Materialisms

The ‘materialisation’ of Reception Studies has not yet happened. Whilst elsewhere in the Humanities ever-greater emphasis has been placed upon embodiment and being-in-the-world, the theorisation of Reception has proceeded largely as though acts of transmitting and receiving occur in a largely abstract, conceptual space. What happens when we think of objects – not just has passively exchangeable, but as active processors of reception? What happens when (as theorists of ’embodied mind’ would propose) we erase any firm boundaries between the intellectual agent of reception and the wider material world in which she is located? Can we imagine a model of reception as incorporation, as receiving onto the surface or into the cavities of the body?

Schedule

Tuesday, July 1

9.00-9:30
Coffee

9.30-10.45
Session 1

Michael Squire (King’s College London)
Response: Jas’ Elsner (Oxford)

10.45-11.15
Coffee

11.15-12.30
Session 2

Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (Oxford)
Response: Constanze Güthenke (Princeton)

12.30-1.30
Lunch

1.30-2.45
Session 3

Barbara Graziosi (Durham)
Response: Phiroze Vasunia (Reading)

3.00-4.30
Applied Materialisms
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

4.45-6.00
Session 4

Brooke Holmes (Princeton)
Response: Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford)

6.00
Drinks

7.00
Dinner

Wednesday, July 2

10.00-11.15
Session 5

Jim Porter (Irvine)
Response: Sebastian Matzner (Exeter)

11.15-11.45
Coffee

11.45-1.00
Session 6

Alastair Blanshard (Queensland)
Response: Caspar Meyer (Birkbeck)

1.00-2.00
Lunch

2.00-3.15
Session 7

Richard Neer (Chicago)
Response: Simon Goldhill (Cambridge)

3.15-3.45
Coffee

3.45-5.00
Session 8

Dan Orrells (Warwick)
Response: Miriam Leonard (UCL)

5:00-5:30
Closing Discussion