Vital Constitutions Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Oct 14, 2017 at 9:30am – 6:30pm CDT
Moody Center For The Arts, Houston, TX 77057, USA
Attendance is free | RSVP required
9:30a Doors Open | Morning Coffee & Pastries
@ Lantern Room, Second Floor
light Refreshments to be served in the conference library and art exhibition
10:00a Panel One: Biology, Politics, and Mutation
@ Double Classroom, Second Floor
Delanie Linden
“‘Let’s flesh things out’ Conceptualizing Physionomie in the Siècle des Lumières.”
Victoria Bugge Øye
“Medical Machines: Architecture to Flip Your Soul.”
Nikki Moore
“Sparking Evolution: The United States Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Gardening at the Inter-American Institute for Agricultural Science in Turrialba, Costa Rica, 1943-1960.”
11:30a Coffee Break
@ Lantern Room, Second Floor
light refreshments to be
served in the conference library and art exhibition
11:45a Panel Two: Building, Memory, and the Forsaken
@ Double Classroom, Second Floor
Lacy Murphy
“A Theater of Death: Sarah Bernhardt’s Morbid Photographs and Belle Époque Consumerism.”
Emily Verla Bovino
“On Prisons and Museums: Niche Construction and the Dialectic of Care and Castigation at Donald Judd’s The Chinati Foundation (Marfa, Texas, 1986).”
Christian Whitworth
“Lesions, Hernias, and Post-Soviet Anxieties: Boris Mikhailov’s Community of Loss.”
1:15p Lunch Break
The Moody Café is open from 10 to 5
Visitors can also walk to Salento at the Brochstein Pavilion on Rice Campus
2:30p Panel Three: Ritual, Remedy, and Form
@ Double Classroom, Second Floor
Janine DeFeo
“The Body of Work: Weight Loss as Body Art.”
Hanna Washburn
“Healing in the Studio: An Artist Talk.”
Christina Novakov-Ritchey
“Practical Aesthetics: Negotiating Sickness in Eastern Serbia.”
4:00p Coffee Break
@ Lantern Room, Second Floor
light refreshments to be served
in the conference library and art exhibition
4:30p Invited Speaker Panel & Town Hall Discussion
@ Double Classroom, Second Floor
Dr. Suzannah Biernoff
Dr. Jairo Moreno
Erika Blumenfeld
6:15p Closing Remarks