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    This working group aims to bring together scholars from different historical periods to discuss how past theories of images and their technologies can provide new perspectives for understanding contemporary art and media. Rather than claiming that one historical period is privileged, the group sees these encounters as a generative model where scholars can share resonances between the past and present. The contemporary historian acts as a bridge between how the past can inform our understanding of the contemporary, and how contemporary issues can shape our understanding of the past. The group will feature presentations from scholars using their historical research as a starting point for engaging with these ideas.

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    This working group aims to bring together scholars from different historical periods to discuss how past theories of images and their technologies can provide new perspectives for understanding contemporary art and media. Rather than claiming that one historical period is privileged, the group sees these encounters as a generative model where scholars can share resonances between the past and present. The contemporary historian acts as a bridge between how the past can inform our understanding of the contemporary, and how contemporary issues can shape our understanding of the past. The group will feature presentations from scholars using their historical research as a starting point for engaging with these ideas.

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    HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO/FROM THE CONTEMPORARY

    A Working Group of the Whitney Humanities Center

    Description
    How do past theories of images and their circulation contribute to our articulation and
    understanding of contemporary art, new media, and their technologies? How do contemporary
    arts and technologies contribute to our articulation of past images and their media? This working
    group aims to bring scholars of various historical periods together in order to discuss the manner
    in which past image theories, applications, and technologies offer critical resistance and new
    discursive spaces for art and media research. Such connections, while conceptually rich, cannot
    always be tied neatly to any historical genealogies or teleological narratives nor should they.
    Instead, this working group hopes to forge a critical space where researchers who work in and
    across various historical and methodological areas can share the resonances and possibilities
    offered by such connections. Rather than claiming that the Egyptian, the Medieval, or the
    Baroque, for example, have a privileged place from which to comment on such parallels, this
    group presents these encounters as a methodology for contemporary scholarship and art. The
    lessons from the contemporary also contribute to many scholars understandings and
    articulations of their own objects of study. While this may be at times frowned upon as
    anachronistic or an ahistorical forcing of the past, this working group encourages an active
    discussion on how this may serve as a generative, creative, and ethical model of scholarship
    geared for present uses and applications. The contemporary historian serves as a hinge between
    these two vectors of feedback, the past in the contemporary and the contemporary in the past.
    Participants shall be asked to engage the twofold drives of this encounter, using their own
    historical research as a starting point from which to enter the present.

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    Schedule

    Fall 2012

    1. After Lives of Art


    After Life
    Amy K. Powell (University of California, Irvine)

    2. Literary Temporalities
    Time and Translation
    Mary Kate Hurley (Yale University; Columbia University)

    Spring 2013

    3. Object-Oriented Ontology
    The Inventory as Negative Description
    Allison Stielau (Yale University)

    4. Procedural Rhetoric
    Against Iconography: The Procedural Rhetoric of the Byzantine Icon
    Roland Betancourt (Yale University)

    5. Para-Academic Methods and the BABEL Working Group


    A Radicant Humanities
    Discussion of the work of Eileen A. Joy (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville)

    6. Temporalities: Queer and Otherwise


    Sacra/Mentality in and around Djuna Barness Nightwood
    Elizabeth Freeman (University of California, Davis)

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