Schedule

9:30AM Coffee 

10AM Introduction: Jack Chen & Bruce Holsinger

10:15 “Seeing X Reading” W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History, the University of Chicago

11:15 “Reading Authenticity” Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst

12:15-1:15 lunch

1:15 “Reading Interiority”  Lara Blanchard, Luce Professor of East Asian Art, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

2;15 “Reading Charlottesville” Andrea Douglas, Executive Director, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville

3:15 “(Un)reading Coloniality” Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

4:15-5:00 Discussion: Moderated by Tatiana Flores (Art History) & Christa Noel Robbins (Art History)

5:00 Reception