The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley presents

ARTISTS / INTELLECTUALS / INSTITUTIONS

Saturday, February 9, 2002
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

How are the arts, artists, and arts scholarship valued, rationalized, legitimated or marginalized
within institutional structures? These questions, fundamental to the newly-established
Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, will be addressed by three interdisciplinary panels
of artists and art scholars from UC Berkeley and elsewhere.

Topics to be addressed include the often-vexed relations between artists, artisans, and
critical scholars within academic institutions, and the forces that create these tensions;
the challenges faced by intellectuals who focus on the arts as they try to integrate
"extra-aesthetic" values into their research; and how practitioners interpret and
misinterpret theory, using deconstruction in architecture as a case-study.

Session One: Art and Its Institutions
10:00 am - 12 noon

Sally Banes, Professor of Theatre and Dance, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anne Anlin Cheng, Associate Professor of English, UC Berkeley
Harry Elam, Professor of Drama, Stanford University
Ivan Gaskell, Margaret S. Winthrop Curator, Department of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts, Harvard University Art Museums
B Ruby Rich, independent film critic, curator, and author, Associate Professor, Adjunct, of Film Studies, UC Berkeley
moderated by Shannon Jackson*, Associate Professor of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, and Rhetoric, UC Berkeley

lunch break, 12 noon - 1:00 pm

Session Two: Architecture’s “Mediated” Discourse
1:00pm 3:00 pm

Sylvia Lavin, Professor and Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA
Mitchell Schwarzer, Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory, California College of Arts and Crafts
moderated by Harrison Fraker*, Dean, College of Environmental Design and Wurster Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

break, 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Session Three: Experiencing the Arts/Writing Within the Disciplines
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm

Anthony Cascardi*, Goldman Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish, UC Berkeley
Whitney Davis, Professor of History of Art, UC Berkeley
Pablo Baler, Ph.D. candidate, Spanish, UC Berkeley
Todd Cronan, Ph.D. candidate, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Anthony Grudin, Ph.D. candidate, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Jennifer Scappettone, Ph.D. candidate, English, UC Berkeley
moderated by Charles Altieri*, Professor of English and Director, Consortium for the Arts/Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley

A reception will follow in the English Department Graduate Lounge, 330 Wheeler.

*Members of the core faculty of the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley.