A2: Cross-Cultural and Gendered Collecting

Seminar Leader: Helen Fazio, Rutgers University, V.G. Julie Rajan, Rutgers University and Janet Walker, Rutgers University

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Grande Ballroom 2

Geoffrey Baker, Rutgers University: “Empiricism and the Empire: Orientalist Antiquing in Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin”

Judith Pascoe, University of Iowa: “Queen Charlotte, Collector”

Helen Fazio, Rutgers University: “Revisioning the Self by Means of the Other: Jean-Marie Lenoir and Bruce Chatwin”

V.G. Julie Rajan, Rutgers University: “British Male Imperialists’ Appropriation of Opium: The Renegotiation of Identity in Sites of Empowerment and Refuge”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Grande Ballroom 2

Linda Steer, Binghamton University: “Photographic Appropriation, Ethnography and the Surrealist Other”

Dorothy Figueira, University of Georgia: “Segalen, Gauguin, and the Fabrication of Tahitian Art”

Margaret R. Higonnet: University of Connecticut: “Souvenirs of Death: World War I and Memory”

Camilla Mortensen, University of Wisconsin – Madison: “Appropriation in the Flesh: Ethnography and the Modern Primitives”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Grande Ballroom 2

Kelly Austin, University of California – Los Angeles: “Pablo Neruda and Walt Whitman: Collections, Catalogues, and Translations”

Susan Antebi, University of California – Riverside: “Rearranging the Orientalist Collection: Fictional Photography and Textual Truth in the Work of Mario Bellatin”

Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts – Boston: “Translation Transactions: How to Guard Against the Reader as Collector”

Janet Walker, Rutgers University: “Van Gogh, Collector of Japanese Prints and Collector of Japanese Images: from Collection to Aesthetic Translation”