SAHA Symposium
"Negotiating the Intersections of Art and Text"
September 17-18, 2004
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Society of Art History and Archaeology, a graduate student
organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is
sponsoring a graduate student symposium to be held September 17-18, 2004 .
This symposium will be a forum for students to present twenty-minute
papers organized under the broad theme of the “Intersections of Art and
Text.”

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Friday, September 17, 2004
3:00-3:15 Opening Remarks
3:15-4:45

Panel 1
New Media: Hybrids of Art and Text

* Janice Page, University of Missouri
“Traces of Body/ Tone of Text: In the Art of Advertising” (Abstract)

* Shawn Gilmore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“From the Victorian Novel to 21st Century Film: Alan Moore’s The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as a Graphic Meditation on the ‘heroes’
of Victorian Literature” (Abstract)

* Annie Bourneuf, Princeton University
“Read Through the Stereoscope: On an Unfilmable Film Scenario by
Joseph Cornell” (Abstract)

Saturday, September 18, 2004
8:30-9:00

Bagels and Coffee
9:00-10:30

Panel 2
Powerplay: Political Implications of Art and Text

* Ellen O’Neil Rife, University of Kansas
“Nature and Power in Johan Nieuhof’s Description of Batavia” (Abstract)

* Chris Bennett, University of Michigan
“Freedom and Negativity in the Art of Boetti” (Abstract)

* Sarah Kanouse and Nick Brown, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
“Touring the Archive, Archiving the Tour: Image, Text, and
Experience with the Center for Land Use Interpretation” (Abstract)

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break
10:45-12:15

Panel 3
Text vs. Image, Image vs. Text

* Phoebe Segal, ColumbiaUniversity
“Pictorial Representations of Greek Myth: Image and Text in Ancient
Greece” (Abstract)

* Summer Cameron, University of California at Santa-Barbara
“Remembering in 16th century Mexico: Diego de Valadés Teaches the
Alphabet” (Abstract)

* Sharon S. Bautista, ColumbiaUniversity
“Implied Words and the Primacy of Pictorial Representation in the
Work of Ed Ruscha” (Abstract)

12:15-1:15

Lunch
1:15-2:45

Panel 4
Pictorial/Textual Production in the 20th Century

* Linda Leeuwrik, BrynMawrCollege
“Material Matters: Painting and Writing in the Work of Kandinsky
and Marc” (Abstract)

* Adrian Kohn, University of Texas at Austin
“The Varying Mediums of Lawrence Weiner” (Abstract)

* Prudence Peiffer, HarvardUniversity
“Dredging the Visible: Text and Image in Roni Horn’s Another Water”
(Abstract)

2:45-3:00

Coffee Break
3:00-4:30

Panel 5
From Text to Image

* Gail Gould, University of Oregon
“Baroque Narratives: The History of the Temple Expressed in the
Architectural Decoration of the Venetian Synagogues” (Abstract)

* Min Yong Cho, University of Michigan
“Architectural Poetics: The North Dome of the Great Mosque of
Isfahan” (Abstract)

* Jennifer C. Edwards, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Imag(in)ing the Saint: Visual and Textual Vitae Devoted to
Radegund in Poitiers 1050-1300” (Abstract)

5:00-6:30

Keynote Address

Linda Seidel, University of Chicago
“Simple or Symbol?: The Language of Flowers in Late Medieval Painting”