Making Meaning: Technologies of Transformative Production and Creative Consumption I: Diachronic Redefinition
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Eric Ramirez-Weaver, Christopher Lakey
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Virginia, Johns Hopkins Univ./Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Presider Name
Christopher Lakey
Paper Title 1
What to Do with Medieval Ephemera?
Presenter 1 Name
Sonja Drimmer
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst
Paper Title 2
Byzantium after Duchamp: Notes on a Certain History of Art and Its Medium
Presenter 2 Name
Roland Betancourt
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Yale Univ.
Paper Title 3
Turning an Axe on Its Head
Presenter 3 Name
Annie Montgomery Labatt
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Texas-San Antonio
Start Date
9-5-2014 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 2345
Description
In this session, discrete strategies of creative intervention emphasize the diachronic historical transformations of sites, objects, rhetoric, ideas, and the reproductive possibilities of countervailing, non-hegemonic discourses during the medieval period. Scholars such as Carolyn Dinshaw have underscored the ways that meaning is created and renewed across time through the meaningful interaction of recurring encounters with the past in an evanescent present. Taking seriously the idea that forgotten and historically recorded encounters across time establish an interlocking nexus of meanings through which individual narratives or artworks need to be (re)interpreted by modern cultural historians, this session seeks papers that address standard and atypical monuments evoking scorn or derision, propaganda, historicity, critique, ephemera, dissent, reaction, censure, or creative reinterpretation. Papers are warmly invited which grapple with the methodological impact of medieval texts and artworks, documenting creative moments of social and spiritual transformation, syncretistic exchange, and public or political challenge.
Eric Ramirez-Weaver
Making Meaning: Technologies of Transformative Production and Creative Consumption I: Diachronic Redefinition
Schneider 2345
In this session, discrete strategies of creative intervention emphasize the diachronic historical transformations of sites, objects, rhetoric, ideas, and the reproductive possibilities of countervailing, non-hegemonic discourses during the medieval period. Scholars such as Carolyn Dinshaw have underscored the ways that meaning is created and renewed across time through the meaningful interaction of recurring encounters with the past in an evanescent present. Taking seriously the idea that forgotten and historically recorded encounters across time establish an interlocking nexus of meanings through which individual narratives or artworks need to be (re)interpreted by modern cultural historians, this session seeks papers that address standard and atypical monuments evoking scorn or derision, propaganda, historicity, critique, ephemera, dissent, reaction, censure, or creative reinterpretation. Papers are warmly invited which grapple with the methodological impact of medieval texts and artworks, documenting creative moments of social and spiritual transformation, syncretistic exchange, and public or political challenge.
Eric Ramirez-Weaver