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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 ____________________ 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