DARTMOUTH COLLEGE and the UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH
present an international conference

EUROTRASH?
modern simulacra of renaissance art

organized by Adrian Randolph (Darthmouth College) and Tristan
Weddigen(University of Zurich)

March 18th , 2011
Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich

Program:

Session 1
Chair: Beate Fricke (University of California, Berkeley)

Johannes Endres (University of California Riverside): Freud’s
Renaissance. How the Early Modern Artist Became Popular

Joseph Imorde (University of Siegen): Michelangelo’s David Globalized

Session 2
Chair: Julia Gelshorn (University of Vienna)

Melissa Renn (Harvard Art Museums): Even Better than the Real Thing?
Life Magazine’s Illuminations

Jeanette Kohl (University of California Riverside): He-Man and It-Girl.
The Afterlife of the Machiavellian Prince in Contemporary Political
Imagery

Beat Wyss (Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design): Vasari’s Chimaera
and Totemism in Modern Art

Session 3
Chair: Stefan Neuner (University of Basel)

Jörg Scheller (Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich): Oration on the
Dignity of Muscle. The Afterlife of Humanist Thought in Bodybuilding and
Fitness

Valentin Nussbaum (National Taiwan Normal University): Renaissance ‘de
façade’. Treacherous Survival in Brian de Palma’s Obsession

Session 4
Chair: Wolfgang Brückle (University of Basel)

Douglas N. Dow (Kansas State University): History and the Hyperreal:
Assassin’s Creed II, Simulation, and the Historical Act

Jens Baumgarten (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil): A Sacred Las
Vegas in São Paulo: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and the Foundation of
Brazilian Art History

Session 5
Chair: Mateusz Kapustka (University of Zurich)

Arnold Bartetzky (University of Leipzig): ‘Palaces for the Working
Class’. Neo-Renaissance in Eastern European Architecture and Mass
Culture under Stalin

Berthold Hub (University of Vienna): African Renaissance? A Simulacrum
of St. Peter’s Basilica in Côte d’Ivoire