16 - 17 March 2007 9:30 - 5:0 0pm
While the accelerating pace of globalization over the la st several decades has enabled an unprecedented movement of people and cult ural practice across Canada\, the United States\, and the countries of Lati n America\, there has been little intellectual exchange about the visual an d cultural realms across this same geography. A constellation of both well- established and emerging scholars is scattered throughout regions such as P eru\, Brazil\, Argentina\, Paraguay\, Guatemala\, Mexico\, Canada\, Cuba an d the rest of the Caribbean whose work interrogates the complexities of mod ern cultural production in the Americas. The points that make up this cons tellation\, however\, remain largely isolated from one another. This situat ion calls for a more powerful form of exchange: a sustained discussion of i deas to question assumptions and produce knowledge across the Americas.
It is crucial\, in our view\, to reassert the cultural outline of the Am
ericas as a subject of inquiry and a space of intellectual dialogue and deb
ate.
The purpose of this two-day conference\, international and interd
isciplinary in scope\, is to interrogate and historicize interactions and t
o examine gaps across the cultural terrain of the Americas from the period
that stretches from post-Second World War "reconstruction" to the present\,
and to explore how globalization has impacted (and in turn is impacted by)
the visual arts.
In the interest of predicting audience numbers\, we ask that you please indicate your desire to attend the conference by respo nding to the following email address:solitudes.ubc@hotmail.com
CONFERENCE Schedule
9:3 0 am Serge Guilbaut: Welcome and Opening Comments Professor\, Depa rtment of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory\, University of British Colum bia
10:00 am Philip Resnick: North America as a Subject of Reflection Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of British Columb ia
10:45 am Juan Gaitán: Parallel and Meridian Uto
pias Ph.D. candidate\, Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory\,
University of British Columbia
11:30 am Charlotte Townsend-Gault: Xa’:
ytem - Feeling the Fantasy Associate Professor\, Department of Art History\
, Visual Art and Theory\, University of British Columbia
12:15 pm Lunch
1:30 pm John O’Brian: Love in
a Time of Solitude: The Family of Man Exhibition\, 1955-1962
Professor
\, Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory\, University of Britis
h Columbia
2:15 pm Diana B. Wechsler: Curatorial Sto ries\, Political Stories Researcher of the National Council of Science (CON ICET) and Professor of Sociology of Art\, University of Buenos Aires
3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:15 pm Chant al Pontbriand: TBA Art critic and curator\, editor and founder of Parachute
4:00 pm Pablo Helguera: Mapping the Republic of Con temporary Art (Notes from the Panamerican Highway) Independent visual artis t\, New York and Mexico
4:45 pm Discussion
9:30 am Patricia Marchak: Latin America and the United States: Changes in their Relationships Interim Director\, Liu Institute for Global Issues\, Profess or Emerita\, Department of Anthropology and Sociology\, Dean Emerita\, Facu lty of Arts\, University of British Columbia
10:00 am Thomas Cummins: TBA Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonia l Art\, Harvard University
10:45 am William Wood: De ath and Humiliation in the Canadian Cultural Revolution Assistant Professor \, Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory\, University of Britis h Columbia
11:30 am Paul Chaat Smith: Thirty-Five Ye ars Burning Down the Road Curator\, National Museum of the American Indian\ , Washington D.C.
12:15 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Marcia Crosby: Indian Art Nerds in Vancouver: Marcia Crosby\, Rebecca Belmore\, Cheryl L’Hirondelle\, Warren Arcan\, and Daina Warren Uni versity-College Professor\, First Nations Studies\, Malaspina University Co llege
2:15 pm Monika Kin Gagnon: Cultural Memory and Charles Gagnon’s R-69 Associate Professor\, Department of Communication St udies\, Concordia University
3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:15 pm Martha Rosler: TBA Visual artist and Professor of Visual Arts\, Mason Gross School of the Arts\, Rutgers University
4:00 pm Richard Cavell and Jamie Hilder: Designed Words f or a Designed World Professor and graduate student\, Department of English\ , University of British Columbia
5:15 pm Discussion and Wrap Up
Organized by Serge Guilbaut\, Kimberly Philli ps and William Wood A project of the Green College Interdisciplin ary Academic Support Fund\, with financial assistance from the UBC Office o f Research Services\, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Depar tment of Art History and Visual Art
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