The CESAR/Clark Symposium
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,
Williamstown, Mass.,
September 11-13, 2008
Program
Thursday, September 11
| 3.00-5.00 | CESAR Board Meeting |
| 7.00-9.00 | Display, discussion of Comédie-Française Registers Project prototype (Jeff Ravel, Kurt Fendt), Williams Campus? |
Friday, September 12
| 9.00-9.15 | Welcome: Michael Holly, Director, Research and Academic Program Introduction: Mark Ledbury and Jeff Ravel |
| Morning Session: Theatricality and Illusion in the Seventeenth Century Chair: Jeffrey S. Ravel, MIT |
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| 9.15-10.45 | Mark Bannister, Oxford Brookes University. "Ces Divertissemens et inventions ingénieuses: Towards an Understanding of the Idea of Spectacle in Early Seventeenth-Century France." |
| Nicholas Paige, University of California, Berkeley. "The Fourth Wall and Other Old Innovations: Illusion and the Aesthetics of the drame." | |
| 10.45-11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Kathryn A. Hoffman, University of Hawaii. "The Theatrical Cadaver: Staging Death in the Seventeenth Century." |
| Jan Clarke, Durham University. "The Unknown Artists of the Seventeenth-Century Spectacular Stage." | |
| 12.30-2.00 | Lunch Break |
| Afternoon Session: Word, Image, and Action in the Eighteenth-Century Theater Chair: Shanti Singham, Williams College |
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| 2.00-3.30 | Jeanne Bovet, Université de Montréal. "Mouth Wide Shut: Visualizing Voice in French Seventeenth-Century Theater Images." |
| Véronique Lochert, Université de Haute-Alsace. "Illustrations and Stage Directions: Reading Theater Between Text and Image." | |
| 3.30-3.45 | Coffee Break |
| 3.45-5.15 | Sabine Chaouche, Oxford Brookes University. "The 'Theatrical' as Reflected in the Plastic Arts: Passions of the Soul in Eighteenth-Century Engraving." |
| Anne L. Schroder, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University. "François Gérard's 1787 Iphigénie and Operatic Melodrama: A View Inside J.-L. David's Studio." | |
| 5.30-6.30 | Reception in the Clark Foyer for all Conference attendees [Hopefully Clark Galleries open late] |
| Evening | Dinner for speakers in the Penthouse of the Clark Library |
Saturday, September 13
| Morning Session: Eighteenth-Century Theater Images: Fans, Fairs, and the Pornographic Chair: Mark Ledbury, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute |
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| 9.00-10.30 | Christian Biet, Institut Universitaire de France, Université de Paris X (Nanterre). "Fans as Documentary Sources: Representations of Performance in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries." |
| Nathalie Rizzoni, CELLF 17e-18e, Université de Paris-Sorbonne. "An Exceptional Iconographic Series: Handscreens and Fan with Images of Blaise et Babet of Monvel (1783)." | |
| 10.30-10.45 | Coffee Break |
| 10.45-12.15 | Françoise Rubellin, Université de Nantes. "Images of Theatrical Rivalry: Form and Function of the Fair Theater's Engraved Frontispieces." |
| Daniel Smith, Northwestern University. "Naughty Readers Envision Bawdy Theater: Illustrations in the 1782 Théâtre gaillard." | |
| 12.15-2.00 | Lunch Break [extended break to allow for visits to Clark Galleries, etc] |
| Afternoon Session: Rococo, Gender, and Genre Chair: Richard Rand, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute |
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| 2.00-4.15 | Georgia Cowart, Case Western Reserve University. "Watteau, the King, and the Staging of Spectacle." |
| Sarah Cohen, University at Albany, State University of New York. "Female Artistry and the Staging of Rococo Spectacle" | |
| 4.15-4.30 | Coffee Break |
| 5.00 | Conference Response & Roundtable |
| Response: Erika Naginski, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Roundtable convened by Mark Ledbury, Jeffrey S. Ravel |
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| 6.00 | Close of Conference: dinner for speakers at the house of Michael Ann Holly |
| 8.00 | Concert : Mark Kroll (Harpsichord) Brooks Rogers Concert Hall, Williams College |
To register for the conference, follow this link: http://www.clarkart.edu/make_a_visit/event_detail.cfm?ID=9703&nav=3