| During the fall of 2006, the Baker-Nord Center hosted the third of four annual integrated seminar programs supported by Senior Faculty Fellowships, Seminar Scholarships, and distinguished Baker-Nord Seminar Visiting Fellows. Members include scholars, artists, and community leaders drawn from the Case faculty as well as from other University Circle and Cleveland area cultural institutions. The seminar meets regularly throughout the semester and is organized around the general theme of “Information."
We are very pleased to announce our Baker-Nord Seminar Visiting Fellows for Fall 2006: S. Brent Rodriquez-Plate, Avital Ronnel, and W.J.T. Mitchell.
The Baker-Nord Center’s Humanities Week in April 2007 will be related to the theme of the fall seminar, and seminar members will participate in the planning process for that program. Beyond this, we hope that the seminar will lead not only to new scholarly progress for the individual seminar members but also to new collaborative projects.
BAKER-NORD SEMINARIANS,
FALL 2006
VISITING FELLOWS:
S. Brent Rodriquez-Plate
Brent Rodriguez-Plate is assistant professor of religion and the visual arts at Texas Christian University, where his courses include, "Religion and Visual Culture" and "Myth and Ritual on Film". He has previously taught at the University of Vermont and the Atlanta College of Art. His publications include several books and numerous articles, essays, and reviews situated at the intersection of religion and visual culture, including: Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics (2004); Religion. Art. and Visual Culture: A Reader (2002); Representing Religion in the World Cinema (2003); and Blasphemy: Art that Offends (2006), and the forthcoming book, Religion and Film: The Reader.
Avital Ronnel
Avital Ronell, an internationall acclaimed scholar, is professor of comparitive literature and professor of Germanic languages and literuares at New York University, where she directs the Research in Trauma and Violence Program. She taught an annual seminar in Literature & Philosophy at NYU with Professor Jacques Derrida and has taught with Professor Helene Cixous at Université of Paris VIII. She regularly teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and in Mexico. She was invited by the Humanities Council to offer a seminar at Princeton University in spring 2006. Her books include: The Uber Reader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell (Ed. Diane Davis. Forthcoming 2006); The Test Drive (2005); Stupidity (2001); (Translations in Progress: Paris: Galilée; Berlin: Brinkmann und Bose); Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium (1994); Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992); The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (2001); Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986) (paperback with new introduction 1993). W. J. T. Mitchell
W. J. T. Mitchell is Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Critical Inquiry, a quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences. A scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature, he is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology (the study of images across the media). He is known especially for his work on the relations of visual and verbal representations in the context of social and political issues. He has received numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Morey Prize in art history, and the University of Chicago’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. His publications include: “The Pictorial Turn” (in the journal Artforum, 1992); What Do Pictures Want? (2005); The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon (1998); Picture Theory (1994); Art and the Public Sphere (1993); Landscape and Power (1992); Iconology (1987); The Language of Images (1980); On Narrative (1981); and The Politics of Interpretation (1984).
SENIOR FELLOWS:
Christopher Flint, associate professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences specializing in eighteen-century British literature.
Miriam Levin, teaches cultural and political history and history of technology and science in the department of History, College of Arts and Sciences.
Gary Lee Stonum, Oviatt Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Martha Woodmansee, professor of English and law at Case Western Reserve University, and director of the Society for Critical Exchange.
SEMINAR SCHOLARS:
Michel Avital, assistant professor of information systems, Weatherhead School of Managment, Case Western Reserve University.
Brian Ballentine, senior instructor of English, College of Arts and Science, and director of Professional and Technical Communication, department of English.
Kristen Baumlier, assistant professor and chair of the TIME0Digital Arts department, Cleveland Institute of Art.
Laura Hengehold, associate professor of philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences.
Eva Kahana, Robson Professor of Humanities and Sociology and director, Elderly Care Research Center, College of Arts and Sciences.
Elisabeth Koll, associate professor of modern Chinese history, College of Arts and Sciences.
Raymond Ku, professor of law and associate director, Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts, Case Western Reserve University.
Alexander P. Lamis, associate professor of political science, College of Arts and Sciences.
William Marling, professor of English and co-director, World Literature Program, College of Arts and Sciences.
Tim Robson, deputy director, Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University.
Christian Wulffen, associate professor, Foundations department, Cleveland Institute of Art.
SEMINAR MODERATOR:
Timothy K. Beal, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion and director, Baker-Nord Center.
Anne Helmreich, associate professor of Art History and associate director, Baker-Nord Center.
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