From L'Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres Courtesy of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago.

 Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

Illustration

How do visual artifacts and forms edge and define literature, whether at its margins or folded within the text itself?  How are literature and image practices shaped in interaction with each other across genres and media?  How are texts and images used with and against each other to create effects of power and persuasion? How does mass culture shape the intersection of text and image practices from its 19th century invention to the present day?


10:00-11:30
Sharon Marcus
"The Fashionable Female Gaze "
Emily Apter
"Kapital: The Novel" (Madame Bovary)

11:45-12:45
Discussion

2:00-3:30
Anne Higonnet
“The Culture of the Copy: Manet East/West”
Vanessa Schwartz
“Icons: Overused and Undervalued in Modernity's Visual Economy."
Anthony Vidler
“The Aerial Photograph: Nadar to Debord”

3:45-5:00
Discussion

Discussants: Nancy Armstrong, Leslie Camhi, Kate Flint, William Schaefer, Richard Terdiman

Bill Brown
"Novel Objects: Object Relations in an Expanded Field"

Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters
Discussants: Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, Aamir Mufti

Deidre Lynch, The Economy of Character
Discussants: Deidre Lynch, April Alliston, Susan Schuyler

Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall