Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory
Conference
to take place at the
Woodcliff Lake Hilton
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
October 27-29, 2006
patronized by the WAPACC Organization
Conference Registration- Early Registration deadline: April 30, 2006.
Abstracts and Proceedings, Advanced Sales
Hotel and Transportation Information
Planned Activities: Lunch Buffet at the hotel on Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 12:15PM.
Audio-Visual Equipment: There will be two slide projectors and two screens in each meeting room. We are unable provide digital equipment at this time. Participants may bring their own portable digital projectors. However, we will only be responsible for the equipment we furnish. We will not be providing any technical support, cables, extension cords or any other materials related to digital projection. Participants who choose to bring their own digital projectors should consider time constraints and avoid infringing on the time allotted to other presenters when setting up their equipment.
Sessions:
Friday, October 27, 2006 - 8:00 - 10:00 AM
A. Representations of Death in Ancient and Medieval Art
Chair: Marilyn Dunn, Loyola University, Chicago
Speakers:
Lisa R. Brody, Queens College, "Children of the Dark Night": Twins on Classical Greek Gravestones.
Alison C. Poe, Rutgers University, Banqueting and Banquet Scenes in the Early Christian Catacombs: A Reconsideration.
Eileen McKiernan González, Berea College, Women and the Commemoration of the Dead in Twelfth Century Spain.
Charlotte A. Stanford, Brigham Young University, Bodies and Images: Two Fourteenth-Century Funerary Portraits in the Obituary of Notre-Dame, Paris.
B. Constructions/Destructions in Contemporary Art, Architecture, and Film
Chair: Jessica Dallow, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Speakers:
Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Catholic University of America, On Vivian Sobchack's "Documentary Consciousness": Film's Special Intimacy with Death Revisited.
Mary O' Neill, Loughborough University, Speaking to the Dead.
Helge Meyer, Performance Art Research, Images of Pain and Dying: Performance Art and Death.
Friday, October 27, 2006 - 10:15 - 12:15 PM
A. The Seventh Act of Mercy
Chair: Phillip Earenfight, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College
Speakers:
Maja Dujakovic, The University of British Columbia, Walking the Cemetery: Le Cimetičre des Saints-Innocents and Medieval Paris.
Philip Earenfight, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Tobit and the Iconography of Burying the Dead.
Lisa A. Festa, Georgian Court University, The Art of Jewish Burial Societies and Memorials to Jewish Dead.
William B. Sieger, Northeastern Illinois University, Anti-Clerics and Commemoration at Bohemian National Cemetery of Chicago.
B. Mourning and Memorialization in Contemporary American Culture
Chairs: Erika Doss, University of Colorado
Lesley A. Sharp, Barnard College
Speakers:
Erika Doss, University of Colorado, Mourning our National Shame: Slavery and Lynching Memorials in America
Lisa J. Nicoletti, Centenary College of Louisiana, Lost in America: Mourning the Missing with Anne Frank.
Lesley A. Sharp, Barnard College, Donor Memorials and Metaphors: Reclaiming the Dead in the Organ Transplant Arena.
Katherine Walker, College of William and Mary, Interrupted Mourning: Memorializing Gabriel.
Friday, October 27, 2006 - 1:30 - 3:30 PM
A. Heroic Death: Models and Counter-Models
Chair: Brigitte Buettner, Smith College
Speakers:
Renzo Baldasso, Columbia University, Killing and Dying in Rubens' Death of Decius Mus.
Carmen L. McCann, Pennsylvania State University, Eugčne Delacroix's Heroic Figures and the Status Viatoris.
Brian Edward Hack, The Graduate Center, CUNY, The Souls of Sons and Lovers: George Grey Barnard's "Monument to Democracy" and the Other Casualties of War.
B. Photographs of a Being Before: Now- Part I
Chair: William Ganis, Wells College
Speakers:
Katharina Sykora, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschschweig, Among the Living Dead: Jean Cocteau's Self-Portraits of the Artist as Dead Man.
Rehema Barber, The Amistad Center for Arts and Culture at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Deconstructed Memory: Death and Rebirth in Contemporary Photography.
Shirley Sharon-Zisser, Tel Aviv University, The Topological Mortography of the Palimpsest: Li Shir's Collages of the Unrepresentable.
Linda M. Steer, Binghamton University, From Document to Memento: Atget, Surrealism and the Manipulation of Memory.
Friday, October 27, 2006 - 3:45 - 5:45 PM
A. Memory be Damned: The Obliteration of Monuments in Rome from Antiquity to the Modern Era
Chairs: Margaret Woodhull, University of Colorado, Denver
Lauren Hackworth Petersen, University of Delaware
Speakers:
Kathryn McDonnell, Cornell University, Till Remarriage Do Us Part: The Tomb of Verria Zosime at Isola Sacra.
Candace Weddle, University of Southern California, Damnatio, Indignatio and the Deaths of the Persecuting Emperors: Influences on Early Christian Writers.
Valentina Follo, University of Pennsylvania, Sixtus V and the Baths of Diocletian.
Ann Thomas Wilkins, Duquesne University, Forgotten, Resurrected, Damned, and Renewed: Augustan Monuments and their Afterlife in the Fascist and Post Fascist World.
Discussant: Penelope Davies, University of Texas.
B. Artists Speaking about Death in Their Art
Chair: Cheryl Kramer, Ithaca College
Speakers:
Maria G. Pisano, Memory Press, How Book Artists Respond to Death and Memory in their Work.
Karen Schiff, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tracings and Rubbings as Manifestations of Mourning.
Tessa Windt, Chatham College, Let Fall.
Elizabeth Burch, Global Experimentation Group, POX: An Installation Series Inspired by The Imaginary Western History of Biological Warfare from the Middle East.
Deale A. Hutton, SUNY Oswego, Swimming with Fishes.
Friday, October 27, 2006 - 6:00 - 8:00 PM
A. Macabre Relics: Medieval, Renaissance, Modern
Chair: Elina Gertsman, Southern Illinois University
Speakers:
Christine Kralik, University of Toronto, The Macabre Image as Devotional Aid: An Examination of The Illumination of the Three Living and The Three Dead in the Berlin Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian I.
Allie Terry, Bowling Green State University, The Craft of Torture: Bronze Sculptures and Public Punishment in Fifteenth Century Italy.
Emily Godbey, Iowa State University, Nineteenth-Century Technology and the Macabre.
Discussant: Elina Gertsman, Southern Illinois University.
B. Dying in the Midst of Laboring and other Representations in Art Concerning the Death of the Industrial Worker
Chair: Francine Tyler, New York University and Long Island University
Speakers:
Francine Tyler, New York University and Long Island University, Dying in the Midst of Laboring: A Gravestone to a Mill Girl.
Ellen Wiley Todd, George Mason University, Remembering the Unknowns: New York's Monument to the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
Gail Levin, Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, The Performer as Worker: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Metaphoric Images of Death and Peril.
Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 8:00 - 10:00 AM
A. Funeral Symbolism on Christian Tombstones and Monuments, Part I
Chair: Peter M. Daly, McGill University
Speakers:
Peter M. Daly, McGill University, Christian Cemeteries: An Historical Overview of Funeral Symbolism on Christian Tombstones and Monuments. Part I.
Robert Marcoux, Université Laval and Université de Bourgogne, Seeing Dead People: The Gisant as Imago of the Deceased in the Middle Ages.
Rosa J. H. Berland, Guggenheim Museum, Intersections of Mysticism and Classicism: The Tomb of Louis de Brézé, Rouen, France.
Richard Dimler, Fordham University, Castra Doloris.
B. Representations of Death in Nineteenth Century Art, Open Session
Chairs: Lauren Keach Lessing, Nelson-Atkins Museum
Terri Sabatos, US Military Academy, West Point
Speakers:
Caterina Pierre, Kingsborough Community College, To Bid Thee Farewell: Commemorative Portraits Depicting Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875).
Matthew Simms, California State University, The Sense of Death: Rodin's Les Bourgeois de Calais.
Scott Budzynski, University of Applied Sciences, Stendal-Magdeburg, Caspar David Friedrich's Melancholy Self-Representations.
Lauren Cordes, Indiana University, Ferdinand Hodler and Edvard Munch: Two Artists in Pursuit of Death.
Janet S. Rauscher, Indiana University, Oh Death, Where is Thy Sting? Hugo Simberg and Finnish Folklore.
Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 10:15 - 12:15 PM
A. Funeral Symbolism on Christian Tombstones and Monuments, Part II
Chair: Peter M. Daly, McGill University
Speakers:
Peter M. Daly, McGill University, Christian Cemeteries: An Historical Overview of Funeral Symbolism on Christian Tombstones and Monuments. Part II.
Elisabeth Roark, Chatham College, Embodying Immortality: The Tasks and Types of Angel Monuments in the American "Rural" Cemetery, 1850-1900.
Kathy T. Hettinga, Messiah College, Grave Images: A Fragile Folk Art in the Mountain Desert of the San Luis Valley.
Marianne Berger Woods, University of Texas in Odessa, Stop, See, and Think of Me: Roadside Memorials.
B. The Culture of Death and Mourning in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chairs: Lauren Keach Lessing, Nelson-Atkins Museum
Terri Sabatos, US Military Academy, West Point
Speakers:
Elise Ciregna, University of Delaware, Marble Lambs, Sleeping Cherubs and Empty Cradles: Children's Memorials in Victorian America and England.
Luiz Vailati, University of Sao Paulo, With Souls Enlarged to Angel's Size: Child Death in Brazil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Maura Coughlin, Brown University, The Widows' Walk: Representing Death and Mourning on the Brittany Coast.
Anne Sue Hirshorn, Independent Scholar, Diary of a Death in the Family: Sarah Miriam Peale's Portrait of Mary Leypold Griffith (1838-1841).
Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 1:30 - 3:30 PM
A. Life after Death: Celebrating the Deceased in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1300-1600
Chair: Victor Coonin, Rhodes College
Speakers:
Janice Liedl, Laurentian University, Above the Rest of the Ladies: Celebrating the Life of Jane Seymour.
Jasmin W. Cyril, Independent Scholar, Memoria Sancta: Battista Sforza's Apotheosis at the Ducal Palace of Urbino.
Hanne Kolind Poulsen, University of Copenhagen, Queen Dorothea of Denmark Celebrating her Dead Husband - and Herself.
Angi Elsea Bourgeois, Mississippi State University, Celebration through Imitation? The Exemplary Life of Francesca Bussa de' Ponziani.
Maria DePrano, Washington State University, Mourning the Deceased Wife: An Analysis of Two Paintings Commissioned in Honor of a Fifteenth Century Florentine Woman.
B. Death and Mourning in American Art - Open Session
Chair: Gregory Gilbert, Knox College
Speakers:
Ann Thomas Wilkins, Duquesne University, and David G. Wilkins, University of Pittsburgh, Constructing Memory: Evidence from New Hampshire Public Libraries.
Joseph Manca, Rice University, Moral and Moralizing Aspects of George Washington's Death and Funeral.
Kate Diggle, The George Washington University, Dignified Death: Building The Nation's Capital and The Identity of a Great Statesman.
Elizabeth Broman, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Egyptian Revival Funerary Art in Green-Wood Cemetery.
Debra Levine, New York University, Becoming Traffic: The Ghost Bike as a Recollection Image.
Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 3:45 - 5:45 PM
A. Images of Loss, Commemoration, and Protection in Early Modern Europe
Chair: Sheryl Reiss, University of California, Riverside
Speakers:
Scott B. Montgomery, University of Denver, Fashioning the Visage of Sainthood: The Reliquary Bust of Beata Umiliana dei Cerchi and The Holy Portrait in Late Medieval Florence.
Kristin A. Arioli, College of Charleston, Memorialization in the Making: Pope Julius II, The Bologna Campaigns, and the Trajanic Fresco Cycle at The Palazzo dell' Episcopio, Ostia.
Jill E. Blondin, University of Texas at Tyler, Sixtus IV as Patron (Saint): The Tomb of the Pope's Parents in Savona.
Efrat El-Hanany, Indiana University, Unspeakable Infanticide and Divine Intervention in the Italian Renaissance: The Case of the Madonna del Soccorso Typology.
W. Scott Howard, University of Denver, Et in Arcadia Ego: A Poetics of Loss from Poussin to the Postmoderns.
B. Capturing the Cadaver: Photographs of the Dead
Chair: Matthew E. Teti, Northwestern University
Speakers:
Shannon Masterson, The Cleveland Museum of Art, A Curious Practice: 19th-Century Images of Medical Students and their Cadavers.
Barbara Lewis, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Decorated Death: The Lynch Victim as Object of Public Display.
Randal van Schepen, Roger Williams University, The Quick and the Dead: Jeffrey Silverthorne's Morgue Photographs.
Andrea Fitzpatrick, Ontario College of Art and Design, The (De)Formation of Identity in Andres Serrano's The Morgue.
Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 6:00 - 8:00 PM
A. Casualties of War
Chair: Holly Crawford, ArtCircles, New York
Speakers:
James Walker, Ferris State University, Beyond Crucifixion: Death in the Painting of the Soldier-Artist Otto Dix.
Karen McWilliams, University of Oklahoma, Memorial to the Fallen: Kaethe Kollwitz's Sculpted Response to World War I.
Sue Taylor, Portland State University, Eva Hesse, Quietly Mourning.
Deborah Frizzell, William Paterson University, Nancy Spero's Wall Paintings: Embodying Anti-Heroic Death and Martyrdom.
B. Photographs of a Being Before: Now- Part II
Chair: William Ganis, Wells College
Speakers:
Rebecca Scott Bray, The University of Sydney, Paper Graveyards: Police Archives and Aesthetics.
William Ganis, Wells College, The Black and White Death: Andy Warhol's Terminal Social Disease.
Iris Balija, University of Essex, Christian Boltanski: Between the Two Deaths.
Monica McTighe, Tufts University, The Family Slide Show as Critical History in the Work of Renée Green.
Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 8:00 - 10:00 AM
A. Death, The Risen Christ, and the Virgin in Art: History and Iconography
Chair: Allison Lee Palmer, University of Oklahoma
Speakers:
Peter Muir, Open University, An Intimate and Slender Response.
Allison Lee Palmer, University of Oklahoma, The Philbrook Risen Christ and the Art of the Roman Baroque Tabernacle.
Elissa L. Anderson, The University of Kansas, The Cartesian Body: Immateriality in Rembrandt's The Death of the Virgin.
Susan D. Greenberg, Yale University Art Gallery, Resurrection at the First Museum of Modern Art.
B. Commemorating Victims and Heroes: Terrorism and War Memorials
Chair: Erika Doss, University of Colorado
Paul Williams, New York University, Religion, Community, and Memory in Recent US Terrorism Memorials.
Margaret Kuntz, Drew University, America's Need to Remember: The Minimalist Aesthetic.
Kim Theriault, Dominican University, Unhealthy Obsession? The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a Catalyst for Witnessed Mourning.
Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 10:15 - 12:15 PM
A. Strategies of Commemoration: Women as Patrons and Subjects of Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Funerary Memorials
Chair: Todd L. Larkin, Montana State University, Bozeman
Speakers:
Todd Larkin, Montana State University, Bozeman, Elisabeth Vigeé Le Brun's Posthumous Portraits of Marie-Antoinette, 1800-1817.
Jennifer Germann, Independent Scholar, Death Becomes Her: Mourning and Marie Leszczinska.
Christina Lindeman, University of Arizona, "... and Night breaks in without the promise of a new Day": Memorial to Anna Amalia, Duchess of Sachen-Weimar-Eisenach.
B. Facing the Beyond: Self-Fashioning in the Face of Death
Chair: Zbynek Smetana, Murray State University
Speakers:
Nicole Hegener, Bibliotheca Hertziana, "Avendo consumato tutta mia vita i' marmi..." Baccio Bandinelli and Death.
Aileen June Wang, Rutgers University, Michelangelo's Transformation in the Last Judgment.
Veronica White, Columbia University, Challenging Fate: Stefano della Bella's Depiction of Death and the Baroque Capriccio.
Joan Stack, The University of Missouri-Columbia, The Lost Tomb of Giorgio Vasari: The Self-Commemoration of a Great Commemorator.