BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250816T134022EDT-8850xnPNG0@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250816T174022Z DESCRIPTION:Please join the Department of Art History and Communications fo r our Annual Symposium on Thursday\, April 25th\, 2013 from 12:00 pm to 3: 45pm. All are welcome.  ------------------------------------------------- -------------------- SCHEDULE: 12:00pm - 12:50pm: Darin Barney Grain o f truth: wheat\, barley and oats as truth-procedure In this paper\, I wil l discuss recent changes to the grain handling and marketing systems on th e Canadian prairies\, up to and including the dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk. Focusing on the story of the Battle River Railw ay in central Alberta\, the paper will chart a series of material changes that have worked to undermine the democratic\, co-operative subjectivity t hat has historically characterized prairie grain producers and to encourag e in its place a subjectivity more consonant with contemporary neoliberali sm. It will also recount organized efforts by farmers to resist these chan ges\, arguing that these latter are exemplary of Alain Badiou’s account of politics as a “truth-procedure.”  12:55pm - 1:45pm: Angela Vanhaele n Bodies in Motion: Automata in the Labyrinths of Early Modern Amsterdam Although not well remembered\, the Amsterdam Labyrinth gardens were much- publicized civic attractions in the seventeenth century. Publicity materia ls provide detailed descriptions and imagery of the novel attractions disp layed at these pleasure gardens\, which included multi-cursal hedge mazes\ , fountains embellished with unusual hydraulic effects\, waxworks\, and au tomata: mechanical figures that moved “as if they were alive” the guideboo ks proclaim. This paper analyses these exhibition sites as commercial urba n spaces for the display of technological novelties. By assessing how itin erant visitors moved through the maze gardens\, I argue that they were inn ovative spatial and temporal apparatuses that aimed to incorporate new tec hnologies\, experiences\, and understandings of the human body into early modern society.   - Break: 1:45pm to 2:00pm -  2:00pm - 2:50pm: Bec ky Lentz Textual Politics: Rendering Visible the Discursive Infrastruct ure of Policy AdvocacyPolicy advocacy\, especially on digital media policy issues like “network neutrality”\, is largely an insider’s game demanding considerable technical\, legal\, political\, and economic expertise. Draw ing on information infrastructure\, critical discourse\, document\, and ge nre theory\, I provide a framework for understanding the necessary genre-k nowledge that outsiders must marshal in order to represent their interests in policy change. By focusing on the Media Action Grassroots Network—a lo cal-to-local advocacy network of community organizations in the U.S. worki ng together to end poverty\, eliminate racism\, and ensure human rights—th is paper analyzes how typically marginalized groups managed to mobilize su ch knowledge in the network neutrality debate between 2002 and 2012.   2 :55pm - 3:45pm: Jeff Moser Chinese Bronzes in Ritual Time The eleventh c entury witnessed a clash in China between two competing systems for recons tructing classical Confucian liturgies – one derived from transmitted text s\, the other from excavated artifacts. In this paper\, I argue that the n egotiation of this conflict was conditioned by a classical tension between linear and cyclical models of ritual time. By explaining how this tension affected the choices that artisans made when using ancient bronzes as mod els for new objects\, I demonstrate why many of the forms conventionally d eemed “archaistic” in the liturgical arts of late imperial China might mor e appropriately be termed atemporal. Reception to follow   DTSTART:20130425T160000Z DTEND:20130425T194500Z LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She rbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Annual Art History and Communication Studies Departmental Symposium URL:/ahcs/channels/event/annual-art-history-and-commun ication-studies-departmental-symposium-225502 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR