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DESCRIPTION:The past two decades have been marked by a renewed concern with
  the agency\, presence\, and ontological status of crafted things\, witnes
 sed in a shift of interest across several fields from questions of iconogr
 aphy and meaning to questions of affect and efficacy. These developments c
 all into question some of the binary oppositions that are foundational to 
 the epistemologies and ontologies of Enlightenment (and post-Enlightenment
 ) thought: animate-inanimate\, subject-object\, material-meaning\, and so 
 forth. They raise significant questions about the nature and operation of 
 things in the world\, their materiality\, their ability to act or inspire 
 action\, and their relation to speech\, texts\, and words. Acknowledging t
 he need for an interdisciplinary approach to the profound questions raised
  by these developments\, the conference aims to examine the historical ant
 ecedents for these 'new' ways of thinking about the material world\, to co
 nsider their implications\, and to imagine the ways in which they might he
 lp us develop novel approaches to images\, things\, and words. September 2
 7\, 1:30–6 pmBard Graduate Center38 West 86th Street\, Lecture HallPeter N
 . MillerBard Graduate CenterWelcomeJaś ElsnerCorpus Christi College\, Univ
 ersity of OxfordFinbarr B. FloodInstitute of Fine Arts and College of Arts
  and Sciences\, New York UniversityIttai WeinrybBard Graduate CenterIntrod
 uctionHugh RafflesThe New SchoolWriting StonesDavid FrankfurterBoston Univ
 ersityFemale Figurines in Late Antique Egypt – Problems and Revelations in
  Mimesis and EfficacyCaroline van EckLeiden UniversityRepresentation\, Ani
 mation\, and the Excessive ObjectRichard NeerUniversity of ChicagoNot Puzz
 ling Enough: Gell\, Art History and the Aesthetics of DisavowalZainab Bahr
 aniColumbia UniversityResponseSeptember 28\, 9 am–6 pmInstitute of Fine Ar
 ts\, New York University
1 East 78th Street\, Lecture HallPatricia RubinIn
 stitute of Fine Arts\, New York UniversityWelcomeBrigitte Bedos-RezakNew Y
 ork UniversityMedia Regimes: Imprinted Matter and the Horizon of Agency (W
 estern Europe\, Twelfth-Fourteenth Century)Peter GeimerFreie Universität\,
  BerlinRelics/Stuff: On Composing and Decomposing AuraMilette GaifmanYale 
 UniversityThe Life of Greek Painted JugsGlenn PeersUniversity of Texas\, A
 ustinRelation and Dividuation in ByzantiumBeate FrickeUniversity of Califo
 rnia\, BerkeleyCrafts of Blood and Shapes of LifeFrank FehrenbachHarvard U
 niversityInfra ‘l vedi e non vedi. Enlivenment in Italian Renaissance ArtP
 amela SmithColumbia UniversityHow to Study the Nature of Things: Material 
 Complexes of the Early Modern WorldJane BennettJohns Hopkins UniversityPos
 ture and Sympathy in Leaves of GrassGerhard WolfKunsthistorisches Institut
 \, FlorenceResponseSeptember 29\, 9:30 am–1:15 pmInstitute of Fine Arts\, 
 New York University1 East 78th Street\, Lecture HallSpyros PapapetrosPrinc
 eton UniversityAnimist (Re)turns: Shifts in Approaches to Objects in Turn-
 of-the-Century Histories of ArtCaroline Walker BynumInstitute for Advanced
  Study\, PrincetonThe Paradox of Aniconic/Iconic Materiality in the Middle
  AgesHorst BredekampHumboldt Universität\, BerlinThe Hand Axe and the Anth
 ropology of Picture ActChristopher WoodYale UniversityClosing RemarksPrese
 nted by the Bard Graduate Center and the Institute of Fine Arts-NYU
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Symposium—Beyond Representation
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