(last updated June 02 2015)
BLIND CREATIONS:
An International Colloquium on Blindness and the Arts
Royal Holloway, University of London, 28-30 June 2015
Sunday June 28
9:30am Registration Opens (Management Building Foyer)
11am Coffee and Tea
10-12:00pm Art Making Workshop with David Johnson (016)
(For pre-registered delegates only)
2a. Literature (Anglo): Chair: Nancy Hansen (Auditorium)
3a. Institutions: Chair: Emma Brodzinski (016)
4a. Key Figures: Chair: Bérengère Levet (Auditorium)
5a. Across Media: Chair: Vanessa Warne (016)
7a. Museums: Chair: Laura MacCulloch, Curator, Royal Holloway Art Collections (016)
12:00-1:00 Lunch (Management Building Foyer)
1:00-2:30: Welcome by Dr Hannah Thompson and Dr Vanessa Warne
Plenary: Georgina Kleege: 'Blind Self-Portraits' (Management Auditorium) Generously sponsored by the University of Manitoba’s Interdisciplinary MA Program in Disability Studies
2:30-3:00 Tea (Management Building Foyer)
3:00-5:00 Session 1 (Management Building)
1a. Music: Chair: Steven Riep (Auditorium)- Sebastien Durand, ‘How did music change the course of history for the Blind?’
- Selina Mills, ‘The life and times of the composer, musician, performer, teacher, Maria-Theresia Von Paradis’
- Yeaji Kim, ‘Tactile Stave Music’
- Anne-Lise Mithout, ‘Blind musicians and the making of epic poetry in Medieval Japan’
- Laura Carnelos, ‘Italian Blind Authors and the perception of their disability in the Early Modern Age’
- Jane Everson, ‘Memory and the Mind’s Eye: Ecphrasis in Il Mambriano of Francesco Cieco da Ferrara’
- Juan Gomis, ‘Songs, prayers and business: blind people in Spain (15th-18th centuries)’
- Marcia Moraes, ‘Research WITH: for a world more dense with narratives and sensorialities’
- Laura Pozzana, ‘Corporal workshop to awaken presences at the museum’
- Virginia Kastrup, ‘Art and Blindness: Three Lives Reinvented’
- Camila Araujo Alves, ‘What if we tried more?: A proposal for the field of accessibility in cultural spaces’
5:00-6:30 Artists' Talks and Exhibition Opening Reception (with wine): Chair: Vanessa Warne (Management Building Auditorium followed by Foyer and Exhibition Room 004-5) Featuring talks by David Johnson, Florian Grond, Teresa Jaynes, Partho Bhowmik, Aaron McPeake and Alice Entwistle and Lou Lockwood. (More details of the artworks on display can be found here).
6:30-8:00 Dinner and Cash Bar (Crosslands, Founder’s Building)
Presentation by Michael Mellor: 'Inventive Louis Braille'
8:00-9:30 Audio-Described Film Screening of Ruth Grimberg’s 2014 documentary Across Still Water (Management Auditorium); Panel Discussion featuring Film Makers Ruth Grimberg and Claire Levy with responses from Georgina Kleege and Louise Fryer
9:30-11pm Cash Bar (Crosslands; Founder’s Building)
Monday June 29
8:00-9:00 Breakfast for Residential Delegates and Guests (Management Building Foyer)
9:00-10:15 Session 2 (Management Building)
- Adam Pottle, ‘Blindness and Limited Narrative Omniscience in Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage’
- Hemachandran Karah, ‘Blindness writing: an examination of triple narrative positions in Ved Mehta’s The Continent of Blind Culture’
- Alice Entwistle, 'Touching Text: To The Lighthouse as tactile art in Cardiff Bay'
- Brian Miller, ‘Prairie Tales: Mary Ingalls and the Invention of a 19th Century Super Crip’
- Hiromi Kishi, ‘A History of “Blindness and the Arts” in Japan: Memories and the Power of Touch’
10:15-10:45 Tea (Management Foyer)
10:45-12:15 Session 3 (Management Building)
- Nancy Hansen, ‘Art in Everyday Objects: Resistance in the Making’
- Hazel McFarlane, ‘Blind Asylums: Places of Creative Resistance’
- Iain Hutchison, ‘Creativity versus Respectability: A contest between blind aspirations and the values of philanthropic interventionists in Victorian and Edwardian Scotland’
- Alexandra Tacke, ‘“The Blind guiding the Seeing”: the ‘blind spots’ of film history’
- Monika Baar, ‘Depictions of guide dogs and their owners in literature, visual art and film’
- Steven Riep, ‘Intersections: Objectification, Visual Impairments and Gender in Contemporary Cinema from China and Hong Kong’
- Max Ubelaker Andrade, ‘Against Seeing: Jorge Luis Borges’ Literary Imagination’
- Kevin Goldstein, 'Foregrounding the Amanuensis: Dictation, Interdependence, Epistemology'
- Aravinda Bhat , ‘Borges’s Aesthetic of Blindness: The Dialectic of the Ideal and the Experiential’
12:15-1:15 Lunch (Management Foyer)
1:15-2:15 Flatlands Theatre Event (Management Auditorium): Presentation and Demonstration by Maria Oshodi
2:30-3:30 Session 4 (Management Building)
- Bruno Ronfard, ‘An Enlightened Journey: Taha Husayn’
- Bruno Liesen, ‘Cecile Douard (1866-1941): Impressions d'une seconde vie’
- Norman Ball, ‘The innovations of Frank H. Hall’
- Annika Noll, ‘Viktor Löwenfeld and Tactility’
3:30-4:00 Tea (Management Foyer)
4:00-5:30 Session 5 (Management Building)
- Emilie Giles, ‘Exploring the role of eTextiles designed by blind and visual impaired users within cultural spaces
- Amanda Cachia, ‘On ‘Marking Blind’ online exhibition’
- Kozue Handa, ‘Shape of Content: Exploring Japanese Traditional Design through Touch’
5b. Audio Description: Chair: Ryan Knighton (Auditorium)
6a. European Texts: Chair: Hannah Thompson (002-3)
- Louise Fryer, ‘An ecological approach to audio description’
- Polly Goodwin, ‘The limits and possibilities of audio describing silent film’
- Yayoi Mashimo, ‘Near Poetry, Beyond Explanation: Toward Verbal Descriptions with Inspiration’
- Matthew Rubery, ‘Talking Books and Censorship’
- Rachel Hutchinson, ‘"Books are asked for by the loudest shouter": the challenges of reading creatively with a limited library’
- Sejal Sutaria, ‘What’s in a Name?: The Dangers and Delights of Multimodal Reading’
5:30-6:15:
Partho Bhowmik: Blind with Camera: Book Launch (016)
Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky: 'Blindness Imaginaries and Visual Culture' (Auditorium)
This session reveals blindness as a form of cultural perception lurking at the edges of all ways of looking and seeing.6:30-8:00 Gala Dinner / Cash Bar (Crosslands; Founder’s Building)
8:00-9:30 Creative Writers' Roundtable featuring Ryan Knighton, Naomi Foyle, Frédéric Grellier, Romain Villet and Rod Michalko (Management Building Auditorium)
9:30-11pm Cash Bar (Crosslands; Founder’s Building)
Tuesday June 30
8:00-9:00 Breakfast for Residential Delegates (Management Foyer)
9:15 Plenary: Zina Weygand, 'Jacques Lusseyran: Le héros aveugle de la résistance française / The Blind Hero of the French Resistance' (in French with English translation online) (Management Building Auditorium)
10:30-11:00 Tea (Management Foyer)
11-12:30 Session 6 (Management Building)
- Pieter Verstraete, ‘The representation of blindness in Maeterlinck’s theatre play De blinden and Johan van der Keuken’s documentary Herman Slobbe: Blind kind II’
- Sabine Gadrat-Cellou, ‘L'émergence d'un nouveau type de personnage(s) aveugle(s) dans la fiction’ (in French)
- Bérengère Levet, ‘Blindness or Femininity, that is the question: the young blind girl in The Two Orphans, a popular novel by Adolphe d'Ennery (1887-1889)’
- Simon Hayhoe, ‘An enquiry into passive inclusion and unreachable artworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’
- Raquel Guerriro, ‘Aesthetic Accessibility and Tactile Images of Works of Art’
- Riitta Lahtinen and Russ Palmer, ‘Art Experiences Using Haptices on the Body’
- Irina Metzler, ‘Mis-leadings: Guide Dogs and the Blind in Medieval Culture’
- Herve Baudry, ‘Barocco Blindness : music, poetry and philosophy in early-modern France’
- Jenni Kuuliala, ‘The Sacred Lack of Vision: Blindness of Saints and their Clients in the Later Middle Ages’
12:30-1:30 Lunch (Management Foyer)
1:30-3:00 Session 7 (Management Building)
- Paul Sullivan, ‘Inclusive descriptions of art works at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery’
- Sasa Poljac Istenic, ‘Including and Empowering the Blind: The Case of Slovenian Museums and Art Galleries’
- Rebecca McGinnis, ‘Seeing through Art: Blind Visitors and the Museum Experience’
- Dannyelle Valente, ‘Multi-sensory books created for and by blind children’
- Brandon Christopher, ‘The Tactile Comic: A Reading of Philipp Meyer’s Life’
- Bruno Brites, ‘Colours of Touch: A Graphic Design Experience for Blind People’
- Joyce Leysen, ‘Staring into the open: Towards a cosmopolitical understanding of blindness, art and society’
- Piet Devos, ‘Against the Pollution of the Eye: Jacques Lusseyran's Phenomenology of Pure Inner Vision’
- Maria Romeiras, ‘Visual literacy and the history of the self: an option?’
