Dear Design Studies Forum list subscribers:

Below is a list of design-related sessions that will take place at the College Art 
Association conference in Chicago this February. They are sorted as follows:

1. DSF-sponsored sessions
2. Design - practice and theory
3. Related areas: craft, history of architecture, cultural history, visual and material 
culture

Many thanks to Sarah Teasley for compiling this list.
-CRG


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I. Design Studies Forum-sponsored sessions
Design Studies Forum
By the Book: Toward a New Paradigm of Design Studies?
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Carma R. Gorman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
The Design Culture Reader
Ben Highmore, University of Sussex
The Object Reader
Fiona Candlin, Birkbeck, University of London
Raiford Guins, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Design Studies: A Reader
Hazel Clark, Parsons the New School for Design
David Brody, Parsons the New School for Design
The Design History Reader
Grace Lees-Maffei, University of Hertfordshire; Rebecca Houze, Northern Illinois 
University
 
Design Studies Forum
Design and the Rhetoric of Democratization
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Ezra Shales, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University
Made in Canada (but What Do the Americans Think?)
Sandra Alfoldy, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Redefining Social Design in 1970s Belgium: Affordable Design vs. Elite Design
Javier Gimeno-Martinez, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Research Foundation-Flanders
IKEA’s Genealogy of Democratic Design
Jeff Werner, Goteborg Museum of Art
Rogue Design in China: Democratizing or Devaluing Design?
Tao Huang, Columbia College Chicago
Discussant:Jennifer Geigel Mikulay, Indiana University and Purdue University
 

II. Design – practice, theory
A Case for Letterpress
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Jeff Pulaski, Wichita State University; Dennis Y. Ichiyama, Purdue University
Thinking through Making: Letterpress in Contemporary Graphic-Design Education
Ashley John Pigford, University of Delaware
Putting the Digits Back into the Digital
James Boyd-Brent, University of Minnesota
The Changing Face of Letterpress: Student and Staff Work from the School of Graphic 
Design at London College of Communication
Rose Gridneff and Alexander John Cooper, London College of Communication and 
University of Brighton
The Twentieth Century Did Not Invent Graphic Design: Returning Letterpress to Design 
Education
Dawn Hachenski-McCusker, James Madison University
Tough Love for Heavy Metal: Ensuring the Survival of 15 1/2 Tons of Lead at SAIC
Catherine Ruggie Saunders and Martha S. Chiplis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
 
Studio Art Open Session
The Saranay Motel: The Collapse of Design Methodology, Detroit, and Discipline
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Elliott Earls, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Matthew Biro, University of Michigan
Benjamin Teague
Rachele Riley
Elliott Earls, Cranbrook Academy of Art
 
Intersections of Art and Design
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Debra Riley Parr, Columbia College Chicago
Recycle, Reuse, Readymade
Amanda Gluibizzi, Ohio State University
Environmental Affections: Women, Art, and Ecology
Adrian Parr, University of Cincinnati
An Art and Design Imperative: Ecomodernism Hybrid
Eric Benson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Beyond Eco-Art: Twenty-First-Century Eco-visualization
Tiffany G. Holmes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Discussant:Annette Ferrara, IDEO
 
III. Craft, Visual Culture, Cultural History, History of Architecture

Museum of Contemporary Craft
Critical Craft Forum
Thursday, February 11, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Namita Gupta Wiggers, Museum of Contemporary Craft; Elisabeth Agro, 
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages, Part I
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Kate Dimitrova, Wells College; Margaret Goehring, New Mexico State University
The Performance of Picture-Textiles: The Star Mantle of Henry II
David Ganz, University of Konstanz, Germany
Textiles Reconquested: Tissues from the Royal Tombs in the Spanish Convent of Santa 
Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos
Kristin Boese, University of Cologne
Material Evidence, Theological Requirements, and Medial Transformation: "Textile 
Strategies" in Fourteenth-Century Bohemian Panel Painting
Evelin Wetter, Abegg-Stiftung
Wearers of Meaning: Exoticism and the Political Significance of Clothing on Twelfth-
Century Column-Figures
Janet E. Snyder, West Virginia University
Orthodox Liturgical Textiles and Clerical Self-Referentiality
Warren T. Woodfin, Queens College, City University of New York
 
Women, Femininity, and Public Space in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Heather Belnap Jensen, Brigham Young University; Temma Balducci, Arkansas 
State University
Female Presence in Post-Revolutionary French Painting
Susan Siegfried, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Mistresses of the Camera: Sallie Garrity and Beatrice Tonnesen
Margaret Denny, University of Illinois, Chicago
After the Femme Fatale: Nineteenth-Century Criminality and the Spaces of Photography
Mel Francis, University of Nottingham
"Wheeling Women": The Bourgeoise and the Bicycle in Fin-de-Siecle Visual Culture
Kimberly Morse Jones, Sweet Briar College
Women and the Creation of New Art Publics in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
Julie M. Johnson, University of Texas, San Antonio
 
The Senses in Early Modern Art and Visual Culture
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Christian K. Kleinbub, Ohio State University; KIm E. Butler, American University
Close Looking: Embodiment and Materiality in Titian's Later Paintings
Jodi Cranston, Boston University
The Sense of Rilievo: Apprehending Materiality in Quattrocento Art and Theory
Christopher R. Lakey, Reed College
Un colorito ch’e di vera carne: Correggio’s Ecce Homo and Incarnational Touch
Sara Switzer, Columbia University
Words Will Lead the Way: Guiding Devotion in Fra Bartolommeo's "God the Father with 
Saints Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Siena"
Jannette Vusich, University of King's College
In the Hand of the Beholder: The Collector's Caress in Early Modern Italy
Geraldine A. Johnson, University of Oxford
 
Art History Open Session
Recent Research in Chicago Architecture
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: David Theodore Van Zanten, Northwestern University
The Skyscraper Street and Design for the Crowd ca. 1900
Joanna Merwood, Parsons the New School for Design
Marketing the Movies: Chicago Picture Palace Movie Theaters
Rachel Remmel, University of Rochester
A Preliminary Survey of the Chicago Courtyard Apartment Building: The North and West 
Sides
Michael Rabens, Oklahoma State University
From PWA to CHA: Chicago Architecture and the American Public-Housing Debate
Alison Fisher, Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University
The Inland Steel Building Inside Out
Amanda Douberley, University of Texas at Austin
Aspects of the Civic: Chicago's Daley Center and Plaza
Sharon Irish, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 
Early Modern Globalization (1400-1700)
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Angela Vanhaelen, McGill University; Bronwen Wilson, University of British 
Columbia
Cannibal Complexities: Metaphors of Incorporation and Early Modern Globalization
Susan Wight Swanson, University of Minnesota
Globalism, Economy, and Early Modern Print
Sean Roberts, University of Southern California
From Elogia to Physiognomy: Complicating Early Modern Globalization
Emine Fetvaci, Boston University
Made in China? Networks of Exchange in Ming Dynasty Porcelain
Stacey Sloboda, Southern Illinois University
Exoticism at Work: Dutch Culture in a Global Context (1600-50)
Claudia Swan, Northwestern University
 
The Modern and the Fashionable
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Aenne Soell, Universität Potsdam
Fashioning the Mistress
Gloria Groom, Art Institute of Chicago
Fashion and Figuration in the Work of J. M. Whistler: Modernism/Antimodernism and the 
Art of Aesthetic Dressing
Kimberly Wahl, Ryerson University
Fashioning the Neue Frau
Michelle Gewurtz, University of Leeds
Drawing the Line: Solarization and Spectacle Culture
Margaret Sundell, independent scholar, New York
A Man of Taste: Alexander Liberman between Fashion and Art
Antje Krause-Wahl, Akademie fur Bildende Kunste Mainz
Discussant:Andre Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania
 
Ornament: Theoretical Perspectives
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Loretta Vandi, Istituto Statale d'Arte di Urbino
Form, Function, and Flux: Ornamental Theory and the Modern Search for Perceptual 
Equilibrium
Debra Schafter, San Antonio University
Look at Your Fish (or Your Lotus): Science, Modernism, and Alois Riegl's "Stilfragen"
Margaret Olin, Yale Divinity School
August Schmarsow's Theory of Ornament
Christiane Hertel, Bryn Mawr College
Gombrich, Perception, and the Ordering of Ornament
Isabelle J. Frank, Fordham University
From Ornamental to Environmental: The Matissean Revolution as an Opening of a New 
Paradigm for Contemporary Art
Jean-Claude Bonne, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
 
Moguls, Mansions, and Museums: Art and Culture in America’s First "Gilded Age”
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Sally Webster, Graduate Center, City University of New York
California's First Gilded-Age Mansions: Conspicuous Consumption as Civic Infrastructure
Diana Strazdes, University of California, Davis
Going Public: Sculpture in the Art of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Linda J. Docherty, Bowdoin College
Strike Out: John La Farge's Proposed Murals for the Boston Public Library
James L. Yarnall, Salve Regina University
Boom (and Bust) of Artistic Reputations: Collecting Contemporary European Art in Gilded 
Age America
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University
What's France Got to Do with It?: Chicago Responds to "Parisian" Art at the Interstate 
Industrial Exposition
Kirsten M. Jensen, independent scholar, Stamford, Connecticut
 
Terra Foundation for American Art
Distinguished Scholar Session Honoring Jules David Prown: Generations--Art, Ideas, and 
Change
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Bryan J. Wolf, Stanford University
Alex Nemerov, Yale University
Margaretta Lovell, University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Roberts, Harvard University
Jennifer Greenhill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ethan Lasser, Chipstone Foundation
 
Association of Historians of American Art
From Parlor to Print Room to Classroom: Approaches to Teaching Historic American Visual 
Culture
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Georgia Barnhill, American Antiquarian Society
Connoisseurship of Prints and Paintings
Anne Verplanck, independent scholar, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
History in Print: The Theory/Practice/Challenge of Teaching with Works on Paper
Nancy J. Siegel, Towson University
Teaching the Materiality of Visual Culture
Kevin Muller, Chabot College
Print Collections and the "Active Learning" Art-History Classroom
Kristina Wilson, Clark University
"A True Record of an Interesting Event": Exploring the Intersections between Graphic Art 
and Painting in the Classroom
Ross Barrett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Virtual Exhibitions of WPA Prints
Ellen G. Landau, Case Western Reserve University
Pacific Arts Association
Visual Histories in and of Polynesia
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Stacy L. Kamehiro, University of California, Santa Cruz
Civilizing Images: Violence and the Visual Interpellation of Maori Women
Michelle Erai, University of California, Santa Cruz
Polynesia on the Potomac: Maori Art at the National Museum of Natural History
Jennifer Wagelie, Smithsonian Institution
Hawai'i and the World Fairs, 1867-1893
Stacy L. Kamehiro, University of California, Santa Cruz
In Her Shadow: Exploring Representations of Hula Girls in the Nineteenth and Twentieth 
Centuries
Caroline Vercoe, University of Auckland
 
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
In the Making: New Texts and Resources in American Craft
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Katie Lee, Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, University of North Carolina
Constructing a History from Secondary Resources
Janet Koplos, independent critic and scholar, New York
Choosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint
Vicki Halper, independent art historian
Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art
Maria Elena Buszek, Kansas City Art Institute
 
Authors of Cultural History from the Ottoman Empire to Nation-States
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Belgin Turan Ozkaya, Middle East Technical University; Elvan Altan Ergut, Middle 
East Technical University
Constructing a National Artistic Past in the Modern Greek State
Eleonora Vratskidou, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Gertrude Bell as Architectural Historian
Veronica Kalas, University of Michigan
Theodor Wiegand and Hamdi Edhem Bey: Wilhelmine Kulturpolitik in the Ottoman Empire
Lawrence M. Shapiro, Cornell University
(Re)Locating Anatolia during the Cold War: Cevat Erder and the Establishment of METU 
Department of Restoration and Preservation of Historical Monuments
Burak Erdim, University of Virginia
Discussant:Elvan Altan Ergut, Middle East Technical University
 
Visual Culture around the Indian Ocean Littoral
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Nancy Um, Binghamton University; Prita Meier, Cornell University
A Community in Transition: Tamil Merchants in China
Risha Lee, Columbia University
Dispersal and Entanglement: (Dis)locating Symbols of Authority in the Mosques of East 
Africa and Arabia
Ruba Kana'an, York University
Architecture and Society on the Asian Seas: On the Built Environment and Social Order of 
the Dutch East India Company's Ships
Richard Guy, Cornell University
Images of Efficacy: Devotional Diasporas of Shirdi Sai Baba in the Indian Ocean World
Mary Nooter Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles
CAMP's WHARFAGE Project: Recasting the Indian Ocean as a Space of Contact and 
Exchange
Murtaza Vali, independent scholar, Brooklyn
 
Masterpiece or Craft, Courtly or Popular? Situating Textiles in South and Southeast Asian 
Visual Culture
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Rebecca M. Brown, Johns Hopkins University; Pika Ghosh, University of North 
Carolina, Chapel Hill
Reframing Borders: Analysis and Interpretation of Himalayan Textile Frames
Melissa Kerin, College of William and Mary
Seeing Banners: Gendered Meanings of Buddhist Wat Textiles
Rebecca Hall, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
Modernist Grids and Homespun Weaves
Sonal Khullar, University of Washington
Clothes Make the God: The Importance of Textiles in the Worship of the God Krishna
Cynthia Packert, Middlebury College
Discussant:Katherine Hacker, University of British Columbia
 
Visual Culture Caucus
Vision, Space, and Ideology: Light in Modernity
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Niharika Dinkar, Boise State University
Through Stained Glass: Abstraction and Embodiment in Early Avant-Garde Circles
Barbara Larson, University of West Florida
Something New under the Sun: The Dramaturgy of Curative Light in Weimar Germany
Jennifer Dillon, Duke University
Benjamin's Rainbow
Gordon Hughes, Rice University
The Fantasy of Night, the Metaphor of Light: Louis Kahn’s Decorative and Referential 
Lighting
George Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant:Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University
 
Multiples and Multiplicity: Beyond Benjamin
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Friedhard Kiekeben, Columbia College Chicago; Doro Boehme, School of the Art 
Institute of Chicago
Mass-Market Manque: The Ambivalent Ambitions of the Multiple
Susan Tallman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
electroSTATIC ATTRACTION: xerox, seriality, permutation, ca.1965
Alicia Imperiale, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Scale and the Multiple
Lane Hall, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Toward an “Aesthetics of Access”: Distributing the Unlimited Multiple
Lindsay Bosch, Art Institute of Chicago
 
Theorizing Things
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Jennifer Jane Marshall, University of Minnesota; Kate Mondloch, University of 
Oregon
Visualizing Agency: Thing Theory and the Practice of Painting
Katherine Rieder, Harvard University
Between Documents and Objects: Surrealism and the Agency of Things
Joyce Cheng, University of Oregon
The Coevalness of Persons and Things: Thinking through "Hidden Art" in Irish Neolithic 
Passage Tombs
Robert J. Wallis, Richmond, the American International University in London
Game Artifacts: What Do These Things Want?
Raiford Guins, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Postconceptual Art and the Affordance of Obsolete Things
Amanda Boetzkes, University of Alberta
Studio Art Open Session
Fashion, Art, and Architecture
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Arti Sandhu, Columbia College Chicago
Archigram: Tailoring the Future
Valerie Rangel, Dominican University and International Academy of Design and 
Technology
The Comme des Garcons Retail Revolution
Emily M. Orr, Yale University Art Gallery
Persuasive Textiles
Barbara Layne, Studio subTela
Sensing the Fashion Exhibition: Viktor and Rolf, A Case Study
Mara Gladstone, University of Rochester and J. Paul Getty Museum
 
The Political Landscapes of Capitals
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Jessica Joyce Christie, East Carolina University; Jelena Bogdanovic, East Carolina 
University
The Relational Geopolitical Landscape of Constantinople, the Capital of the Byzantine 
Empire
Jelena Bogdanovic, East Carolina University
Benito Mussolini's "Third Rome": Between Tradition and Modernity
Michelangelo Sabatino, University of Houston
Landscape, Landmark, Object, Image: The Political Landscape of American-Occupied 
Manila
JoAnne Mancini, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Along the Chaophraya River: The Birth of Bangkok as a Modern Capital City
Melody Rod-ari, University of California, Los Angeles
Akhenaton's Amarna in New Kingdom Egypt: Relations of Landscape and Ideology
Jessica Christie, East Carolina University
 
Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages, Part II
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Buckingham, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Margaret Goehring, New Mexico State University; Kate Dimitrova, Wells College
Liturgical Textiles as Papal Donations in Late Medieval Italy
Christiane Elster, University of Cologne
Stephan the Great as Patron and Propagandist: Post-Byzantine Liturgical Textiles as Sites 
for the Display of Byzantine Identity and Imperial Authority
Henry Schilb, independent scholar, Bloomington, Indiana
Textile Wealth in an Eleventh-Century Armenian Miniature: Dynastic Succession and 
Affluence in a Royal Portrait
Hazel Antaramian-Hofman, California State University, Fresno
"So lyvely in cullers and gilting”: Decorative Vestments on Medieval Episcopal Effigies
Catherine Walden, University of Virginia
Weaving Legitimacy: The Jouvenel des Ursins Family and Constructing Nobility in 
Fifteenth-Century France
Jennifer E. Naumann, Florida State University
 
Visual Cultures of Contagion, Hygiene, and Convalescence, ca. 1870-1940
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Tania Anne Woloshyn, Richmond University; Anthea Callen, University of 
Nottingham
Friction and Contradiction in Edgar Degas’s "Le Pedicure"
Marni Kessler, University of Kansas
The Pasted Paper Devolution: Health and Degeneration, Hygiene, and Contamination in 
the Cubist Papier-Colles
Fae Brauer, University of East London and University of New South Wales
The Aura of the Asylum: The Photographs of the Holloway Sanatorium
Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University
Of Sweatshops and Sequins: Fashion Victims in Gilded Age New York
Alison Matthews David, Ryerson University
Make Your Health Points: FAP Posters and Public Health Education
Cory Pillen, University of Wisconsin, Madison