Intermedia Research Group
Michaelmas Term 2007
October 15
WHY VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES IS NOT WD40:QUESTIONS OF HISTORY, THEORY AND PRACTICE
Dr Marquard Smith (Kingston University and Editor Journal of Visual Culture)
November 1
TALES OF 20TH CENTURY ART: DISCIPLINARY CHANGE IN MODERNIST STUDIES
Professor Hal Foster (Princeton University)
Hal Foster in discussion with Alyce Mahon (University of Cambridge)
November 15
Reading Group. POSTMODERNISM AND THE AVANT-GARDE. Selected texts by Thomas Crow and Fredric Jameson. Chaired by Olga Smith and Sylvia Karastathi.
November 29
MORE NOTES ON THE INDEX: ON CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Professor Margaret Iversen (University of Essex)
Lent Term 2008
January 31
ON AUDITORY CULTURE
Tom Rice and Professor Georgina Born (University of Cambridge)
February 5
SCREEN STORYTELLING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: CINEMA MOVIES, TV AND GAME FICTIONS
Maureen Thomas (Senior Research Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge)
February 14
SLAVE SOUND
Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway)
In Slave Sound Tim Armstrong discusses the persistent linkage between slavery and the culture of sonic reproduction: the idea that the sound of slavery (and particularly the sound of its pain) might echo around the world; that it is collected in specific implements; that it is present as a particular echo in the Spirituals and Blues; in particular performers; and that it is released in various texts written on the borders of slave memory: Jean Toomer's Cane; the WPA slave narratives. This observation leads to further reflections on the master-slave relationship as it is implicated in sonic reproduction.
March 13
MUSICAL THINKING
Reading Group
Dr Simon Jarvis (University of Cambridge)
Simon Jarvis will lead a discussion of his recent article Musical Thinking: Hegel and the Phenomenology of Prosody (Paragraph 28, 2005). To complement this piece, we will also read Theador Adorno's Music and Language: a fragment from Quasi una Fantasia (Verso, 1992).
Easter Term 2008
May 8
DIFFICULTY: ON LIMITS CRITICAL AND OTHERWISE
Dr Jennifer Doyle (University of California at Riverside)
May 22
ASPECTS OF INTERMEDIALITY AND SPECTATORSHIP IN THE MODERNIST EVENT
Professor Christopher Townsend (Royal Holloway, University of London)
May 29
STILL LIVING: THEATRICALITY, PHOTOGRAPH, AND REENACTMENT
Dr Rebecca Schneider (Brown University)
June 12
WORKING WITH MEDICAL ARCHIVES: DISGUST, SHAME AND THE ETHICS OF SPECTATORSHIP
Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck College, University of London)
