Friday, November 7, 2003:
6:30 - 9:00 pm Dinner Banquet at The University Club, 803 State Street
Orientation and Introductory Presentation by Charles Hallisey, Professor of
Languages and Cultures of Asia (UW—Madison)**pre-registration and pre-payment
required**
Saturday, November 8, 2003:
9:00 - 9:15 am Welcome and Opening Comments
First Panel: Ethics of Reading: Verbal Texts
Keynote Speaker:
9:15 - 9:55 Of Sirens and Silens: The Ins and Outs of 'Obscene' Romanesque Sculpture
John Dagenais, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese (UCLA)
9:55 - 10:15 Comments and Questions
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:30 Panelists:
10:30 - 11:00 Dislocated Readers, Dislocating Texts: Towards an Alternative
Cosmology of Reading
Karen Derris, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (University of Redlands)
and
Natalie Gummer, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (Beloit College)
11:00 - 11:30 Reading as Sensory Subversion
Sabine Gross, Professor of German and Affiliate Professor of Theater and Drama
(UW—Madison)
11:30 - 12:15 Response from Peter Bol and Discussion
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch Break
Second Panel: Practices of Reading Visual Texts
Keynote Speaker:
2:00 - 2:40 The Knowing Reader and Visual Narratives in Buddhist India
Vidya Dehejia, Professor of Indian and South Asian Art (Columbia University)
2:40 - 3:00 Comments and Questions
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15 Panelists
3:15 - 3:45 Following the Rainbow: A Projective Prismatics of Reading
Jill Casid, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture Studies (UW—Madison)
3:45 - 4:15 Aspects of Pictorial Narration in Japanese Art
Quitman E. Phillips, Associate Professor of Art History (UW—Madison)
4:15 - 5:00 Response from John Dagenais and Discussion
5:00 - 6:30 Reception at The University Club, 803 State Street
Sunday, November 9, 2003:
Third Panel: Practices of Reading Social Texts
Keynote Speaker:
9:00 - 9:40 am Rooting the Changing Self in the Shifting World: Gardens as/and
Texts in Seventeenth Century China
Peter K. Bol, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Harvard University)
9:40 - 10:00 Comments and Questions
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15 Panelists
10:15 - 10:45 Street Signs: The 'Reading' Subject of the Social 'Text' in Walter
Mosely's WALKIN’ THE DOG
Mary Layoun, Professor of Comparative Literature (UW—Madison)
10:45 - 11:15 City as Text: Partial Readings at Different Scales
Preeti Chopra, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture Studies (UW—Madison)
11:15 - 12:00 Response from Vidya Dehejia and Discussion
12:00 - 12:30 pm Concluding Remarks