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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- discussant
 
12:15: 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.

This conference is linked to the March 19-21 MusicUnitesUs residency of the geography-defying performance group Nettle at Brandeis University (Nettle: Music for a Nu World: Cultural Collaboration in the Globalized Age) Please see:
http://www.musicunitesus.info/nettle.html