Interdisciplinary Arts 50th Anniversary Conference Sessions
Opening Reception: Trisolini House (Thursday, March 20, 5-6:30)
Welcome: Dean Margaret Kennedy-Dygas,
College of Fine Arts, Ohio University
(Friday, March 21, 9 AM)
Session I: Applying Interdisciplinarity
(William Condee, moderator)
(Friday, March 21, 9-11 AM)
Jennifer Yamashiro & Lori Parks (Miami of
Ohio University)
“Firing the Canon: Integrating Visual Culture and
Art History”
Glenn A. Long (Glenn A. Long Fine Arts)
“Not a Straight Line”
Henry Rinne (University of Arkansas/Fort
Smith)
“Creating a Framework for Analysis: Application
of Informing-Ideas in the
Undergraduate Fine Arts Class”
Session IV: Intersections in the Visual Arts
(Saturday 9-11) (Charles Buchanan, moderator)
Patricia Pinson (independent scholar and
curator)
“Transforming Word and Sound into Image:
Works of Walter Anderson”
Michael McKeon (Rogers State University)
“Text Revealing Image: Renaissance Medical
Practice and the Religious Art of Luca Signorelli”
Peter Doebler (Graduate Theological Union,
Berkeley)
“Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue: Hiroshi Senju’s
Waterfall Paintings as Intersections of
Innovation”
Herbert Gottfried (Cornell University)
“The American Visual Turn and the Rise of
Tourism
Heather Pinson (Robert Morris University)
“What Does a Degree in Interdisciplinary Arts
Get You?”
Session II: Myth, Identity, and Performance
(Vladimir Marchenkov, moderator) (Friday
11:15-12:45)
Session V:Transformative Processes (Garrett
Field, moderator)
(Saturday 11:15-12:45)
Ranga Kalugampitiya (Ohio University)
“Kolam Dance in Sri Lanka: A Complex
Interfusion of the Social and the Mythical”
Josh Ottum (Ohio University)
“Tomorrow's Achievements: Making Music Like
Shell Makes Oil”
Jennifer Goodlander (Indiana University)
“Performing Objects/Performing Culture:
Puppets, Museums, Theatre, and Heritage in
Indonesia”
Yining Liu (Ohio University)
“Questioning the “Authenticity” of Identity: The
Cross-Cultural Vision of Naomi Iizuka’s 36
Views”
Anton Sutandio (Ohio University)
“The Act of Killing: Retrospective Memory and
Uncertain Future of Chinese-Indonesians”
Casey Farina (Northwestern University)
“Uncertain.Indeterminate.Unknown:
Indeterminacy in Iterative Electronic Media”
Keynote Address (Friday 2-3)
Session VI: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy
(Saturday 2-3:30) (Dora Wilson, moderator)
Dr. Esther da Costa Meyer (Department of Art
& Archaeology, Princeton University)
“Object Lessons: Paris, 1920s-1930s”
Nancy Nanney (West Virginia
University/Parkersburg)
“Theatre Is More Than a Total Art; It Is a Total
Human Experience”
Anne Fletcher (Southern Illinois
University/Carbondale) and Seymour Simmons
(Winthrop University)
“Interdisciplinary Teaching to K-12 Level and
MI Testing”
Eric Allen & Nicole Wesley (Texas Tech
University)
“Musical Ensemble Conductor Training
Incorporating Bartenieff Fundamentals”
Session III: Scholarship and Practice (Jennie
Klein, moderator)
(Friday 3:15-5:15)
Session VII: Opposition, Rebellion, and
Protest (Charles Buchanan, moderator)
(Saturday 3:45-5:15)
Jena Seiler (Ohio University)
“The Naked Discipline”
Laurel Petty (Texas Tech University)
“Sports as Colonial Oppression: Re-framing
Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9”
Carrie Ida Edinger (independent artist and
scholar)
“Media and the Artistʼs Voice in Framing
Interdisciplinary Practice”
Jen Urso (independent artist)
“Insider/Outsider” paper and presentation
Marie Gasper-Hulvat (Kent State University)
“’What a Boom, What a Blast’: Kazimir
Malevich’s Graphic War Propaganda’”
Lily Wei (Ohio University)
“Cooking at the Front Line: Art, Cooking, and
Protest”
Matthew Turner (Radford University)
“Is it Guerilla Theatre or Cyber Theatre?
Comedy, Technology, and the Interdisciplinary
Problem of Flash Mobs”
Closing Festivities (buffet and refreshments)
(Kennedy Museum, 6-8)
"The Orpheus Grotto Songs: To Night"
Performed by Vladimir Marchenkov, Roger
Braun, Logan Cull, and Phally Chroy.
“Indian Music Ensemble”
Directed by Garrett Field.
“AMPERIOS (amperes): digital shorts”
Written and performed by Ely Rosa Zamora.
Directed by Henry MacCarthy.