Final Public Events Schedule Announced

RHETORICS and AESTHETIC of MEMORY, RASC/a Graduate Symposium 2015

Department of Art History, Southern Methodist University

FRIDAY MARCH 6, 2015

10:30 am – Keynote speaker – Prof. Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

1 pm – PANEL 1: Trauma and Remembrance (Prof. Charles Hatfield)

            -Naomi Taub, “Trauma and Timescapes in Aharon Appelfeld’s The Iron Tracks”

            -Katja D. Rivera, “Remembering Mexico: Felipe Ehrenberg’s Artists’ Books”

3 pm – PANEL 2: The Construction of Memory (Prof. Noah Simblist)

            -Natalie Dupêcher, “’Like Clocks’: Keeping in Cy Twombly’s Morocco Paintings”

            -Peter Boudreau, “...where grass will never grow: The Alhambra, Remembrance, and a                               Question of Heritage”

            -Lucy McGuigan, “Haunted Vision: Phantasmic Scenes of Iconoclasm in Paintings of                               Collectors’ Cabinets

SATURDAY MARCH 7, 2015

10:30 am – PANEL 3: The Body as Bearer of Memory (Prof. Bea Balanta) 

            -Joe Hartman, “La República: Urban Memories and Giant Women in the Cuban Republic”

            -Deirdre Madeleine Smith, “Death as Catalysis: Adrian Piper’s What Will Become of Me”

            -Jessica Wong Camhi, “’The Dreadful Story of Disease Evil in Human Life:’ History and                         Reception of Eugenics in New Germany”

1:30 pm – PANEL 4: Collective Memories and the Nation State (Prof. Janis Bergman-Carton) 

            -Linnea West, “The Monuments of Skopje 2014: Constructing Macedonian National Identity”

            -Yuan-Ta Hsu, “Hsiang chou and Chinese Nationalism in Lang Jing-Shan’s Composite                             Picture”

            -Casey Kane Monahan, “Appropriated Antiquity: An Emblem of Nostalgia and Memory in                       Britain”

3:30 pm – PANEL 5: Memorials/Counter-Memorials (Prof. Eric Stryker)

            -Nikki Georgopulos, “Beyond the Counter-Monument: Toward a New Mnemonic Art”

            -Anna Bernardi, “The Politics Behind Unbuilt Memory: Memorial to the Six Million Jewish                     Martyrs, New York and ‘Topography of Terror’ Documentation Center, Berlin”

            -Erin Piñon, “Commemorating Genocide: The Armenian Khatchk’ar as National Tombstone”

 *ALL LISTED EVENTS OPEN TO PUBLIC AND LOCATED IN SMITH AUDITORIUM, MEADOWS MUSEUM.

TRAVEL + HOTELS

TRAVEL/ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION -- DALLAS
"The Rhetorics and Aesthetic of Memory," March 6-7, 2015
Smith Auditorium at the Meadows Museum on SMU's Campus

Friday March 6 - registration + coffee/scones at 9am (Visual Resources Library in Hamon Arts Library) // Dr. Michael Rothberg's keynote address at 10:30am (Smith Auditorium)

Saturday March 7 - coffee/scones at 9am (Visual Resources Library in Hamon Arts Library) // first panel at 10:30am (Smith Auditorium)

Dallas has two major airports: DFW International (DFW) and Love Field (DAL)
SMU/Meadows is located approximately 25-30 minutes from DFW and 15 from Love, without traffic.

Meadows Museum
5900 Bishop Blvd. Dallas, TX 75205 
Tel: 214.768.2516 

The Museum is located on the edge of the Southern Methodist University campus, on Bishop Boulevard., one block north of Mockingbird Lane. Entrance to the parking garage underneath the museum is at the corner of Bishop and Schlegel. Parking is free for museum visitors.

Directions to Meadows Museum from DFW International Airport
Take the "south" airport exit to 183 east. Take I-35 east (Stemmons Freeway) proceeding south to the exit marked "To US-75." Move to one of the two left lanes to merge with US-75 north. Continue north on US-75 approximately four miles to Mockingbird Lane (US-75 exit # 3). Turn left, proceeding west, approximately 1/2 mile to Bishop Boulevard. Turn right onto Bishop Boulevard and drive approximately 200 feet to Schlegel Street turn right and make an immediate left into the museum's underground parking garage. Enter the right entrance into the garage which is marked "Meadows Museum Parking Only."

Directions to Meadows Museum from Love Field Airport
Take the airport exit to Mockingbird Lane and turn left on Mockingbird Lane. Proceed east approximately five miles, passing Hillcrest Avenue. Turn left at the next traffic signal, Bishop Boulevard. Drive approximately 200 feet to Schlegel Street, turn right and make an immediate left into the museum's underground parking garage. Enter the right entrance into the garage which is marked "Meadows Museum Parking Only."

Public Transportation to Meadows Museum
For Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), take the Red Line or Blue Line to Mockingbird Station (Mockingbird Lane at Central Expressway). From Mockingbird Station, either:

• walk/bike west on Mockingbird Lane approx. 3/4 mi. to Bishop Boulevard and turn right, the museum is the first building on the right. Bike racks are located opposite the northeast corner of the museum, on Ownby Drive.
• take the free SMU Museum Express (DART bus route 743) to campus. The SMU Museum Express provides continuous service from Mockingbird Station to the Bush Center on SMU Boulevard, and on to the Meadows Museum on Bishop Boulevard, courtesy of SMU. Hours of service on the specially marked shuttle are 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, frequency every 30 min.; 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Saturday, frequency every 20 min.; and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday, frequency every 20 min. There will be no service on Easter Sunday, July 4, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Always visit DART.ORG for the most current service information.
• take the Mustang Express Shuttle (DART bus route 768) to campus, courtesy of SMU. This is a longer route, with stops in the residential areas around Greenville Avenue/Lovers Lane; campus drop-off is on Bishop Boulevard in front of the Owen Arts Center, walk south to the museum, which is the last building on the left. Hours of service on the specially marked shuttle vary depending on SMU’s class schedule but are generally Monday through Saturday, frequency every 20 min. Always visit DART.ORG for the most current service information.
• take DART bus route 521 west on Mockingbird Lane to Bishop Boulevard (this is a regular DART route, standard fares and operating hours apply). Walk north on Bishop, the museum is the first building on the right.

Taxi Companies
Yellow Cab 214-426-6262 

Uber/Lyft

Hotels
Holiday Inn - Dallas Park Cities (across highway from SMU's campus, with free shuttle to campus) --> DISCOUNTED RATE of $109/night (LINK) [updated 1/28]

CFP: The Rhetorics and Aesthetic of Memory

CFP: Graduate Conference: The Rhetorics and Aesthetic of Memory

Department of Art History, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University

March 6-7, 2015

Doris Salcedo, Atrabiliarios (Defiant) 1992-2004; installation; shoes, animal fiber, and surgical

thread.

Memory functions in several multifaceted dimensions: individual, familial, local, regional,

national, and international. Whether memory can be read as an individual construction or as

national one, whether it is a negotiation of trauma or a tool for the construction of individual or

national identity, artists have explored the concept through various strategies, media, and across

history. We invite papers that discuss how the question of memory impacts art and visual culture

throughout history.

Themes may include, but are not limited to:

-‐ art as reconfiguration of individual memory

-‐ construction of photo albums and familial memory

-‐ negotiations of trauma

-‐ representations of national or collective memory

-‐ challenging existing representations of memory

-‐ historical memory

-‐ use of technology to disseminate individual or collective memory

-‐ testimony as exercise of memory

-‐ spectral spaces and geographies; phenomena of ‘haunting’

-‐ memorialization

-‐ material culture, sacred objects, culturally or politically charged objects

-‐ theories on affect; performativity of affect

-‐ museums, archives, and records as sites or spaces of memory

-‐ socio-political critique through memory

-‐ parsing biography and autobiography

-‐ ‘active’ forgetting

Please send 300 word abstracts and questions to rascagrad@gmail.com by December 1st, 2014.

Abstract deadline: December 1, 2014

Decisions made: December 15, 2014

Symposium: March 6-7, 2015