Friday Afternoon

Film screening: (2:30 - 6:15 pm)
Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia", MICHIGAN THEATER

 Friday Evening

 Panel discussion: "Olympia" (8:00 - 9:30 pm)

"Mass Ornament, Mass Control: Leni Riefenstahl's Fatal Interpretation of a Practice" -Matthew Biro, Art History, University of Michigan

German Cultural Apparatuses - Alina Clej, Romance Languages and Literature, University of Michigan

"Musical Olympics" - Stephen Whiting, School of Music, Director of the Center for European Studies, University of Michigan

Saturday Morning

Session I (9:30 -11:00 am)
Visual Cultures

"Eye Training" - Elizabeth Sears (Art History, University of Michigan)

"Standpoints and Our Forms of Life: Ludwig Wittgenstein's House for his Sister (1926-28)" - Whitney Davis (John Evans Professor of Art History, Northwestern)

Commentator: Richard Candida Smith (History/American Culture, University of Michigan)

Session II (11:30 - 1:00 pm)
Disciplined Subjects

"On the Flogging Block: Metrical Education in 19th-century England" - Yopie Prins (English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan)

"Writing the Body Electric: Self cultivation in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman" - Sara L. Rappe (Classical Studies, University of Michigan)

"Sublime Subjects: Foucault's Humboldtian Project" - James Porter (Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan)

Commentator: David Halperin (English, University of Michigan)

Saturday Afternoon

Session III: (2:30 - 4:00 pm)
Panel discussion on Andrew F. Stewart’s Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece (Cambridge U. Press, 1997)

"The Importance of Context: Archaeological and Anthropological Responses to Stewart" - Lynn Meskell (Anthropology, Columbia University)

"The Aphrodite of Knidos: Archaeology and Feminist Theory" - Natalie Kampen (Barnard College)

Response: Andrew Stewart (Art History, UC-Berkeley)

Session IV: (4:30 - 6:00 pm)
Desiring the Other

"The Living Library" - Yun Lee Too (Classical Studies, Columbia University)

"Classics and Colonialism: Toward an Erotics of the Discipline" - Sally Humphreys (History, University of Michigan)

"Missionaries, modernity, and the paradoxes of the Christian Subject" - Webb Keane (Anthropology, University of Michigan)

"To veil or not to veil: the contested nature of gender in Contemporary Turkey" - Müge Göçek (Sociology, University of Michigan)

Commentator: Vassilis Lambropoulos (Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan)

Sunday Morning

Roundtable discussion: (10:00 - 12:00 noon)

Panelists, discussants, et. al.