Date/Time
Date(s) - 3 Apr 2014 until 4 Apr 2014
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
NYU 19 University Place
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Medieval and Renaissance Center at NYU presents
Mediality
A conference investigating the mediality — the specific “in-betweeness” — of a range of medieval and renaissance cultural phenomena together with such matters as media awareness, media interference, cross mediality, media and the senses, media and power, and the uses and abuses of drawing attention to the conspicuous mediality of in any object, belief, or practice.
April 3
Opening talk: 6:00 PM, 19 University Place, Great Room
Christian Kiening, Universität Zürich, “Towards a Historical Mediology of the Middle Ages”
April 4, Room 102 19 University Place
8:30 – 8:45: Coffee and registration
8:45-9:00: Opening remarks, Martha Rust
9:00 – 10:30: Mediality and Techne
Catherine Levesque, “Landscape Etching: the Substance of Art”
College of William and Mary, Department of Art and Art History
Lisa Boutin Vitela, “The Art of Imitation: Renaissance Ceramics in the Style of Ming Porcelain”
Cerritos College, Department of Art and Design
Heike Schlie, “The Wound in the Painting. Materiality and Mediality in Albrecht Durer’s Man of Sorrows”
Berlin, Center for Literary and Cultural Research
10:45-12:15: Keynote
Martina Stercken, “Medial Experiments: Exploring Cultural Practices in Premodernity”
Universität Zürich
respondent: Patrick Geary, Institute of Advanced Study
1:30-3:00: Mediality and Message
Shannon Wearing, “Signs, Seals, Ceremonial: Mediating Power in Illustrated Charters and Cartularies in Medieval Spain”
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Nino Zchomelidse, “Mediating Presence: Wax Images in the Middle Ages”
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Art History
Kat Lecky, “Mediating Maps: John Skelton’s Common Cartography”
Arkansas State University, Department of English and Philosophy
3:15-4:45: Mediality and the In-Between
Heather Bamford, “Between Destruction and Reading: The Disuse of Iberian Chivalric Manuscripts”
George Washington University, Department of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literature
John R. Decker, “Between Life and Death: Saintly Suffering, Mediation, and the Struggle for Spiritual Perfection ”
Georgia State University, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design