay’s Film Theory”
5:45 - 7:15 (Desire)
Innis College, Room 222
Mal Ahern
University of Washington
“The Gold Diggers: Beauty and Accumulation”
Terrance McDonald
Brock University
“Processes of Desire in Sook-Yin Lee’s Year of the Carnivore (2009)”
Erin Nunod
University of Toronto
“The Value of Sex?: On Queerness and the Undesirable”
5:45 - 7:15 (Frictionless)
Innis College, Room 312
Benjamin Crais
Duke University
“The Logistical Image: On Flatness, Quantification, and Management”
Patrick Smith
Concordia University
“Value, Violence and the Counter Logistic Project”
Matthew Stoddard
University of Toronto
“The Banal Cronenberg”