Call for Papers: The Icon and Modernity at Columbia University Oct 17-18

[Douglas Greenfield]

Call for Papers:

The Icon and Modernity: Mystery, Meaning, Means
A Conference at Columbia University
October 17-18, 2003

The Harriman Institute of Columbia University announces a call for
papers for The Icon and Modernity. This two-day event will bring
scholars and artists together to exchange views on the exhibition,
exposition, and use of the Orthodox icon since its rediscovery in
nineteenth-century Russia and Eastern Europe. Interdisciplinary
panels will explore problems of the icon’s status as cult object,
art object, political object, artifact, image, and text in the
modern period.

Moscow artists Komar and Melamid will present "In Search of
Religion" at a Friday evening reception and art exhibition.

Conference participants include:

Gregoire Aslanoff (Université de Paris-Sorbonne)
Robert Bird (University of Chicago)
Richard Gustafson (Columbia University)
Stephen Hutchings (University of Surrey)
John McGuckin (Union Theological Seminary)
Wendy Salmond (Chapman University)
Oleg Tarasov (author of Icon and Devotion, Reaktion Books, 2002)
Yuri Tsivian (University of Chicago)

Presenters are invited to consider a broad range of topics related
to the creation, reception and discursive formation of the icon in
the modern era, including:

Icon theology and the philosophy of language
Icon, photography, and film
The icon and literature
The icon and everyday life
The practice and politics of icon conservation
New museology models and cultures of collecting
Spectacle and contemplation
Icon workshops at home and abroad
The gendered icon
Icon and memory

Please send inquiries and abstracts by July 1, 2003 to
iconconf at columbia.edu

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