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Darwin's Doubles: February 12, 2009
To what extent might evolutionary thought illuminate aspects of artistic and literary representation? Are artistic and literary representational practices themselves in part governed or conditioned by evolutionary imperatives? Are processes of 'nautrual selection' in any sense evidenced in the careers of artistic and literary works? Works in this symposium range from novels and works of "high art" to zombies and videogames.
Michael Rush (Director of the Rose Art Museum): Introduction
John Plotz (English and American Literature): Anthropology, Social Evolution, and the Victorian Novel
Brian Friedberg (Cultural Production): From Cell to Outer Space: Playing at Evolution in Video Games
Steve Miller (Artist): Taking Gaia's Pulse: The Health of the Planet Project
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Hitting Close to Home: Art and Human Rights from Slavery to Guantanamo
Artistic and literary representational practices have long been vital in human rights discourse, as they were in discursive formations, including anti-slavery and anti-suttee campaigns, that preceded the emergence of "human rights" as a recognizedsite of knowledge and action. This symposim is specifically concerned with works of art, witnessing, and documentation that profoundly collapse or challenge conventional mechanisms of "distance," forcing viewers and readers to confront violations of dignity and rights in their immediate environs, or that demand interlocutors reflect on their complicity in seemingly distant scenarios of violence and oppression.
Starting the Conversation: Memorializing Guantanamo
Part One: Introductions and Notions
Part Three: Julian Bonder on Premature Memorial Efforts
Part Four: On Memorializing Under Conditions of Absence
Symposium
Julian Bonder (Memorial Architect and Artist): Memorializing Trauma
Fernanda Senatori (Cultural Production): Acting Together on the World Stage: An Emerging Video Project
Mark Falkoff (Northeastern Illinois University): Human Rights and Literature: Poetry from Guantanamo
Atem Aleu: Exhibition Opening "Painting Face on War: Spirit and Witness in the Art of Southern Sudanese Refugees"
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