The Scene of Writing the Seen, University of Toronto (online)
We are happy to share the news of the Reading Group Ekphrasis’ (Webpage: https://german.utoronto.ca/reading-group-ekphrasis-text-image-denkraume-3/) upcoming online workshop on December 17th and 18th. A fantastic international and interdisciplinary group of speakers including the keynote by Catriona MacLeod (Chicago) will speak on the topic of text-image relations:
Friday, December 17th:
10-11:30am: Manifesting the Scene
Grazia Pulvirenti (University of Catania) & Renata Gambino (University of Catania)
Ekphrasis, embodied simulation and the act of imagination
Chana Algarvio (University of Toronto)
Hieroglyphs as Art and Art as Hieroglyphs: Ancient Egyptian Text-Image Relations
Anne-Marie McManus (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)
Ekphrasis and the Arabic Letters: Materiality, Interpretation
12:00 Keynote:
Prof. Catriona MacLeod (University of Chicago)
2:30-4:00: Ekphrasis reconsidered: Mise-en-Scène
Hong Liu (University of Toronto)
Legibility of the tragic under the saturnine gaze: Walter Benjamin's reading of Dürer's Melencolia I
Ella Wilhelm (University of Chicago)
Ekphrasis Classical and Romantic: The Transformation of a Genre
Ryan Dong Yan (University of Georgia)
How to Detect Invisible Force in Still-Life Art?
Saturday, December 18th:
10-11:30am: Uncovering the Scene: Politics & Ekphrasis
Alia Soliman (University College London)
The Limits of Alterity: Compulsive Visuality in Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station
Margaryta Golovchenko (University of Oregon)
Institutional Critique as Poesis in Robin Coste Lewis' Voyage of the Sable Venus
Una Tanovic (University of Massachusetts)
Ekphrasis and Empathy: Representations of the Bosnian War in Photography and Poetry
1-2:30: Returning to the Seen
Megan Pounds (University of Michigan)
Intermedial Exchange and the Dada Event: Ekphrasis in Hans Richter’s Dada—Kunst und Antikunst and André Breton’s “Entrée des médiums”
Sara M. T. Goeth (University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Rilke’s Briefe über Cézanne and Neue Gedichte as a textual museum
Todd Maslyk (University of Michigan)
The Physics of Resistance
All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
If you would like to participate, please register by using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd09-z0AmdroSF6ZvXxKghf7PAIG2UnRKAB9v1E-4IV5hVaGQ/viewform
Please contact us via email (ekphrasis.toronto@gmail.com, andre.flicker@mail.utoronto.ca) for any further information.