Arts and Terror International Conference
School of Interdisciplinary Arts
College of Fine Arts
May 15-17, 2009
The School of Interdisciplinary Arts held a conference which seeked to examine the relationship between arts and terror through a wide range of disciplines in arts, humanities, and social sciences. What is the nature of terror as it has found and continues to find expression in the arts? How do experiences and representations of horror vary across cultural and historical boundaries? What is the connection, if any, between the terrible and the comical, fear and laughter? What are the effects of recurring holocausts and terror campaigns on our artistic sensibilities and projects? Conversely, does artistic engagement with the experience of terror dispel or promote, neutralize or exacerbate our fascination with the terrible? How are contemporary representations and enactments of this fascination related to the aesthetic doctrines of “pity and fear” and the romantic or postmodern sublime?
The conference was sponsored by the OU College of Fine Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics, Center for International Studies, Faculty Research Support Program, and Scripps College of Communication.
Dr. William Condee , Professor of Theater
Book and Book Chapters:
"Experiments with Architectural Space in the German Theatre," A History of German Theatre, ed. Maik Hamburger and Simon Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008).
Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia . Ohio University Press, 2005.
"Architecture for the Twentieth Century: Imagining the Theatre in the 1920s." In Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices: The Theatre of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity. Westport : Praeger, 2003. "Castles in the Air with a Shifting Foundation: Indeterminate Space in Little Eyolf." In Ibsen and Modernity: The West and China , ed. Wang Ning. Tanjing: Baihua, 2001.
Published Articles:
“Three Bodies, One Soul: Tradition and Burmese Puppetry” has been accepted for publication in Theatre and Performance Studies.
“Two Bodies/One Soul: Tradition and Burmese Puppetry.” Accepted for publication, Studies in Theatre and Performance.
"Uncle Tom's Cluster: Talking Race." Article accepted for publication in "Theatre Topics."
"The Future Is Interdisciplinary." Theatre Survey Special Issue: "Theater History in the New Millennium: A Forum," 45 (2004): 235-40. "'A Step a Scene': A Cross-Cultural Analysis Using Chinese Landscape Architecture to Understand Western Theater Space." Beginning of the New Century: Comparative Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context. Nanjing : Yilin, 2003. "Play and Place: Getting the Class Out of the Classroom." Association for Theater in Higher Education Pedagogy Website (peer reviewed), April 2003. Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, ed. Dennis Kennedy, 2003. Four entries.
International Papers:
"'A Step A Scene': A Comparative Analysis Using Chinese Landscape Architecture to Understand Western Theatre Space." Seventh Triennial Congress of Chinese Comparative Literature Association, Nanjing , August 2002. "[Per]Forming Memory at the Opera House." International Federation for Theatre Research Quadrennial Congress, Amsterdam , July 2002. "Opera Houses in Appalachian America ." Institute for American Studies, Univ. of Leipzig , June 2001. "Why Theatres Work." Institute for Theater Studies, University of Leipzig , June 2001.
Conference Presentations:
“Why Virtuosity?: Poiesis and Praxis in Balinese Arts and Religion.” Paper accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal, Nov. 2011.
"'Uncle Tom's Cabin': Toward an Understanding of Race, Racism and Racialism." Paper presented to the annual conference of the American Society for Theatre Research, Puerto Rico, November, 2009.
“Three Bodies/One Soul”: Tradition and Burmese Puppetry. American Society for Theatre Research, Boston, November 5-9, 2008.
Grants:
Resubmitted a major grant to the NEH for a summer institute entitled “Escape from Uncle Tom? Race in America.”
U.S. Dept. of Education Title VI Grant (Southeast Asian Studies Program), 2004.
Invited Lecture
“Aesthetics of Puppet Theater.” Denpasar State Hindu Dharma Institute (Indonesia), June 2010.
Performance
American Buffalo by David Mamet. Nov., 2010, The Ridges, Ohio University. Director
Kurowa Aguru (Pandawa and Kuruwa Go to Forest for their Education). Wayang kulit (shadow puppet) performance, Ubud, Indonesia, June, 2010.
Teaching Awards:
Presidential Teacher Award, 2003 Excellence in Education Award, Ohio Magazine, 2003 Class of 1950 Faculty Excellence Award, 2002 Outstanding Tutor Award, Honors Tutorial College, 2001 College of Fine Arts Outstanding Senior Teacher Award, 2000.
Dr. Dora Wilson, Director of Interdisciplinary Arts and Professor of Music
Conference Papers:
“Consuelo as Opera” at the Eighteenth International George Sand Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, September 25-27, 2008
"Jean Baptiste Martin as Costumer for the Paris Opera," at The Annual Meeting of the Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,Indiana State University, Terre Haute, October 27-30, 2005
"Art, Music and Poetry in Place: Machaut's Remede de Fortune, Medieval Renaissance Music Conference, Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France, July 2005
Dr. Marina Peterson, Assistant Professor
Publications:
2010 Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
2010 Garden, City, World: Los Angeles’ Late Twentieth Century Multicultural Arts Festivals. In The Politics of Cultural Programming in Public Spaces. Robert Gehl and Victoria Watts, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2010 Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997–2001, by Jeremy Wallach, 2008, University of Wisconsin Press. Popular Music 29(2):303-304.
Peterson, Marina, 2009.
Garden, City, World: Los Angeles’ Late Twentieth Century Multicultural Arts Festivals. In The Politics of Cultural Programming in Public Spaces. Robert Gehl and Victoria Watts, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Peterson, Marina, 2010.
Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Peterson, Marina. 2007. Translocal Civilities: Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts. In Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects. Saskia Sassen, ed. New York: Routledge.
Peterson, Marina. 2006. Patrolling the Plaza: Privatized Public Space and the Neoliberal State In Downtown Los Angeles. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development. 35(4):355-386.
Invited Lectures:
“Public Space and Neighborhood Design.” “Urbanscapes” series in The McGregor Connections Initiative, Denison University. Granville, Ohio, November 11, 2008.
“’Los Angeles at its Best’: The daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra, Public Concerts, and the Multicultural City.” Bethel College. Bethel, Kansas, November 10, 2006.
Conference Papers:
2011 Appalachian Sound Archives Fellowship, Berea College
2011 “Sound Work: Music as Labor and the 1940s Recording Bans.” Southern Labor Studies Association Conference. Atlanta, GA, April 7-10.
2010 “Unequal Circulations: Civil Society and the Arts.” Discussant and co-organizer of panel. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. New Orleans, LA, November 17-21.
2010 “Petrillo’s Voice.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings.
New Orleans, LA, November 17-21.
2010 Discussant for “Unequal Circulations: Civil Society and the Arts.” Panel organized for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. New Orleans, LA, November 17-21. (co-organizer)
2010“Petrillo’s Voice.” To be presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. New Orleans, LA, November 17-21.
“Law, Labor, and LPs: The 1940s Recording Bans and Public Performance in the U.S.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2-6, 2009.
“The LAPD: Performance and Ethnography in Downtown L.A.” Presented at Performance Studies International #14. Copenhagen, Denmark, August 20-24, 2008.
"Improvising in Beirut: Nation-State Making and Cultural Diplomacy in a Post 9-11 World." Presented at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music – U.S./Canada Conference. Boston, Massachusetts, April 26-29, 2007.
“Garden, City, World: Los Angeles’ Multicultural Arts Festivals.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Jose, California, November 15-19, 2006.
Concerts:
The Tabadol Project, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York, February 2007
Openport Festival, Chicago, February 2007
Performances in Karlsruhe, Germany and Lucerne, Switzerland, March 2007
Awards and Fellowships:
2010 NEH Summer Institute, “Mapping and Art in the Americas,” Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Charles S. Buchanan , Associate Professor
Invited Paper
"The Palatine Bible, A Visual Assault Against a Two-Headed Monster," at the Colloque Bibles Atlantiques, organized by the Department of Theology at the Université de Genève. The acts of the colloquium will be published by SISMEL, based in Florence, Italy.
Solicited Review
Reviewed Dorothy Glass’ The Sculpture of Reform in North Italy, ca. 1095-1120: History of Patronage of Romanesque Facades (Ashgate) for Speculum.
Alick M. McLean, Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State (New Haven: Yale University, 2009), for caa.reviews, the on-line review journal for the College Art Association.
Invited Entry
The Atlantic Giant Bibles for The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art, to be published by Oxford University Press in March, 2011.
Publication
Entry in the Atlantic Giant Bibles was published in the Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art.
“An Illustrated Romanesque Hagiographic Lectionary (Lucca: Biblioteca Capitolare,Passionario C): Inspiration, Formulation, and Reception,” Studies in Iconography, vol. 28 (2007), 111-169.
Organized and Chaired a Session
“Novel Narratives, Narrative Novelties” at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in May. My session was linked to the theme of Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy, which was sponsored by the Italian Art Society.
Conference Presentations:
“A Tree of Consanguinity in an Eleventh-Century Book of Decrees by Burchard of Worms (Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS. 124) and the Ecclesiastical Effort to Control Marriage,” at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies at Saint Louis University, 15-16 October 2010.
“The Schism of 1054: Council Representation and Performance in Two Tuscan Burchard Manuscripts” at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies.” The session was entitled “Performance, Performativity, and Italian Art.” The abstract of the above paper was published in AVISTA Forum Journal: Medieval Science, Technology, Art, vol. 19:1/2 (Fall, 2009), p. 98.
“The Schism of 1054: Council Representation and Performance in Two Tuscan Burchard Manuscripts” at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, June, 2009.
Book Review:
Solicited book review of Alick McLean’s book, Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008), was published in September by caa.reviews.
He is presently working on a book entitled "Manuscript Painting as Polemic in Central Italy during the Gregorian Reform."
Dr. Vladimir Marchenkov, Associate Professor,
Conference Presentation
"Harmonia Nova Mundi: The New Harmony of the World," at the School of Visual Arts Twenty-Fourth National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, 27-29 October 2010, New York. I also presided over a panel on "Urban Architecture" at the same conference.
Dr. Andrea Frohne, Assistant Professor
Conference Papers
“African Intellectual Decolonization: Sembene, Sartre, and Senghor”. Presented at Perspectives on African Decolonization: African Intellectuals and Decolonization at Ohio University, October 2008.
“Knowledge Production as Transpiritual Memory at the African Burial Ground in NYC”. ASA in Chicago, IL, November, 2008.
Co-convened African Literature Association National Conference, Ohio University, April 2011
Book manuscript has been submitted to the publisher and is under review.
Lily Wei, doctoral student
Conference Presentation
PSi16 Performing Publics, Toronto. Presented 'The Performing Publics in the Wild Strawberry Student Movement', June 9-13, 2010.
Everyday Life in the Segmented City. Presented 'Impuesto Po?tico: Creative Appropriation of Everyday Spaces through Urban Intervention', July 22-25, 2010.
ASTR2010. 'Impuesto Po?tico: Appropriation of Everyday Life Urban Spaces through Participatory Performance' presented in the Re- Territorializing the City: Power, Place and Performance in the City working session, November 18-20, 2010.
Abdullah Mohammad, Ph.D. Candidate
Conference Presentations
“Unfair Past, Puzzling Present, Disorienting Future? The film industry in Tanzania.” Battleground States 2009 Cultural Studies Conference: “The Future,” Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 26-28 February 2009.
“From Intellectuals to Amateurs, from Literature to Film: Contemporary Artistic Practices in Tanzania.” Annual Conference of the African Literature Association University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 15-19 April 2009.
“Generation under Attack: African Child and the Video Hut, Tanzania’s Experience.” Including the Children Celebrating 10 Years of the Institute for the African Child Conference, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 12-14 March 2009.
Adel Wang, doctoral student
Conference Presentations
February 2011: Guest Lecture: "China's sound art" in the course of "Performance Studies: Sound" taught by Dr. Marina Peterson, School of Interdisciplinary Arts.
March 9-13, 2011: “Thousand Origins of The Field of China’s Experimental Music and Sound Art.” 37th Annual Conference of International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 9-13, 2011.
March-April, 2011: Co-organizer of the concert and workshop, “Sonorous Presence: China-U.S. Experimental Collaborative”, sponsored by Arts for Ohio, The School of Interdisciplinary Arts, The School of Theater, The School of Music, The Center of International Studies.
May 13, 2011: Presented the documentary Outside/Inside at Ohio University Student Research and Creative Activity Expo 2011.
“Sound Walk: Engaging the Public Through Listening and Walking.” P aper to be presented at Performance Studies International#16 Performing Publics, Toronto, Canada, June 9-13. 2010.
“Freedom in Listening: Depiction of Sound Art in Beijing.” Paper presented at Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, April 16-17, 2010.
“Returning Native/Returning Other: Entering the Notes of Chinese Independent Art”, at the Panel of “Deterritorializing and Reterritorializing the Field: Stability, Change, and Ethnographic Identity” In National Communication Association, Illinois, Chicago, Nov 12-15, 2009.
“Ugly as Beautiful, Death as Life: The Existential Aesthetics of Butoh Dance”, at the International Conference on Art and Terror, Ohio University, May 15-17, 2009.
“Worlding in the Underworld: Depiction of Chinese Sound Artists”, at The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2009, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 20-23, 2009.
“Performing Philosophy: That of Love, Myth and Existence”, at The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2009, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 20-23, 2009.
“Portrayal of Geisha Identity in Memoirs of a Geisha”, at the annual meeting of Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Cultural Association, Cincinnnati, Ohio, 2008.
Publication: “Lingering after Crossing the threshold: On Chinese ‘Workers with Sounds’ and Beyond. To be published in Yinyue Yanjiu [Music Research], 2011.
Peggy Murray, Ph.D. Candidate
Teaching and Choreography:
Co-taught (with Dr. Dorothy Olsson) Baroque dance classes at Amherst Early Music and Fine Arts Department of Rutgers University, Camden Winter Weekend Workshop.
Classes included Baroque dance technique and choreographies from the English Baroque (hornpipes, rigadoons, paspes and jiggs) reconstructed from early notations, January 16-19, 2009.
Participated in an intensive workshop on French and Spanish Baroque dance at Case Western Reserve with noted choreographer-reconstructor Ana Yepes, February 14-15, 2009.
Performed, lectured and taught Baroque dances in a series of high school presentations in Central New York with the early music ensemble NYS Baroque. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts through Partners for Arts Education, performances featured music and notated dances from early French and English operas, lectures on various facets of Baroque culture, and students learning minuets and contredanses, May and June 2009
Conference Presentation:
Paper presentation at the Society of Dance History Scholars annual conference at Stanford University: “Dancing on the Plaza: Investigating Theatrical Dancing in Colonial Peru through the Form and Function of Lima’s Plaza Mayor”, June 19-22, 2009.
Monica Gontovnik, Ph.D. Candidate
Publications:
“Cuando Una Cosa es Otra Cosa: El Performance de Maria Teresa HIncapié como Imagen-Tiempo.” Huellas, Revista de la Universidad del Norte, No 85,86,87. January, 2011. http://www.uninorte.edu.co/publicaciones/huellas/index.asp
“Tacking Transnational Shakira on the Way to Conquer the World.” Revista Zona Próxima. Universidad del Norte, January 2011. http://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/zona/article/view/632
Edition: La Falda de Huitaca.
On line feminist journal
Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
Issue 5 January 2011.
http://www.uninorte.edu.co/publicaciones/falda_huitaca/
Newspaper Columns
El Heraldo
Barranquilla, Colombia:
2011:
May 31: El tío Jaime.
May 17: A propósito de Catalina.
May 3: Para tomar en serio.
April 2: De eso no se puede hablar.
March 20: Cisne Blanco, Cisne Negro.
March 5: Por un carnaval intangible.
February 19: Revolución Pacífica.
January 28: Ya no más.
January 22: Hay cosas que no entiendo.
December 14, 2010:¡La Pola arrodillada, amarrada, fusilada!
Cuando Una Cosa es Otra Cosa, Revista Huellas, Universidad del Norte. (Forthcoming)
Transnational Shakira, Zona Proxima, Education Magazine of the Universidad del Norte (Forthcoming)
Intentando Explicar el Ciberfeminismo. En Otras Palabras. Journal of the Group Woman and Society. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, January, 2010.
Speaking desde las heridas: Cibertestimonies Transfronterizos/ Transborder Testimonies through Cyberspace. Ed. Claire Joysmith, México: UNAM, 2009.
Incomplete Opus, A Poetry Anthology. Barranquilla: Institute of Culture Editions, 2008.
Time transfigured, Prologued and Edited Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda, Barranquilla: Universidad del Norte Editions, 2008.
Conference Presentation:
“Tracking Transnational Shakira”. 37th Annual African Literature Association Conference, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. April, 2011
When Something is Something Else: Reading Maria Teresa Hincapie’s Performance as Deleuze’s Time-Image. Caribbean Association of Philosophy Conference: Changing the Geology of Reason, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia, August 12, 2010.
Performing Identity, Latin American Studies Conference, Ohio University. Ohio, USA. February 27, 2010.
Performing Identities, II International Caribbean Studies Conference, Cartagena, Colombia. March 19, 2010.
Performing Identity: Choc Quib Town. The XIII Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Sympium at Ohio State: (Re)Imagining Spaces:Migration, Identity and Memory. April 24, 2010.
Lope de Vega Rap, Lo Fingido Verdadero Study Group, Video Presentation. ASTR Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 15, 2009.
Kore Dance Theater, a Colombian Poor Theater Success; Acting and Directing Symposium, 30th Mid-America Theater Conference, March 7, 2009, Hyatt Regency, Chicago.
Creator, Co-coordinator,
Latin American Film Series,
Ohio University,
Winter Quarter 2010.
Performance Art:
Testaferrato. Collective piece. Intervention of the National Art Salonç Colombia, December, 2010.
Max Tohline, doctoral student
Experimental short film "The Mission of Art is to Reverse the Flow of Entropy" premiered at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, April 26, 2011.
Kristofer Olsen, doctoral student
19th Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies - Boston University - "Engaging Africa's Dynamism Across Disciplines" - Presented a paper entitled "Musical Creativity Across Africa: Questioning Monolithic Definitions" - March 4-5, 2001
1st Annual Graduate Students in African Studies Symposium - Indiana University - Bloomington, IN - "Cultural Traces, Places, and Cyberspaces: African Modernity and Identity in the Era of New Media" - Presented a paper entitled "“Takai on YouTube: What Effect Does New Media Have on Traditional Ghanaian Musical Creativity?” - April 2, 2011
2011 Conference of the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology - Bowling Green State University - Bowling Green, OH - "Music in Everyday Life" - Presented a paper entitled "It’s Our Time: Conceptions and Appropriations of the Everyday in Trinidad’s 2010 Panorama Competition” - April 8-10, 2011
37th Annual African Literature Association Conference - Ohio University - Athens, OH - "African Literature, Visual Arts & Film in Local and Transnational Spaces" - Presented a paper entitled " I Bring What I love: Transnational Producer/Director Chai Vasarhelyi’s Documentary About Transnational Artist Youssou N’dour’s Album 'Egypt'" - April 18-22, 2011
Boston University Music Society 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference - "Music as Tension, Music as Release" - Presented a paper entitled "Trinidad and Tobago’s Steel Orchestras: Musical Resistance Becoming a Cultural Icon" - May 7, 2011
Performed with Azaguno African Drumming and Dance Ensemble (Dr. Paschal Yao Younge and Dr. Zelma Badu-Younge, Directors) in Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan, as part of the 2011 7th Taiwan International Percussion Convention sponsored by the Ju Percussion Group - May 20 - 28, 2011
Artist-in-Residence at West Elementary School - Athens, OH - taught hand drumming to kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade music students of Melanie Horne - May 2011
Laura Dobrynin, doctoral student, presented a paper entitled "The Spectacle of the Violated Body in
Renaissance Tuscany: The Sermons of San Bernardino and the Lives of Saints"
during the Plymouth State University Medieval and Renaissance Forum Plymouth
State University, New Hampshire, April 2008, as well as a paper entitled "In the
Company of Lady Barbers and Rogues: Cecco Angiolieri's Comedy and the Palazzo Comunale, San Gimignano" during the Forty-third International Congress on
Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2008. She also has a article,
"Bulgarin's Saint Francis: A New Sienese Depiction" under review for
publication in volume 25 of the Rutgers Art Review.
Sarah Templeton Wilson, doctoral student
Workshop
Sarah Templeton Wilson taught a 1-week workshop for Chautauqua Institutions Special Studies Department: "Preserving Your Family's Photographs" August 17th-21st, 2009.
Conference Presentation
"The Search for the Immortal and the Civil War" at the Third Annual Graduate History Conference at Ohio University on May 9, 2009.
Chip LInscott, doctoral student
Invited Presentation
"
Postcolonial Assemblages: Time and the Body in African Film." University of
West Florida Genius Loci Visiting Scholar Series. March 5, 2009.
Conference Presentations
“The Lives and Deaths of Images: Digital Style and Inland Empire” on October 24, 2009 at “Style: The 2009 World Picture Conference” in Stillwater, Oklahoma at Oklahoma State University.
""Congratulations: It's a Sign": Semiotics, Science Studies, and Procreant
Language." Semiotic Society of America Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana,
October 3-5, 2007.
"
Discovering the Material: Embodiment, Semiotics, and Science Studies."
Battleground States Cultural Studies Conference, Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, Ohio, February 22-24, 2008. "Indexicality and the Moving Image: The Birth and Death of Film." Battleground
States Cultural Studies Conference, Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, Ohio, February 26-28, 2009.
"Trajectories in Interdisciplinary Research: Inside The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” at the European Cinema Research Forum Conference in Columbus, Ohio, at The Ohio State University, April 27-29, 2007.
“The Heuristic Value of the Arts” at the Crossing Boundaries Conference, an international conference investigating the nexus of the arts, education, and community, held at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 9-12, 2007.
Erin Schwartz, doctoral student. In December 2008, attended the Australian Critical Races and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRWSA) conference in Melbourne, Australia where I presented the paper, "Ingrid Mwangi: Enacting the Body as Stage". In April 2009, presented the paper "Visions of the body in the art of Berni Searle and Zineb Sedira" at the Midwest Art History Society (MAHS) conference in Kansas City, MO. and "Self-Exposure: the Performance Work of Ingrid Mwangi and Hassan Musa" at the African Literature Association conference in Burlington, VT. She received the Student Enhancement Award offered by Ohio University to make four short trips to exhibitions, archives and conferences to support my dissertation research. The first such trip will be to Los Angeles from June 4-10.
She has a paper under consideration for publication in the Journal for the International Conference on Arts in Society, the title of the article: "The Labyrithine Man: Roland Barthes, Photography and the Subjective Experience". She presented a paper, “From Kiefer to Kirchner: Expressionist Identity in German Art” at the Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, April 2008. She attended the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in Paris, France where she presented a paper: "Waldeinsamkeit: German Romanticism and 'Subjective Realism'". Erin has also written a book review for FOCUS magazine on Josh Cohen's "Interrupting Auschwitz", FOCUS is a newsletter for the German Studies department of the University of Cincinnati, this will be published some time this year.
Shannon Harry , doctoral student, presented papers, "Veiled Feminisms: The Women of Rachida," Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, Feb, 2009 and "The Battle of the Veil: Viva L'Aldjerie and the Women of the New Algeria" at the Midwest Popular Culture / Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 3-5, 2008.
Book chapter (forthcoming): "Postfeminism and the Postcolonial Cinematic Subject," in Foregrounding Postfeminism and the Future of Feminist Film and Media Studies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Dan Dennis , doctoral student
Conference Presentations:
"Genet, Hansberry, and the Limits of Whiteness." Mid-America Theatre Conference. Hyatt Regency at the Arcade, Cleveland, OH. March 4-7, 2010.
“The Discovery of the 'Real' Real: Terror and Boredom in the Nord-Ost Theatre Crisis” Arts and Terror Conference. School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University, Athens, OH. May 2009.
“Performing First-Person Astronomy: Re-Introducing the Alchemical Subject in the Planetarium.” Radical Intersections Conference. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. April 2009.
“Imagining the Future of the Arts in Small Town Mid-America: The Case of the Song of Norway Festival of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.” Battleground States, a conference of the Culture Club at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. February 2009.
“The Audience-Centered Planetarium Experience of STARBALL: a Low Tech Alternative to the Theme Park Ride Planetarium Show” at the International Planetarium Society, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, June 30, 2008.
Performances:
Performed with Singer-Songwriter Johan Ackermann at Seattle’s Rendezvous and Annex Theatre, November 2010.
STARBALL by John Kaufmann and Dan Dennis. Davis Planetarium at Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD. February 19-21, 2010.
Directing the upcoming production of Lionel Bart's musical "Oliver!" for Ohio Valley Summer Theater. To be presented at Ohio University's Baker Theater in Kantner Hall, July 2009.
"The Will to Live." Original Wayang Kulit performed for the opening of the exhibit "Puppets and Mythology: Southeast Asia" at The Dairy Barn Arts Center. March 6, 2009.
Workshops:
"From Storybook to Puppet Show." Workshop and performance for children and adults on story structure, puppet making, and creating adapted or original puppet theater. April 18, 2009.
Children's workshop on connecting the voice and the body with the Athens Homeschool Choir. Focused on Dalcroze Eurhythmics and singing of rounds. January, 2009.
Directing:
Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Produced by Ohio Valley Summer Theater. Forum Theater, Radio/TV Building, Ohio University, Athens, OH. July 16 – August 1, 2010.
Teaching:
Taught THAR 172 Elements of Performance for Ohio University’s School of Theater, winter quarter 2011.
Theater instructor and facilitator, Summer Circle Arts Program, Nelsonville, OH, Summer 2010.
Director, Athens Homeschool Choir, Arts/West, Athens, OH, Autumn 2010.
Will be starting a tenure-track position in the theatre department of the University of Kentucky in the fall teaching world theatre and Asian performance.
Director, Athens Homeschool Marching Choir. Weekly music class for children, offered at Arts/West, Athens, OH. 2010.
Stage Direction
Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, Ohio Valley Summer Theater, Forum Theater, Radio/TV Building, Ohio University, July 2010.
Music Composition
Created and recorded a new soundscore for Living Voices’ multi-media theater piece Our Revolution, December 2010.
Score for Our Revolution by Rachel Atkins, Living Voices, Seattle, November 2010.
Completed dissertation proposal, currently titled “Sound and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Theater,” May 2011.
Conducted dissertation research with SITI Company for their New York City mounting of Charles L. Mee’s play Under Construction, April 2011.
Committee member, College of Fine Arts committee on the creation of the Center for Arts Innovation and Studies, spring 2011.
Finalist, I. Hollis Parry/Ann Parry Billman Fine Arts Award, March 2011.
College of Fine Arts, Please click on the following to see information regarding the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowships, 2007.
Ovgu Gokce, Ph.D. Candidate, presented a paper entitled "From Pathos to Nostalgia: Yavuz Turgul's Cinema of Sentiments" at the Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow University, July 2005. Her most recent publication is an article entitled as “Çek Yeni Dalgasý: Parlak Bir Kuþaðýn Temsilcileri”, ToplumBilim Avrupa Sinemasý Özel Sayýsý (“Czech New Wave: Pioneers of a Brilliant Generation”, Toplumbilim European Cinema Special Issue), Istanbul: Baglam Yayinlari, 2005. Her first short film, "Sleep and Then" (Uyku Sonra) is awarded Best Experimental Film Award from Ankara International Film Festival (Turkey), got a special mention in New York Short Film Festival, and the third prize in experimental film in 2005 Athens International Film+Video Festival. The film has been screened in several film festivals in Turkey, France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, U.S. and most recently is invited from Campinas Festival,Brazil. Ovgu Gokce is one of the founders and a member of editorial board of Altyazi, one of the two monthly film magazines in Turkey, and contributing with monthly reviews and critiques since 2001. She will present her paper
entitled "A Possible Transnational/Cross-Cultural Life in the Universe" at the 2006 Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference in Istanbul.
Haeyoung Youn, Ph.D. candidate, has published the article “Considering Do-ho Suh’s Installation Art in Asian democracy” in the International Journal of Arts in Society and presented articles in international conferences:
“The Understanding of the Digital Image in the Perspective of T.W. Adorno’s Concept of Mimesis,” International Conference on Fear &Awe in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema, State University of West Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006.
“The Ambiguous Boundary Between Individual and Public Spaces in Asian Democracy,” Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2006.
“The Effect of the Transverse of the Actual and the Virtual in New Media Art”
Conference on Transversalities: Crossing Disciplines, Cultures and Identities, The University of Reading, England, 2005.
“Kamro-do: Buddhist Negotiation and Compromising with the Chosun Dynasty,” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2005.