[Bilimsel Haber] interdisc. grad. conf.: "A Matter of Time: Temporalities of Material Culture, " April 5-6, 2013, Rochester, NY

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Eitan Freedenberg <freedenberg at me.com>



"A Matter of Time: Temporalities of Material Culture"

The University of Rochester Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural 
Studies invites you to *A Matter of Time: Temporalities of Material Culture*

An interdisciplinary graduate studies conference in Rochester, NY
April 5-6, 2013 — Free and open to the public

www.vcsconference.com



As cultural critics have noted over the past thirty years, we seem to be
living in an age of dematerialization. Increased information transfer
speed, the disintegration of boundaries between private and public, and 
the commercialization of image networks have provoked anxiety regarding 
the control of objects and images. Yet, taking a critical stance toward 
the temporal thrust of this thinking—its teleology, its faith in 
progress—we seek to historicize this anxiety as merely another 
renegotiation in a continually evolving relation of time and matter. Has 
our relationship to material objects ever been fixed?


Events include:

Keynote address by Dr. Ivan Gaskell, professor of cultural history and
museum studies at Bard Graduate Center

Panel on current trends in media preservation by students of the L. 
Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation

Presentations by graduate students of literature, visual studies, art
history, and cultural studies at universities in the United States, 
Canada, Poland, and Colombia

The evening of Friday, April 5 will conclude with a reception and 16mm 
film screening.

Breakfast and lunch will be served on Saturday, April 6.


Please visit our conference website for a schedule of events, paper
abstracts, and information about our keynote speaker: www.vcsconference.com.

RSVP to our Facebook event for more updates:

https://www.facebook.com/events/494369233953869/


Sponsors: The Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies; Deans'
Office, College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Departments of
Anthropology, Art and Art History, Film and Media Studies, and Modern
Languages and Cultures; Frederick Douglass Institute for African and
African-American Studies; the Graduate Organizing Group

Eitan Freedenberg
freedenberg at me.com