Symposium: Figural Analysis

The Figural Analysis working group, sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute, is excited to announce a symposium on May 9th that will include 6 presentations from members of our group (see poster and below for schedule).

*Registration is required for this as space is limited—please email the organizer directly (t.quist@mail.utoronto.ca) to reserve a seat for the Friday's events.

10:00 - Arrival 

10:15 - 11:45 - Panel 1

• Sam Reimer - Video's Noisy Figure: History, Texture, Desire
• Thomas Quist - Cinema Fashion Figural

11:45 - 12:45 - Lunch

12:45 - 2:15 - Panel 2

• Heath Valentine - Figura Historica
• Mynt Marsellus - Terms of Criticism: Elements, Figures, and Automatisms in Brenez and Cavell

2:15 - 2:30 - Coffee

2:30 - 4:00 - Panel 3

• Hayden Bytheway - On the Endurance of the Slacker
• Nicole Liao - Figurative language, experimental reasoning, and reshaping the biological milieu: the role of figural thinking in early chemistry and the life sciences

The group would like to thank the generous support of their symposium from the Jackman Humanities Center, the Cinema Studies Institute, the Department of Art History, and the Department of Visual Studies (UTM).