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Questions regarding this conference should be directed to the program Administrator Mr. Mangok Bol at mbol@brandeis.edu or Program director Prof. Mark Auslander at mausland@brandeis.edu
Graduate Student Conference 2009
Culture Combat: Provoking the Social Imaginary Saturday March 14, 2009
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE 9:00am: Gallery Opens (Art & Posters) 10:00am: Informal Gallery Talk Moderated by Mark Auslander 10:45am Opening Remarks: Adam Jaffe, Dean of Arts and Sciences Mark Auslander, Director of the MA in Cultural Production Bryce Peake, Conference Organizer 11am: Provoking Belonging: Race and Identity Theresa Barbaro: Healing and Having Culture Through Commodity Form Katie Hargrave: Is This Plymouth Rock? Sage Rogers: Tearing it Up: Trickster Art and Artists Dori Aspuru: Race, Logos, and Internet Store Fronts Mary Baine Campbell- discussant12:15: Lunch (Provided) 1pm: Art Trumps Money? Social Value and Culture Combat in the Rose Art Museum Roundtable Disucssion, moderated by Laura Miller 2pm: Receding Horizons: Visuality and Power Pryanka Nandy: Invoking the Indian Social Imaginary Miki Sisco: Who’s on Top? Power, Agency, and Choice in Women’s Consumption of Pornography Brian Butler Evan Parks: The Activation of Imagination in Matthew Barney
Kevin Driscoll: YouTube Decay Andreas Teuber- discussant 3:30pm: Keynote Address by Wayne Marshall
As global and local cultural fields are increasingly desensitized to shock and awe, how are we to conceptualize and respond to provocative images, speech acts, signs, environments, sounds and performances? In what respects are edgy cultural forms driven by commodified markets and consumer hunger for novelty? Conversely, under what circumstances might the outrageous, the transgressive, the disruptive, the experimental, or the grotesque catalyze meaningful social critique and popular movements for social transformation? What new, virtual and emergent imagined communities are signaled and inspired through cultural productions that forcefully cut across conventional categories of thought, perception and action?
Keynote Address by Wayne Marshall, Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethnomusicology, Brandeis University.