Unfolding the Baroque: Extensions of a Concept

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Friday, April 17
Baroque Space
8:45-9:15 Catherine Soussloff, UCSC: Opening & Introduction
9:15-9:45 Jon Snyder, UC Santa Barbara: The Culture of Defiguration
9:45-10:15 Margaretha Rossholm-Largerlof, U of Stockholm: Visual Space & Reality Dimensions in Baroque Art
10:15-10:45 Dana Arnold, U of Southampton: If the term baroque did not exist would it be necessary to invent it? (with apologies to Voltaire...)
10:45-11:30 Q & A

11:30-12:30 Lunch (Provided only for conference speakers)

Post-Colonial Baroque
12:30-12:45 Deanna Shemek, UCSC: Introduction
12:45-1:15 Todd Olson, UC Berkeley: The Shape of Time & the Fear of Staggering
1:15-1:30 Gerwin Gallob, UCSC: Echoes from the Future: Edouard Glissant & the Infinite Work of the Baroque
1:30-2:00 Robert Harbison, London Metropolitan U: Widening the Meaning of 'Baroque'
2:00-2:30 Q & A
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break

Baroque Forms
3:00-3:10 Andrew Wegley, Google: Introduction
3:10-3:40 Maria Evangelatou, UCSC: Culture & Politics in the Great Altar of Pergamon: The Power of Hellenistic Baroque
3:40-4:10 Brandin Baron-Nusbaum, UCSC: Collateral Damage: Louis XIV, Professionalism & Privilège
4:10-4:30 Q & A
5:00 Nina Treadwell, UCSC: Introductory Remarks, Vocalizing the Baroque

Saturday, April 18

Baroque-ness
9:30-9:45 Karen Bassi, UCSC: Introduction
9:45-10:15 Tyrus Miller, UCSC: 'The Approach-of-the-End-of-the-World Feeling': Allegory & Eschatology in the Operas of Robert Ashley
10:15-10:30 Joseph P. Cermatori, Yale: Baroque Theory, Baroque Theatricalities
10:30-11:00 Alena Smieskova, U of Constantine the Philosopher / UCSC VPS Fulbright Fellow: The Baroque Space in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.
11:00-11:15 Q & A
11:15-11:45 Coffee Break

Bios and Baroque
11:45-12:00 Meredith Hoy, UC Berkeley: An Aura of Excess: Zaha Hadid & the Baroque Genetics of Contemporary Architecture
12:00-12:15 David Marno, Stanford: Baroque Sarcasm
12:15-12:45 Mark Franko, UCSC/Bard College: Language Bodies in Louis Marin & Michel Foucault
12:45-1:30 Q & A

Please direct questions to Catherine Soussloff or Trevor Sangrey at: VPSucsc@gmail.com