Program Schedule
10:15pm
Welcome
10:30pm-12:00pm
Panel 1
Afro-Pessimism and the End of Redemption
Frank B. Wilderson, III, Professor of Drama, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and African American Studies, School of the Humanities, University of California Irvine
How Do We Read a Painting Now?
Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, University of Southern California
Respondent: TBD
Moderator: Giulia Ricco, Ph.D. Candidate, Romance Studies
12:00pm-1:00pm
Lunch Break
1:00pm-2:30pm
Panel 2
Against Digital Art History
Claire Bishop, Professor of Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center
The End of Translation
Jacques Lezra, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, New York University
Respondent: Esther Gabara, E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Co-Director of Global Brazil Humanities Lab, Duke University
Moderator: Elizabeth Baltes, Ph.D. Candidate, Ancient Art and Archaeology, Duke University
2:30pm-3:00pm
– Break –
3:00pm-4:30pm
Panel 3
Locating Voice: Italian, Romance Studies, Hosts, Guests, Translations
Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature; Faculty Director, The Humanities Initiative at New York University
Almost Citizens: Racial Translations, National Belonging and the Global “Immigration Crisis”
Lorgia García Peña, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature at Harvard University
Respondent: Michaeline A Crichlow, Professor of African & African American Studies, Duke University
Moderator: Alisha J. Hines, PhD Candidate, History and African & African American Studies, Duke University