Program of Events [PDF, 303KB]
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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| 2:00-2:30 pm |
Conference Opening |
| 2:30-4:30 pm |
Session 1
Moderator: Cassandra Sciortino, USA
Alison Rebecca Hokanson, USA
Henri De Braekeleer as a Forerunner for the Treatment of Light in Belgian Symbolist Painting
Liesbeth Grotenhuis, Holland
Isis' fingertips: the Symbolist use of starry skies
Robert Doré, France
The Symbolist Path of Armand Point
Susan Martis, USA
Light, Obscurity and Symbolist Themes in American Sculpture, 1885-1920 |
| 4:30-4:45 pm |
BREAK
(Food and refreshments in the Solarium) |
| 5:00-6:45 pm |
Session 2
Moderator: Liesbeth Grotenhuis, Holland
Anna Mazzanti, Italy
From the "Fuoco" to the "Notturno". Light and Shade among the illustrators of D'Annunzio in the Symbolist graphic scene in Italy
Lucia Mannini, Italy
Aspects of Symbolist interiors: Figures, Lights and Colors in Early 20th -century Italian Stained Glass
Cassandra Sciortino, USA
The Revival of Dante and Beatrice and the Taste for Florence in 19th Britain
Deborah Cibelli, USA
The Duality of Light in Rossetti's Ekphrastic Poems on Painting |
| 6:45-7:45 pm |
DINNER |
| 8:00-9:15 pm |
Keynote speaker I
Dominique Jarrassé, Professor of Art History
University of Bordeaux and Ecole du Louvre, France
Symbolist Sculpture Between Luminous Fluidity and Expressionist Shadows
(La sculpture symboliste entre fluidité lumineuse et ombres expressionnistes) |
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Breakfast in the Dining Room 7:30 - 9:00 am
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| 9:00-11:00 am |
Session 3
Moderator: Deborah Cibelli, USA
Britten LaRue, USA
The Androgyne, the Transvestite and the Faun, or How Aubrey Beardsley Created Hybrids out of Black and White
Rosina Neginsky, USA
Salome: Between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley
Larry Shiner, USA
Is there a Symbolist Architecture? Mackintosh and Gaudi
Kurt Rahmlow, USA
"The admiration one feels for something strange and uncanny": Edward Steichen, Continental Symbolism, and the 1905 London Photographic Salon |
| 11:00 - 11:15 am |
BREAK
(Food and refreshments in the Solarium) |
| 11:15 am - 12:45 pm |
Session 4
Moderator: Carl Niekerk, USA
Olia Skonechnaya, Russia
F. Sologub: the Disease of Power as Poetics
Walter Geerts, Belgium
Symbolist Fiction: Enchanted, Disenchanted. On André Gide's début.
George Gasyna, USA
Conrad's Nostromo, concentrating on the figures and symbologies of nation/father/the people/the other |
| 12:50-1:50 pm |
LUNCH |
| 2:00-3:30 pm |
Session 5
Moderator: George Gasyna, USA
Huseyin Altindis, USA/Turkey
Visual Patterns of Light and Dark in Faulkner's "The Light in August"
Ethan Lewis, USA
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Object that is Desire
Nadja Berkovich, USA
An-sky's The Dybbuk: Demonic Possession, Desire, and Death |
| 3:30- 3:45 pm |
BREAK
(Food and refreshments in the Solarium) |
| 3:45-4:15 pm |
Session 6
Moderator: Ethan Lewis, USA
Rachel Chalmers, USA
Nietzsche and Soloviev: Illuminating the Path to Overman
François Lachance-Provençal, Canada
Nietzsche's Aesthetics Against the Notion of "l'art pour l'art"
(Le coassement virtuose des grenouilles transies: L'esthétique intempestive de Nietzsche contre l'art pour l'art)
Brent Judd, USA
Light and Darkness in Kafka's "Hunger Artist" and Dostoyevsky's White Nights |
| 6:00-7:00 pm |
DINNER |
| 7:15-8:30 pm |
Keynote speaker II
Liana De Girolami Cheney, Professor of Art History,
Chair of the Department of Cultural Studies,
University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Edward Burne-Jones' The Sirens: Magical Whispers |
Friday, April 27, 2012
Breakfast in the Dining Room 7:30 - 9:00 am
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| 9:00-10:30 am |
Session 7
Moderator: Rosina Neginsky, USA
Natalia Gamalova, France
Coloured Lighting in the Poetry of Annenkij
Nicoletta Misler, Italy
The Symbolist Legacy of Modern Dance in Early Soviet Culture:
Obscurantism or Illumination?
Sue Prideaux, England
Strindberg and Symbolism |
| 10:30 - 10:45 am |
BREAK
(Food and refreshments in the Solarium) |
| 10:45 am -12:45pm |
Session 8
Moderator: Liana De Girolami Cheney, USA
Sarah Lippert, USA
Shadows of the Past: The Phantom of the Golden Age in the Work of Gustave Moreau
Michelle Facos, USA
Defining Nordic Symbolist Landscape Painting
Thor J. Mednick, USA
The Psyco-graphic Picture in Symbolist Art
Andrew Marvick, USA
Substantial formal links between certain key works of the Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff and the early and middle production of the seminal non-objective artist Piet Mondrian
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| 12:45-1:45 pm |
LUNCH |
| 1:50- 5:10 pm |
Trip to the U of Il campus, the library and museums |
| 5:30 -7:00 pm |
Session 9
Moderator: John Frayne, USA
Carl Niekerk, USA
Symbolism in Mahler's Second Symphony
Alexandra Kieffer, USA
Behind the Veil: Revealing the Exotic Body in Early Twentieth-Century French Music
Jean-Pierre Armengaud, France
Debussy: The symbolist touch in the playing of piano music |
| 7:15-8:15 pm |
DINNER |
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Breakfast in the Dining Room 7:30 - 9:00 am
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| 9:00-10:45 am |
Session 10
Moderator: Michelle Facos, USA
Leslie Curtis, USA
Odilon Redon: The Mystic Knight and the Severed Head
Joelle Joffe, France
Blacks Odilon Redon, Shadow or Light?
Jonathan Perkins, USA
Fantastic Nature: Associations between Paul Klee and Odilon Redon
Michael Croteau, USA
The Dream, the Wheel and the Crucible of Symbolism |
| 10:45- 11:00 am |
BREAK
(Food and refreshments in the Solarium) |
| 11:00 am - 1:00 pm |
Session 11
Moderator: Jonathan Perkins, USA
Slavkin Mary, USA
Dissident Aesthetics, Dissident Politics:Nationalist, Conservative, and Heterodox Currents in the Nabis
Allison Morehead, Canada
Maurice Denis and Symbolism in 1891
Maria Aivalioti, Greece/France
The fear of the darkness, the quest of the light: the representation of religious themes in the work of European symbolist painters
Serena Keshavjee, Canada
Emile Gallé and Aestheticization of the Scientific Process |
| 1:00-2:00 pm |
LUNCH |
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