SPRING 2003

The City, The Hinterland, The House, The Grid
Saturday April 5, 9:00 AM-12:30 PM
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 West Burton Place, Chicago

Symposium Speakers:
Neil Levine, Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture
Antoine Picon, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Ed Taverne, University of Groningen, Art History

Respondents:
Michael Conzen, University of Chicago
Robert Bruegmann, University of Illinois, Chicago
Kevin Harrington, Illinois Institute of Technology
Katherine Taylor, University of Chicago

Moderator: David Van Zanten, Northwestern University

This symposium will examine and clarify the strange and suggestive ubiquity across many spatial scales of grid construction in Chicago planning c. 1900. The central event is the phenomenon of Frank Lloyd Wright claiming to invent a new architecture and urbanism in precisely that year by first dividing the existing mile-square agricultural grid into blocks, then dividing in still further into a grid to control the smallest details of the house designs he conceived within those blocks. Trying to imagine something entirely new, this remarkable architect sought to derive it from this simple geometric system: why?

Organized by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts with support from The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Program in the Study of Imagination at Northwestern University.


Imagination Incarnate
Thursday April 17, 5 PM
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Auditorium

Mark Johnson
Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of Philosophy
University of Oregon

Mark Johnson is co-author, with George Lakoff, of Metaphors We Live By (1980) and Philosophy in the Flesh (1999). He is author of The Body in the Mind (1987) and Moral Imagination (1993). Recently, he has been working on a broad range of topics including metaphors for musical motion and space, metaphors of attention in cognitive psychology, the role of feeling in human consciousness and thought, and the roots of meaning in sensorimotor experience.

In this lecture, Johnson will draw on recent research from the cognitive sciences that sheds new light on the way various imaginative processes are grounded in aspects of human bodily experience and movement. This research shows how imagination plays a central role in all aspects of our experience, understanding, and thinking.

Cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy


Space, Place, Source and Score
Thursday May 8, 5:00-6:30 PM
Marjorie Ward Marshall Studio Theater (TI building)
(Light refreshments served)

Beppie Blankert
Renowned Dutch choreographer participates in a roundtable discussion about her creative process. The roundtable will be led by Northwestern University Dance Program faculty member and dance artist Lisa Wymore, and dance artist and composer, Sheldon B. Smith. Themes covered in the discussion will include: hybrid performance, architectural installation, exploration of performance space, sound score composition, collaborative models and source material inspiration.

Cosponsored by the Dance Program

For more information and to RSVP please contact Lisa Wymore: 847-491-3147; l-wymore@northwestern.edu

Note:
Catch the Concert: May 14 - 18, 2003 presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art
Beppie Blankert in collaboration with Louis Andriessen, a central figure in the international new music scene, show their work entitled Odyssey. The piece is a site-specific dance-concert taking place on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Call 312-397-4010 for tickets and listings of other events related to this exciting performance.


Commanding Voices and Sights 'Full of Terror': Witch-Speak at Court on the Jacobean Stage
Friday May 9, 1:30 PM
The Newberry Library, room 101
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
Seminar on Medieval and Early Modern Magic

Katy Stavreva
Assistant Professor
Cornell College

Katy Stavrena is author of several essays and articles, including "'There's Magic in Thy Majesty': Queenship and Witch-Speak in Jacobean Shakespeare," in High and Mighty Queens of Early
Modern England: Realities and Representations (2003) and "Tainting the Marvelous Monarchy: Witchcraft on the Jacobean Stage" in Renaissance Refractions: Essays in Honour of Alexander Shurbanov (2001).

This lecture will address the prominent position witches, and their powerful discursive manipulations that Katy Stavreva has called witch-speak, took up on the Jacobean stage in the early seventeenth century. Like nobility, witches were a sure thrill for the theater-going crowds of Jacobean London, though it was not always easy to distinguish among these character types. Theatrical queens and court ladies like Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, Hermione and Paulina (The Winters Tale), Middleton's Duchess of Ravenna (The Witch), Ford's Penthea (The Broken Heart) displayed a masterful rhetoric whose corporal power closely resembled that of low-born witch-speak. The violent words of these queens begot violent responses, but also a liberating energy to body forth the violence of history. The witch-speak of these Jacobean queens, princesses, and their ladies-in-waiting, Stavreva argues, provided the kind of discursive bond within the social world of the plays that could hold a kingdom together.

Sponsored by Northwestern University and the Program in the Study of Imagination at Northwestern University, the Magic Seminar is organized by Linda Austern, Northwestern University; Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern University; and Armando Maggi, University of Chicago.


New Music Marathon
Amy Williams and Jay Alan Yim, co-directors
Sunday May 11, 3:30-10:30 PM
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Auditorium and Print Room) and Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
(free admission)

Featuring cellist:
Frances-Marie Uitti

Uitti will perform improvised and composed music throughout the day of the Marathon. She will also give a public demonstration of her 6-string MIDI cello and double-bowing technique (date/time/room TBA).

For more information about Ms. Uitti, see: http://www.radiantslab.com/Uitti

Full announcement

The annual New Music Marathon is organized by New Music Northwestern and sponsored by the Northwestern University School of Music (Dean Bernard Dobroski) with additional funding supported by generous grants from the French Interdisciplinary Group (Northwestern University), the Program for Studies in the Imagination (Northwestern University), the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music.


How Lear Means: Buried Metaphor and Disquiet in King Lear
Thursday May 22, 5 PM
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Auditorium

Bradd Shore
Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University and Director of the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life

Bradd Shore is the author of Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning (Oxford Press, 1996), and How Culture Means (The Heinz Werner Lectures, Clark Univ. Press 1998). He received his BA in English Literature from Berkeley, with an emphasis in Shakespeare Studies, and his MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. He teaches a course in Ritual and Shakespeare at Emory University.

This talk will look at several of the key structural metaphors that shape the language and the action of Shakespeare's King Lear, in an effort to understand some of the ways in which the play achieves its uncanny effects on the audience. The talk will combine literary analysis and developments in cognitive science, particularly work on analogical cognition and the suggested notion of "buried metaphor."
Cosponsored by the Department of English


WINTER 2003

The Poverty of Context: Historicism and Nonmimetic Fiction
Thursday, January 16, 4 PM
Chris Lane
Professor of English, Northwestern University

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Pick-Laudati Auditorium

Shadows on a Dime: Subcultures, Generational Differences and Queer Temporality
Thursday, January 23, 4 PM
Judith Halberstam
Professor of English, University of California, San Diego

Organized by the Gender Studies Program


Entangled Knowledge: Medicine and the Occult in de Lancre, Paré, and Furetière
Friday, January 31, 1:30 PM
Harriet Stone
Washington University

The Newberry Library, room 101
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies

Seminar on Medieval and Early Modern Magic
Sponsored by Northwestern University and the Program in the Study of Imagination at Northwestern University, the Magic Seminar is organized by Linda Austern, Northwestern University; Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern University; and Armando Maggi, University of Chicago.

While there is no fee to attend this seminar, participants should register in advance. To register, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514, or at renaissance@newberry.org. Information is also available at http://www.newberry.org/nl/renaissance/L3rrenaissance.html. Funds are available for graduate students and faculty of consortium institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend the Seminar on Medieval and Early Modern magic. If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies.

Participating ensembles:

Musica Forte (brass ensemble directed by Alex Bonus of the Newberry Consort):  4-part fantasias by G. Frescobaldi (1583-1643), canzonas in fantasy style by G. A. Cangiasi (fl. c. 1600)

Second City Musick (viol trio directed by Mary Springfels of the Newberry Consort):   Works by Josquin des Pres (c.1450-1521), Wm. Byrd (1543-1623), Wm. Lawes (1602-1645), et al.

Northwestern University Early Music Ensemble (student and community ensemble directed by Mary Springfels):  Fantasias and ricercare by J. P. Sweelinck (1562-1621), Francesco da Milano (1497-1543), et al.

Music and Fantasy in England
Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Dept. of Fine Arts--Music History and Culture, Syracuse University)

Fantasy and Imagination in 18th-Century German Philosophy: Kant’s Aesthetic Theory
Jane Kneller (Dept. of Philosophy, Colorado State University)

Melancholy and Fantasia in the Age of Enlightenment
Elaine Sisman (Chair, Dept. of Music, Columbia University)

Workshop: String Fantasies
Sunday, February 23, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Part of an ongoing monthly coaching series with Mary Springfels, Mark Rozendaal, and Craig Trompeter.  Location on Northwestern campus and other details to be announced.

Information
Concert tickets:Pick-Staiger Concert Hall Box Office (847) 491-5441.
Symposium:Contact Judith L. Schwartz j-schwartz@northwestern.edu, (847) 491-5431.
Workshop:Contact Mary Springfels at SpringfelsM@newberry.org.

The Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival has been made possible through the generous support of the Dunbar-Davee family.


Resistance is Fertile, Gesture and Agency in the Field of Responsive Media
Thursday, February 27
Sha Xin Wei
Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Pick-Laudati Auditorium

Musical Thinking in Children: The Role of Imagination
Wednesday, March 5, 4 PM
Peter Webster
Department of Music, Northwestern University

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Pick-Laudati Auditorium

FALL 2002

Francis Bacon and the Monarchy of Magic
Friday October 4, 1:30 PM
Todd Butler
Assistant Professor of English, University of Tennessee- Martin

Newberry Library
Organized by the Center for Renaissance Studies


Artificial Intensity (AI): Images, Instruments, and the Technology of Amplification
Friday October 18, 3 PM
Barbara Stafford
Professor of Art History, University of Chicago

Louis Hall
Organized by RTVF


Vacancy or Possession: The Subject in Trance
Monday November 11, 4 PM
Marina Warner
Independent scholar

Annie May Swift Hall

(please request seminar materials by e-mailing psi@northwestern.edu)