The Sixth Annual Meeting of the
Narrative and Image
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California
October 2-4, 2014
Thursday, October 2 at Loyola Marymount University
8:30-10:00
Session A (VDA 190)
Moderator: Arun Iyer (Seattle University)
Benjamin Young (University of South Florida): “Image or Play: Attention, Improvisation and the Thread of Narrative”
Aloisa Moser (University of California—Berkeley): “Narrative, not Image: On Performativity and Orality”
Session B (VDA 241)
Moderator: Leonie Bradbury (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts)
Kate Farrington (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts): “Letters in the Landscape: Word and Image and Aesthetics of Place in ‘Dear Markus (2011),’ a contemporary art project by Alfredo Jaar in the Turku Archipelago of Finland”
Kathryn A. McFadden (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts): “Storge: Homely and Heroic Love in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right”
10:10-11:40
Session A (VDA 190)
Moderator: Will Britt (Boston College)
Elizabeth Sikes (Seattle University): “The Stillness WanderingWithin: Notes on the Caesura of the Cinematic Image”
Janae Sholtz (Alvernia University) “Deleuze’s Transmutation of the Free Indirect”
Session B (VDA 241)
Moderator: Kate Farrington (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts)
Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky): “Pornography and the Ambivalence of Modernity: A Heideggerian Critique”
Michael Eng (John Carroll University): “Nihilism or Sacrifice: Architecture and the Image of Thought”
Session C (Malone 306)
Moderator: Sam Talcott (University of the Sciences)
Geoff Ashton (University of Colorado—Colorado Springs): “‘The Self is the Actor’ in Kashmir Śaivism: From Narrative Ontology to a Soteriology of Theatrical Role-Play”
Brendan Moran (University of Calgary): “Parable, Reason, and the Cloudy Spot: Benjamin’s Kafkan Theatre”
11:40-12:40 Lunch. Various options available on campus.
12:50-2:20
Session A (VDA 190)
Moderator: Kathryn A. McFadden, (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts)
Dorothea Olkowski (University of Colorado—Colorado Springs): “She’s a Killer”: The Image of the Women of Zero Dark Thirty
Dana Belu (California State University, Dominguez Hills): “Woody on Women: Failed Freedom in the Film Blue Jasmine”
Session B (VDA 241)
Moderator: Erin Stackle (Loyola Marymount University)
Andrew Whitehead (Kennesaw State University): “Images of Me: Imagination and Self-Integration”
Josh Hayes (Alvernia University): “Words in Painting: Cy Twombly’s Fifty Days at Iliam and the Deconstruction of the Image”
Session C (Malone 306)
Moderator: Aloisa Moser (University of California—Berkeley)
Sam Mickey (University of San Francisco): “Earth: Spherological Imagination and the New Grand Narrative”
Cheri Carr (Loyola University Chicago): “Is the locavore movement a political movement?”
2:30-4:00
Session A (St. Robert’s Auditorium)
Moderator: Elizabeth Sikes (Seattle University)
Jason Kemp Winfree (California State University—Stanislaus): “Images of Existence”
4:15 Mayer Theater, Communications Arts Building (COMM)
Jose Garcia Moreno (Loyola Marymount University): ”Rethinking Animation or How to Jump Out of a Moving Vehicle”
Response by Brad Elliot Stone (Loyola Marymount University)
Dinner: Various options in the neighborhood or a short cab ride away.
Friday, October 3 at the Getty Center
8:45 sharp: Bus departs to the Getty from the Custom Hotel
9:45-11:15
Session A (GRI Lecture Hall)
Moderator: Michael Eng (John Carroll University)
James Risser (Seattle University): “Image and imagination in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics”
Brian Onishi (University of North Texas): “Wonder on Display: Museums and the Ontology of Wonder”
Session B (GRI PL Conference Room)
Moderator: Christopher Yates (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts)
David Jones (Kennesaw State University): “Self Narratives in Nietzsche and Zhuangzi””
Julia Sushytska (Pacifica Graduate Institute): “The Philosopher and the Art of Manipulating Images”
Session C (Boardroom)
Moderator: Holly Moore (Luther College)
Peter Milne (Seoul National University): “Authorization: Lyotard’s Sovereign Image”
Lissa McCullough (Independent Scholar): “The Crisis of Narrative: Continental Contributions to Unveiling the
Social Order”
11:30-1:00
Session A (GRI Lecture Hall)
Moderator: Dorothea Olkowski (University of Colorado—Colorado Springs)
Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco): “Mimesis from Plato to Derrida: Analyzing Suffering and Medicine’s Clinical Pictures”
Peter Warnek (University of Oregon): “From Nancy’s Unfathomable Image to the Platonic Idea”
Session B (GRI PL Conference Room)
Moderator: Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky)
Jill Graper Hernandez (University of Texas-San Antonio): “Narrative and Suffering: the Problem of Standpoint”
Christopher Yates (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts): “Caspar David Friedrich and the Reticence of the Beautiful”
Session C (Boardroom)
Moderator: Mike Kelly (University of San Diego)
Jeffrey Hanson (Australian Catholic University): “Earnestness as Kierkegaard's Key to the Self's Narrative ‘Unity.’”
1:00-3:00 Lunch (various options available at the Getty Center) and time to visit the exhibits at the Getty
3:00-4:30
Session A (GRI Lecture Hall)
Moderator: Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco)
Jason Wirth (Seattle University): “Job and the Image of God: On Malick’s Tree of Life”
Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University): “Terrence Malick and the Wonder of Being”
4:30-5:30 Additional Museum Time
5:30 Bus leaves for Custom Hotel
Dinner: Various options are available in the neighborhood or a short cab ride away.
Saturday, October 4 at Loyola Marymount University
9:00-10:30
Session A (VDA 236)
Moderator: Jessica Mayock (California State University—San Marcos)
Arun Iyer (Seattle University): “Foucault and the Death of the Image in 20th Century Art”
Sam Talcott (University of the Sciences): “The Madness of Magnitudes: Magritte and Foucault on the Market”
Session B (VDA 241)
Moderator: Matthew Altman (Central Washington University)
Erin Stackle (Loyola Marymount University): “Aristotle the Virtue Doctor”
Holly Moore (Luther College): “The Early Dialogues' Performative Imagining of Socrates”
Session C (VDA 190)
Moderator: Lissa McCullough (Independent Scholar)
Tim Freeman (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo): “Come on Baby, Light my Fire: Narratives and Images of Fire in Nietzsche’s Engagement with the Traditional Metanarratives of Western and Indian Philosophy”
Lorraine Markotic (University of Calgary): “Image, Narrative, and Nietzsche’s Critique of Socrates”
10:40-12:10
Session A (VDA 190)
Moderator: Larry Busk (University of Oregon)
Alberto Bejarano Romo (University of Memphis): “’Being in the True’: The Concept of the Statement in Foucault’s
Archaeology”
Will Britt (Boston College): “Mitya’s Amulet vs. Foucault’s Preferential Option for the Suicidal”
Session B (VDA 241)
Moderator: Michael Eng (John Carroll University)
Christopher Lauer (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo): “Narrative Epiphenomenalism, or Hegel's Critique of Twitter”
Rosalie Siemon Lochner (Loyola Marymount University): “Philosophy’s Exemplary Problem: Confronting the Necessary Conflation of Trope and Universal through Permanent Parabasis”
Session C (VDA 236)
Moderator: Dana Belu (California State University, Dominguez Hills)
Mike Kelly (University of San Diego): “Envy and the Look”
Matthew Altman (Central Washington University): “From Image to Object: Fichte's Idealism and the Feeling of Necessity”
12:10-1:30 Lunch. Various options available on campus.
1:30-3:00
Session A (VDA 241)
Moderator: Jill Graper Hernandez (University of Texas—San Antonio)
Etienne Helmer (University of Puerto Rico): “How to Talk About a Photograph”
Larry Busk (University of Oregon): “Westworld: Reality, Simulation, and Ideology”
Session B (VDA 190)
Moderator: Jason Wirth (Seattle University)
Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco): “Lost at Home”
Amanda Parris (University of San Francisco): “Moreau is the truth of Kant”
3:20-4:50
Session A (University Hall 1000)
Moderator: Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University)
Bernie Freydberg (Duquesne University): “Berkeley and Hume: Ancestors of Continental Aesthetics”
5:00-7:00 Reception and Dinner. Marymount Center
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