Program & Speakers
Friday, April 8, 2022
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 157
University of Chicago
1:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Opening Remarks and lunch pick-up
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
‘Evenly Suspended Attention’ in Art-Historical Practice and Theory
Speaker: Whitney Davis (Art History, University of California, Berkeley)
Respondent: Andrei Pop (Committee on Social Thought & Art History, University of Chicago)
2:30 – 3:45 p.m.
Visual Thinking in the Round: The Indian Contribution in Late Ancient Art
Speaker: Jaś Elsner (Classics, University of Oxford & Art History, University of Chicago)
Respondent: Sarah Pierce Taylor (Divinity School, University of Chicago)
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
The Origins of Alois Riegl’s Notion of Attention
Speaker: Margareta Ingrid Christian (Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)
Respondent: Pirachula Chulanon (Philosophy, University of Chicago)
5:15 – 6:30 p.m.
Architecture and the Remedy of Attentiveness
Speaker: Lucia Allais (Architecture, Columbia University)
Respondent: Niall Atkinson (Art History & Romance Languages and Literature, University of Chicago)
7:30 – 10:00 p.m.
Conference Dinner (at Quad Club)
by invite only
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Social Science Research Building, Room 122
University of Chicago
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Human Position: Details in Periphery
Speaker: Lucy Alford (English, Wake Forest University)
Respondent: Rosanna Warren (Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)
10:45 – 12:00 p.m.
The Arts of Attention in France, 1630-1650: Le Nain and Some Others
Speaker: Richard Neer (Art History, University of Chicago)
Respondent: Sam Lee (Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
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Speaker: James Conant (Philosophy, University of Chicago)
Respondent: Cooper Long (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
2:15 – 3:30 p.m.
Diagonal Movement and the Production of Memory in the Documentaries of Alain Resnais
Speaker: Dan Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Respondent: Katerina Korola (Art History, University of Chicago)
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
On Some Hazards of Watching Them Be: Attending to Balthazar and Nénette
Speaker: Julia Mueller (Independent Scholar)
Respondent: Rory Hanlon (Philosophy, University of Chicago)
5:00 – 6:15 p.m.
Attention and Creation
Speaker: Michael Clune (English, Case Western Reserve University)
Respondent: David Wellbery (Germanic Studies & Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)
Organizers: Sam Lee (seminlee@uchicago.edu) and Pirachula Chulanon (pirachula@uchicago.edu)
Faculty Sponsor: Andrei Pop
This conference is generously supported by the Adelyn Russell Bogert Fund of the Franke Institute for the Humanities, Grad Council, the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Germanic Studies, the Department of Art History, the Department of Philosophy, and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.