Upcoming talk: nostalgiArt. between time-, homesickness and the performative role of nostalgia (keynote) / School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism

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Graduate symposium, “Reminiscing/Reinventing”; in relation to the exhibition: Recipes for Madeleines.

Conference Schedule:

- 09:30 – 09:45: Opening remarks
- 09:45 – 11:15: Panel 1
  - Bryan LeBeuf, Simulacrum I: Home Movies
  - Alexandre Saden & Hande Lara Sever, The hope, the end: Sabbatai Zevi and nostalgia for the Apocalypse
  - Ana Stojanovic, Embodied Memory and Mass Performances in the Context of the Former Yugoslavia(s) and the Republic of Serbia
- 11:20 – 12:50: Panel 2
  - Megan Fariello, Mediating the Upside Down: Stranger Things and the Techno-Historical Acoustic
  - Jennifer Smart, Neon Nostalgia: Vaporwave’s Unconscious
  - Teresa Retzer
- 12:50 – 14:20: Lunch break
- 14:20 – 15:50: Panel 3
  - Morgan Green, Old Words by New Means: AI, Poetry, and Nostalgia
  - Julia Sharpe, Looking out Windows: Between Cruel Optimism & The Image of Nostalgia
  - Susan Mackey, Dreams of the South: Racial Fantasy in the Plantation Photographs of Clarence John Laughlin
- 16:00 – 17:00: Keynote speech by Katharina Niemeyer