Beyond Representation Symposium (Day Two)
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
Friday 28 September, 2012
9am - 6pm, $0/Rsvp
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
The past two decades have been marked by a renewed concern with the agency, presence, and ontological status of crafted things, witnessed in a shift of interest across several fields from questions of iconography and meaning to questions of affect and efficacy. These developments call into question some of the binary oppositions that are foundational to the epistemologies and ontologies of Enlightenment (and post-Enlightenment) thought: animate-inanimate, subject-object, material-meaning, and so forth. They raise significant questions about the nature and operation of things in the world, their materiality, their ability to act or inspire action, and their relation to speech, texts, and words. Acknowledging the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the profound questions raised by these developments, the conference aims to examine the historical antecedents for these 'new' ways of thinking about the material world, to consider their implications, and to imagine the ways in which they might help us develop novel approaches to images, things, and words.
Friday, September 28, 2012

9:00am-6:00pm
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Lecture Hall, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY
Friday’s all-day session at the Institute of Fine Arts is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To make a reservation for this session, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/research/mellon/mellon-beyond.htm or email ifa.events@nyu.edu with "Beyond Representation" in the subject line.
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Patricia Rubin (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Welcome
9:35am
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (New York University)
Media Regimes: Imprinted Matter and the Horizon of Agency (Western Europe, Twelfth-Fourteenth Century)
10:20am
Peter Geimer (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Relics/Stuff: On Composing and Decomposing Aura
11:05am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Milette Gaifman (Yale University)
The Life of Greek Painted Jugs
12:15pm
Glenn Peers (University of Texas, Austin)
Relation and Dividuation in Byzantium
1:00pm
Lunch Break
2:00pm
Beate Fricke (University of California, Berkeley)
Crafts of Blood and Shapes of Life
2:45pm
Frank Fehrenbach (Harvard University)
Infra ‘l vedi e non vedi. Enlivenment in Italian Renaissance Art
3:30pm
Coffee Break
4:00pm
Pamela Smith (Columbia University)
How to Study the Nature of Things: Material Complexes of the Early Modern World
4:45pm
Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins University)
Posture and Sympathy in Leaves of Grass
5:30pm
Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence)
Response
6:00pm
Reception
Please note: seating in the Institute of Fine Arts' Lecture Hall is on a first-come first-served basis with RSVP. Due to restricted capacity regulations, we will provide a simulcast of the lecture in an adjacent room to accommodate overflow from the Lecture Hall.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
9:30am-1:15pm
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Lecture Hall, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY
Saturday’s morning session at the Institute of Fine Arts is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To make a reservation for this session, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/research/mellon/mellon-beyond.htm or email ifa.events@nyu.edu with "Beyond Representation" in the subject line.
9:30am
Coffee
10:00am
Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)
Animist (Re)turns: Shifts in Approaches to Objects in Turn-of-the-Century Histories of Art
10:45am
Caroline Walker Bynum (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
The Paradox of Aniconic/Iconic Materiality in the Middle Ages
11:30am
Horst Bredekamp (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
The Hand Axe and the Anthropology of Picture Act
12:15pm
Christopher Wood (Yale University)
Closing Remarks
12:45pm
Discussion
Please note: seating in the Institute of Fine Arts' Lecture Hall is on a first-come first-served basis with RSVP. Due to restricted capacity regulations, we will provide a simulcast of the lecture in an adjacent room to accommodate overflow from the Lecture Hall.
Academic Programs, Symposia
Friday, September 28, 2012

9:00am-6:00pm
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Lecture Hall, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY
Friday’s all-day session at the Institute of Fine Arts is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To make a reservation for this session, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/research/mellon/mellon-beyond.htm or email ifa.events@nyu.edu with "Beyond Representation" in the subject line.
9:00am
Coffee
9:30am
Patricia Rubin (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Welcome
9:35am
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (New York University)
Media Regimes: Imprinted Matter and the Horizon of Agency (Western Europe, Twelfth-Fourteenth Century)
10:20am
Peter Geimer (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Relics/Stuff: On Composing and Decomposing Aura
11:05am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Milette Gaifman (Yale University)
The Life of Greek Painted Jugs
12:15pm
Glenn Peers (University of Texas, Austin)
Relation and Dividuation in Byzantium
1:00pm
Lunch Break
2:00pm
Beate Fricke (University of California, Berkeley)
Crafts of Blood and Shapes of Life
2:45pm
Frank Fehrenbach (Harvard University)
Infra ‘l vedi e non vedi. Enlivenment in Italian Renaissance Art
3:30pm
Coffee Break
4:00pm
Pamela Smith (Columbia University)
How to Study the Nature of Things: Material Complexes of the Early Modern World
4:45pm
Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins University)
Posture and Sympathy in Leaves of Grass
5:30pm
Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence)
Response
6:00pm
Reception
Please note: seating in the Institute of Fine Arts' Lecture Hall is on a first-come first-served basis with RSVP. Due to restricted capacity regulations, we will provide a simulcast of the lecture in an adjacent room to accommodate overflow from the Lecture Hall.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
9:30am-1:15pm
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Lecture Hall, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY
Saturday’s morning session at the Institute of Fine Arts is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To make a reservation for this session, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/research/mellon/mellon-beyond.htm or email ifa.events@nyu.edu with "Beyond Representation" in the subject line.
9:30am
Coffee
10:00am
Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)
Animist (Re)turns: Shifts in Approaches to Objects in Turn-of-the-Century Histories of Art
10:45am
Caroline Walker Bynum (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
The Paradox of Aniconic/Iconic Materiality in the Middle Ages
11:30am
Horst Bredekamp (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
The Hand Axe and the Anthropology of Picture Act
12:15pm
Christopher Wood (Yale University)
Closing Remarks
12:45pm
Discussion
Please note: seating in the Institute of Fine Arts' Lecture Hall is on a first-come first-served basis with RSVP. Due to restricted capacity regulations, we will provide a simulcast of the lecture in an adjacent room to accommodate overflow from the Lecture Hall.
Academic Programs, Symposia