University of California Santa Cruz Visual and Performance Studies Presents: Unfolding the Baroque: Extensions of a Concept Details | Speakers | Schedule | Performance | Directions & Parking | VPS Dana Arnold, University of Southampton If the term baroque did not exist would it be necessary to invent it? (with apologies to Voltaire...) Brandin Baron-Nusbaum, UC Santa Cruz Collateral Damage: Louis XIV, Professionalism and Privilege Joseph P. Cermatori, Yale Baroque Theory, Baroque Theatricalities Maria Evangelatou, UC Santa Cruz Culture and Politics in the Great Altar of Pergamon: The Power of Hellenistic Baroque Mark Franko, UC Santa Cruz/Bard College Language Bodies in Louis Marin and Michel Foucault Gerwin Gallob, UC Santa Cruz Echoes from the Future: Edouard Glissant and the Infinite Work of the Baroque Robert Harbison, London Metropolitan University Widening the Meaning of 'Baroque' Meredith Hoy, UC Berkeley An Aura of Excess: Zaha Hadid and the Baroque Genetics of Contemporary Architecture David Marno, Stanford University Baroque Sarcasm Tyrus Miller, UC Santa Cruz 'The Approach-of-the-End-of-the-World Feeling': Allegory and Eschatology in the Operas of Robert Ashley Todd Olson, UC Berkeley The Shape of Time and the Fear of Staggering Margaretha Rossholm-Largerlof, University of Stockholm The Galerie des Glaces at Versailles: Spaces within an Expanding Space Alena Smieskova, University of Constantine the Philosopher/ VPS Fulbright Fellow The Baroque Space in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy Jon R. Snyder, UC Santa Barbara The Culture of Defiguration Catherine Soussloff, UC Santa Cruz Introductory Remarks Written Contribution: Anna Munster, University of New South Wales Bios and Baroque: Life in the Folds of 17th Century Artifice and Contemporary Biotechnical Art Please direct questions to Catherine Soussloff or Trevor Sangrey at: VPSucsc@gmail.com