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:
"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:
"'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:
U.S. Dept. of Education Title VI Grant (Southeast Asian Studies Program), 2004.
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:
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:
“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
Dr. Charles S. Buchanan , Associate Professor, has recently published the following: “An Illustrated Romanesque Hagiographic Lectionary (Lucca: Biblioteca Capitolare,Passionario C): Inspiration, Formulation, and Reception,” Studies in Iconography, vol. 28 (2007), 111-169. In June, 2009 he delivered the following paper: “The Schism of 1054: Council Representation and Performance in Two Tuscan Burchard Manuscripts” at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. He is presently working on a book entitled "Manuscript Painting as Polemic in Central Italy during the Gregorian Reform."
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.
Abdullah Mohammad, doctoral student
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
“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.
Peggy Murray , doctoral student
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 , doctoral student
Publications:
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:
Kore Dance Theater, a Colombian Poor Theater Success; Acting and Directing Symposium, 30th Mid-America Theater Conference, March 7, 2009, Hyatt Regency, Chicago.
Thomas Spreelin MacDonald, doctoral student
Awards and Fellowships
2009-2010 Anthony Trisolini Graduate Fellowship, Ohio University Graduate College
Refereed Publications
"A Magical Realist Performance Intervention in Appalachian Ohio.” Graduate Student Interventions, eds. Craig Martin, et. al. Syracuse: Syracuse University Graduate School P [forthcoming].
“Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda’s She Plays with the Darkness” [revised version]. Selected Papers of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association (2007). ed. Sandra Dixon and Janice Spleth [forthcoming].
“Shifting Bodies: Death and the Public Function of Post Apartheid Literature.” Expressions of the Body: Representations in African Text and Image. ed. Charlotte Baker. Oxford: Peter Lang [forthcoming].
“Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda’s She Plays with the Darkness.” Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on Zakes Mda. eds. Johan Jacobs and David Bell, Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal P [forthcoming].
“What’s the word Johannesburg?”: Creating a Black South African-African American Space in the Black Atlantic.” Atlantikos 2.1 (2007): 48-64.
“Southern African Aesthetics of Migration across Performance, Literature, and Film.”Papers Presented at the First Performing Africa! Visualizing Africa! Conference, 2007.
Solicited Publications
“Vonani Bila and the ‘Rural’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Returning to the Sources:
New Critical Perspectives on African Indigenous Knowledges. ed. Nicholas Creary. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing [forthcoming].
“A Response to Vonani Bila’s poem “missing.”” Timbila Journal of Onion Skin Poetry 2008. Elim, South Africa (2008).
“The Owl and the Storyteller: Chenjerai Hove.” Ohio University Spring Literary Festival 2007 Tabloid, 7.
Conference Presentations
African Studies Association Annual Conference, 2008. Chicago: “Generating Knowledge About Local Literary Practices: A Case Study of the Timbila Poetry Project of South Africa.”
African Intellectuals and Decolonization Conference, 2008. Athens, OH: “The Emergent Self in South African Black Consciousness Literature and Discourse.”
Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, 2008. New York City: “The Dialogic Elaboration of the ‘Jim Comes to Joburg’ Theme in South African Cultural Production.”
Ohio University Graduate History Conference, 2008. Athens, OH: “The African Woman as Storyteller (?): A Historiographic Reflection.”
Enabling Local Knowledge in Africa Symposium, 2008. Athens, OH: “Beyond the Template of ‘Literary Culture’: Indigenous Epistemologies and Popular Appropriations of Literary Practices in South Africa.”
Michigan State University Africanist Graduate Research Conference, 2007. East Lansing, MI: “‘Jim Comes to Joburg’ and the Dialogic Elaboration of Migration Themes in South African Cultural Production.”
AUETSA/SAACLALS/SAVAL Worlds, Texts, Critics Conference, 2007. Durban, South Africa: “An Interpreter in Ohio: Zakes Mda’s Cion.”African Educational Research Graduate Forum, 2007. Athens, OH: “The Ghosts of Hegel's Others: The Limits of Universalism in the Study of Africa in the American Academy.”
African Literature Association Annual Conference, 2007. Morgantown, WV: “Magic and Modernity in Zakes Mda’s She Plays with the Darkness.”
African Studies Association Annual Conference, 2006. San Francisco: “The Aesthetic of Migration in the Post-Apartheid Era: Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow.”
African Children and African Media Conference, 2006. Athens, OH: “The African Child as the Subject of Adult Fiction: K. Sello Duiker’s 13 Cents.”
Invited Lectures
African Literature Association Annual Conference, 2009. Burlington, VT: ““Vonani Bila, the ‘Rural,’ and Indigenousness in Post-apartheid South Africa.”
“Words, Riots and Races: Understanding the Struggle Over Contemporary South African Public Culture.” Group Areas Project—South Africa Round Table with Zakes Mda and Beatrice Selotlegeng. Ohio University, June, 2008.
“An Introduction to African Film.” Guest Lecture for an Introduction to Africa class (INST 113). Ohio University, February, 2007.
Laura Dobrynin, doctoral student, will be presenting 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:
“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:
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.
Carissa Massey, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Art History in the History Department at Bemidji State University and taught art history this past year for Ohio University’s School of Art in the same capacity. Upcoming projects include “Mountain Mamas: Images of Appalachian Mothers in American Visual Culture,” Article in progress for a Feminist Anthology. “Mary and Eve, Virgin and Whore, Jessica and Lynndie: Moralizing Visions of Appalachian Women in American Visual Culture,” The Women of Appalachia: Their Heritage and Accomplishments Conference, Ohio University at Zanesville, OH. (20 October, 2006) “Dirty Flesh and Artistic Ego: Tension between the Real and the Ideal in Jean-Desiri-Gustave Courbet’s Female Nudes,” Women’s Studies Colloquium Lecture, Ohio University. (15 September, 2006)
College of Fine Arts, Please click on the following to see information regarding the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowships, 2007.
Steven Rybin, Ph.D., is the author of The Cinema of Michael Mann, a
study of the director's films in relation to issues of film style, criticism,
genre, and authorship, forthcoming from Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield
(August 2007). He has presented the following essays at conferences: "Godard's
Aesthetic Reconstruction: The Aura in the Digital Age and Eloge de l'amour," at
the European Cinema Research Forum in Columbus, Ohio (April 28, 2007); "The
World's Wound: Terrence Malick's Heideggerian Adaptation of James Jones' The
Thin Red Line," at the Midwest Popular Culture\American Culture Association
Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana (October 28, 2006); and "Ousmane Sembene's
'Mandabi' and 'Xala': Character Interiority and Film Adaptation," at the 14th
annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media at Northern
Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois (March 31, 2006). His writing on film
has also appeared in the online web journal Senses of Cinema.
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.