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Conference Program
June 22nd
2006
9:00 - 10:30: Registration and Introduction
Room
G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee
break
Room
G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE
11.00 - 12.30: Parallel Sessions
Session 1: Architecture and Space
Room A316, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Sabine Wieber
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Session 2: Representation and Similarity
Room AGWR, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Pete Ainsworth |
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Abstraction and Planning: The Visuality of
Urban Planning at Mid-Century in the United States
Andrew M. Shanken, University of California,
Berkeley |
Models and make-believe
Adam Toon, University of Cambridge |
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White Cube and Black Box: The return of the
subject in 1960s American art and psychology
Dawna Schuld,
University of Chicago |
Canny Resemblance
Catharine Abell, University of Manchester |
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Representation and the aesthetics of
architectural plans
Sonit Bafna,
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Representation, Perception and Imagination
Edward Winters, The Edward James Foundation |
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 15.00:
Parallel Sessions
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Session 3: Uses and Appropriations of
Photography
A316, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Nick Grindle |
Session 4: Truth and Objectivity
AGWR, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Elisabeth Schellekens |
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Deception by Touch: The Nature Print and
Photography in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Naomi Hume, Chapman University |
Anti-realism and Aesthetic Cognition
Ruben
Berrios,
Queen’s University Belfast |
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Interoperability and the photograph
Catherine De Lorenzo and Deborah van der
Plaat, FBE University of NSW |
Artistic Objectivity
Christopher Eliot,
Hofstra
University |
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Scientific Aesthetics: The Methods and
Photography of Eadweard Muybridge & Sol Lewitt
Jeannine Tang |
Varieties of Truth in Artistic and Scientific
Representation
Anjan Chakravartty,
University of Toronto |
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
Room
G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE
15.30 –17.00:
Parallel Sessions
Session 5: “Mental Images”
A316, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Matthew Hunter |
Session 6: Examples and Exemplification
AGWR, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Adam Toon
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Reasoned Images
Josh Ellenbogen, University of Chicago |
The Use of Examples as Symbolic Practice
Elisabeth Birk, RWTH Aachen/Aachen University |
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Composite Images and Pure Dreams: The
Communicative Functions of Iconic Signs
Mats Bergman, University of Helsinki |
The role of illustration in argumentation
Gloria Origgi, CNRS, Institut Nicod |
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Learning through fictional representations in
art and science
David Davies, McGill University |
The facts about pictures: A response to
Perini
Letitia Meynell,
Dalhousie University |
18.00 –19.30: Plenary Lecture
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre at the Courtauld Institute of Art
Report on the
Book 'Visual Practices Across the University'
James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago/University College Cork, Ireland
June
23rd 2006
9.00 – 10.30: Plenary Lecture
Room
G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE
John Hyman,
University of Oxford
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee
break
Room
G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE
11.00 – 12.30:
Parallel Sessions
Session 7: Can Pictures Be Scientifically
Explained?
A316, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Josh Ellenbogen
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Session 8: Philosophical Accounts of
Representation
AGWR, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Otávio Bueno |
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Pictorial Depiction: Letting Neuroscience Say
Something to Nelson Goodman
Pradeep Ajit Dhillon,
University of Illinois |
The visual character of pictorial
representation
Katerina Bantinaki,
University of Manchester |
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Chaos Damn It. Fractals and Jackson Pollock
Francis Halsall, University College Cork |
On the interpretation of Guernica: Why
isomorphism won’t do for representation – in art or in
science
Mauricio Suárez, Complutense University |
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Reconsidering Visual Experience and Pictorial
Representation: An Enactive Approach
Johan Veldeman, University of Antwerp |
An Argument against the Conflation of
Denotation and Representation
Gabriele Contessa, London School of Economics
and Political Science
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Gabriele
Contessa will be unable to attend the conference. |
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 15.00:
Parallel Sessions
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Session 9: Historical Encounters of Art and
Science
AGWR, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Christine Stevenson |
Session 10: Shaping the Mind - Imagining the World:
Perception, Cognition and Representation in the Arts and
Sciences
A316, Old Building, LSE
Introduction and Session Chair:
Dolores Iorizzo, London e-Science Centre, Imperial College
London
Visual Membranes: Optical Drawing Devices and
the 'Subjective Objectivity' of Vision and Representation in
Early Nineteenth Century
Erna Fiorentini, Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science
Vermeer and the Problem of Painting Inside a
Camera Obscura
Philip Steadman, University College London
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Circa 1600: a Scientific Watershed, a
Nominalist Philosopher, and a Not-so-Realist Painter
Itay Sapir, University
of Amsterdam, and Ecole des hautes études en sciences
sociales (EHESS), Paris. |
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Taming the Two-Eyed Beast: Doubtful Visions
of Animals in the Seventeenth-Century French Academies
Paula Lee, University of South Florida
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Paula Lee
will be unable to attend the conference. Andrew Goldfinch
will present this paper on her behalf. |
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Between Art & Science: Representation, Dr.
Richard Mead, & the Royal Society in the Eighteenth Century
Craig A. Hanson,
Calvin College |
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
Room
G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE
15.30 –17.00:
Parallel Sessions
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Session 11: Images and Knowledge
AGWR, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Anjan Chakravartty |
Session 12: ‘Shaping the Mind - Imagining the
World: Perception, Cognition and Representation in the Arts
and Sciences’ continued
A316, Old Building, LSE
The Very Visual Vocabulary of the Mind
Anil Anthony Bharath, Imperial College London
Sciences of the Face: Portraits and the
Expression of Emotion, Character
and Physiognomy
Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston |
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Alchemy, Nominalism and the Art-Nature Debate
in Medieval Literature
Brendan O'Connell, Trinity College Dublin |
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Knowing with images: medium and message
John Kulvicki, Dartmouth College |
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Scientific Imaging: Representation,
Mechanization and Interpretation
Otávio Bueno,
University of South Carolina |
18.00 –19.30: Plenary Lecture
Room S75, St Clements Building, LSE
Exemplification, Idealization
and Understanding
Catherine Elgin, Harvard University
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