Program
Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images
Alumni Hall, Victoria University at the University of Toronto
(Note: All “A” Panels will take place in Alumni Hall (Vic 112); all “B” Panels will take place in the Vic Chapel on the 2nd Floor)
Thursday, March 17, 2011:
9: 30–10:30Registration and Coffee
10:30–11:00Opening Remarks
Neil ten Kortenaar, Director, Centre for Comparative Literature
11:00–12:15Queering Icons (Moderator: Natalie Pendergast)
Brendon Wocke (Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones, Università di Bergamo)
“Banksy & the queering of Authority: graffiti, (homo)sexualisation, & The Iconography of British Traditional Authority”
Karen MacFarlane (English, Mount Saint Vincent University)
“Queer Iconography”
Alla Ivanchikova (English, University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
“Iconoclastic Masculinities in BBC3’s Lip Service and Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids are All Right”
12:15–1:15 Lunch – Centre for Comparative Literature, 3rd Floor
1:15–2:30 Keynote Address (Intro by Prof. Eva-Lynn Jagoe)
Carol Mavor (University of Manchester)
“Summer Was Inside the Marble: The Iconoclasm of Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras’s Hiroshima mon amour”
2:45–4:00 Panel A: El icono en América Latina (Moderator: Paula Karger)
Erika Tanács (Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)
“Tales of Profanations: Echoes of Spanish-French Rivalry in La Florida del Inca”
Rebecca Janzen (Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto)
“Holy Writing?: Literary Representations of Religion”
Antonio Viselli (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“In Possession of a Stolen Weapon: the Highwayman from John Gay’s Macheath to Ruben Blades’ Pedro Navaja”
Panel B: Building and Breaking (Moderator: Rachel Stapleton)
Natalie Cleaver (Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley)
“Spenser among the Catholics: Dismantling Ariosto with Dante”
Gael Montgomery (German and Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University)
“Orlando and Iconoplasm”
4:00–4:15Coffee Break
4:15–5:30Panel A: The Making of Iconoclasm (Moderator: Ryan Culpepper)
Heather White (Philosophy, University of Stony Brook)
“Creativity and Self-Sabotage: On the Will to Destroy What We Make”
Marc Champagne (Philosophy, York University)
“Must an Icon be broken in order to function properly?”
Andrea Gyenge (Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota)
“Literature on the Threshold: On Jean-Luc Nancy's ‘Icon of Fury: Claire Denis and Trouble Every Day’”
Panel B: Da! Da! Canada! (Moderator: Myra Bloom)
Sean Braune (English, York University)
“How the Toronto Research Group and Canadada Killed Saussure”
Robert McGill (English, University of Toronto)
“Blinding Images and National Visions in Hugh McLennan’s Barometer Rising”
Jasmine Johnston (English, University of Victoria)
“‘The Striving of purposeful desire, intelligent character, toward manifestation’: The Iconoclastic Poetics of Dane-zaa Dream Maps”
5:45–8:00 Opening Reception, Hosted by the Jackman Humanities Institute (Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George St., Room 100) (Directions)
Friday, March 18, 2011:
8:30–9:30 Registration
9:30–11:00 Traumatic Breakings (Moderator: Ronald Ng)
Thomas Stubblefield (Art History, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
“Icons of Erasure: Defiled Monuments and Reactivation of Memory”
Margeaux Feldman (English, York University)
“Between ‘Something’ and ‘Nothing’: Ethics, Space and Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
T. Nikki Cesare (Drama, University of Toronto)
“If not falling, then flying: Richard Drew's Falling Man, Carolee Schneeman's Terminal Velocity, and the Politics of Witnessing”
11:00–11:15Coffee Break
11:15–12:15 Icons in the Media (Moderator: Joe Culpepper)
Olga Bazilevica (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“Glowing Bones of Time: The Burning Tower and Temporality in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers”
Emily Hoffman (English, Arkansas Tech University)
“A Failure to Capitulate… or, Paul Newman: Icon turned Iconoclast turned Icon”
12:15–1:30 Lunch – Centre for Comparative Literature, 3rd Floor
1:30–2:45 Keynote Address (Intro by Prof. Valentina Napolitano)
Michael Taussig (Columbia University)
“Iconoclasm Dictionary”
3:00–4:00 Panel A: Icons in the Digital Age (Moderator: Sarah Jane O’Brien)
Jeffrey Cook (Anthropology, University of Toronto)
“Digital Iconoclasm: Books, Data, and Destruction in the Digital Age”
Myra Bloom (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“Our Father who art in HD: religious music in a postmodern context”
Panel B: From Madonna to Madonna (Moderator: Jeannine Pitas)
Beth Saunders (Art History, CUNY Graduate Centre)
“Photographic Faith: Marian Apparition Photographs and the Role of Photography in Popular Religious Belief”
Justine Leach (English, University of Toronto)
“The Breaking and Making of the Self: Rape as Iconoclasm in Yvonne Vera's Without a Name”
4:00–4:15Coffee Break
4:15–5:30Collapsing Poetry (Moderator: Antonio Viselli)
Vanessa Robinson (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“Ponge, Fautrier and ‘la rage de l’expression’”
Lauren Beard (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“Blasphemy and the Reinscription of Faith in Baudelaire and Huysmans”
Jeannine Pitas (Comparative Literature University of Toronto)
“What pictures want: Ekfrasis and energaeia in Las musas inquietantes by Cristina Peri Rossi”
6:30 Banquet: Megas Restaurant, 402 Danforth Ave (Just east of Chester Station)
Saturday, March 19, 2011:
9:00–10:45 Medieval Ruptures (Moderator: Prof. Jill Ross)
Daniel Price (Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
“Breaking the Images of the Broken God: the Representational Bodies of Early Saints and their Inevitable Destruction”
Jamee Indigo Eriksen (Comparative Literature, San Francisco State University)
“Hidden Anxieties: Deconstructing the Construction of Identity in the Song of Roland”
Adleen Crapo (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“The Iconoclastic Body in Calvin and Rabelais”
Daniel Brielmaier (Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
“Rupturing Time in Early Irish Verse”
10:45–11:00Coffee Break
11:00–12:15Popular Romance (Moderator: Prof. Christine Bolus-Reichert)
Angela Toscano (English, University of Utah)
“Form and the Formulaic: The Iconoclasm of ‘Happily Ever After’ in Popular Romance”
Jonathan A. Allan (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“Rewriting the Iconic Virgin in Popular Romance”
Łukasz Wodzynski (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“‘The Secret Book of Desire’: Gothic Fantasy in Victor Pelevin’s Novels”
12:15–1:30 Linda Hutcheon and J. Edward Chamberlin Lecture on Literary Theory (Intro by Ryan Culpepper)
Eric Cazdyn (Comparative Literature & East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
“A Future Without an Image”
1:30-2:30 Lunch – Centre for Comparative Literature, 3rd Floor
2:30–3:45 Panel A: Fantasies and Desires (Moderator: Prof. Barbara Havercroft)
Sita Monsef Rao (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“Porn as Political Tool: the Iconoclasm of Catherine Breillat’s ‘Romance’”
Emilie Dionne (Social & Political Thought, York University)
“Inverting the Gaze through the Looking-glass: the Postmodern fairy tales of Angela Carter”
Helen Hester (English, University of Chichester)
“Desecrating Genre: The Pornographer as Iconoclast”
Panel B: Hammering at Icons (Moderator: Adleen Crapo)
Adam Swann (English, Glasgow University)
“How to Historicize with a Hammer: Milton and the Iconoclasm of English Identity”
Deni Kasa (English, University of Toronto)
“Miltonic Iconoclasm and Individual Interpretation”
David Dagenais (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“The Ring of Iconoclastic Hammers in Montaigne’s ‘Apology for Raymond Sebond’ (II,12)”
3:45–4:00Coffee Break
4:00–5:15Panel A: Breaking with the Soviet Union? (Moderator: Łukasz Wodzynski)
Kristina Syvarth (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“Confusion, Chaos, Violence: The Performativity of Language in Daniil Kharms’s Absurdist Prose”
Joshua Kotin (English, University of Chicago)
“Iconoclasm and the Stalin Epigram”
Ryan Culpepper (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“Iconclasm, Appropriation, Iconicization: The Three Lives (So Far) of Andrei Rubliov”
Panel B: Breaking Iconoclasm (Moderator: Rachel Stapleton)
Christopher van Ginhoven (Language and Culture Studies, Trinity College, Hartford)
“Iconoclasm and Hermeneutics: On Teresa of Ávila’s Interior Castle”
Nefise Kahraman (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
“Engineering Turkish-ness: Language Reform and National Identity”
Paul Smith (History of Christianity, Wycliffe University, University of Toronto)
“Created to Destroy: The Destruction of Images in Ancient ‘Magic’”
5:15–5:30Closing Remarks and Thanks
Organizers of “Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images”