Friday, April 9th

9:30 am
Introduction
Martin Jay

10 am
"What History, Whose History, History to what Purpose: History in Visual Studies and Art History"
Ernst van Alphen

11 am
"The Trouble With Painting"
Catherine Soussloff

12:30-2 pm
Lunch

2 pm
"Performing Show and Tell: On the Disciplinary Problems of a Transmedia Practice"
Shannon Jackson

3 pm
"Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eye Witness Account"
Georgina Kleege

4 pm
"Envisioning Culture, or What is the Object of Visual Studies?"
Mieke Bal



Saturday, April 10th

10 am
"Visual Studies, or the Ossification of Thought"
Marquard Smith

11 am
"Visuality and Pictoriality: The Methodological Circle of Iconology"
Whitney Davis

12:30-2 pm
Lunch

2 pm
"Archival (not Visual) Culture"
Hal Foster

3 pm
"There Are No Visual Media: That Is Why We Need Visual Culture"
W.J.T. Mitchell

4 pm
Response to the Conference
Kaja Silverman