Below you will find the current conference schedule. Over the next few weeks, we will be regularly updating this section as new info becomes available. Also be on the lookout for downloadable versions of the conference presentations and other announcements. You can also view a downloadable poster version of the conference schedule on our Downloads Page.

Friday, March 26th           11:00-11:30am – Welcome: Alyssa Kamin                                     Opening Remarks: Ed Casey 11:30-1:30 - Panel One – Collective (Dis-)Organization       “Collective as Form, Playground as Medium”                     Tim Stott, National College of Art and Design, Visual Culture       “Professor Challenger’s Patchwork Urbanism”                     Bryan Norwood, Boston University; Philosophy       “Congeries of Time/Two Silences of Heaven and Earth”                     Sung Won Yun, School of the Museum of Fine Arts       “Teaching to Digress: Artists’ Models for Collectivity and Reverse Pedagogy”                     Mark Clintberg, Concordia University; Art History               Faculty Moderator: Rita Nolan;  Student Respondents: Carlie Anglemire, Nolan Geiger   1:30-2:15 – Break 2:15-4:15 - Panel Two – Surveillance, Sensation, and the Social       “Collective Conviction: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Inner Public”                     Kathleen MacQueen, Stony Brook University; Art History       “William James, Michel Foucault, and Aliens?”                     Katie Brennan, Stony Brook University; Philosophy       “Collecting the Frayed Edges: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Knot of Being-With”                     Adam Knowles, New School for Social Research; Philosophy               Faculty Moderator: Anne O’Byrne;  Student Respondent: Dave Smucker   4:15-4:30 - Break 4:30-6:30 – Keynote Address, “NO GHOST, JUST A SHELL”       Dr. Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research   6:30-8:00 – Reception       Featuring music by Aaron Finbloom, Stony Brook University, Philosophy       March 27th 11:00-1:00 - Panel Three – Recognizing and Reconceiving the Collective       “The Man Full of Content: Agamben’s Happy Consciousness”                     Raphael Ng, University of Toronto, Philosophy       “Street Art as Collective Curation”                     Connell Vaughan, UCD Dublin; Philosophy       “Collective Interpretation and Re-Contextualization: Meaning's Permanent Vacation”         Katherine Graham, Stony Brook University, Philosophy; Tim Graham, School of the Art Institute of Chicago       “Amending Museums’ Biases Against Working Collectively and Exhibiting Collectives”                     Sue Spaid, Temple University; Philosophy               Faculty Moderator: James DiGiovanna;  Student Respondent: Gillian Sneed   1:00-1:45 - Break 1:45-3:30 - Panel Four – “Recollective Generations       “Goodnight Analog”                     Kristine Granger, Stony Brook University; MFA       “Cut from the Same Cloth”                     Alisha McCurdy, Stony Brook University; MFA       “The Gesture of Tradition”                     Toni Pepe Dan, Boston University; Interdisciplinary Studies               Faculty Moderator: Victoria Hesford;  Student Respondent: Laine Nooney           3:30-3:45 – Break   3:45-5:30 - Panel Five – Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Political “Ethics and Aesthetics at the Intersection: Doris Salcedo’s Art and the Problems with Art Theory”                     Carolina Drake, UNC-Charlotte; Philosophy       “The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Collectivity, Minority, and Reterritorialization”                     Bulent Eken, Duke University; Literature       “An Exploration of the Concept ‘Multitude’ as the Ground for Political Art”                     Kim Charnley, University of Plymouth; Philosophy               Faculty Moderator: Andrew Uroskie; Student Respondent: Val MacKinnon     5:30-5:45 – Break   5:45-6:45 – Closing Remarks: Seth Kim-Cohen, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts   6:45-8:30 – Reception