About this event
While James A. W. Heffernan's monograph, Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (1991), remains one of the most influential works on ekphrasis, his definition of ekphrasis as "the verbal representation of visual representation" is becoming increasingly inadequate.
Indeed, recent years have seen something of a return to its eighteenth-century meaning, more generally connoting description of, or commentary upon, any work of art in any medium. The growth in new media has led to new ekphrastic approaches which continue to inform and reframe more traditional practices.
Organised by Oz Hardwick, Leeds Trinity University, and Cassandra Atherton, Deakin University, this one day symposium is devoted to current thinking on ekphrastic responses to artworks in diverse media.
Agenda
Timing | What's happening | Speakers |
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From 9:00am | Registration and refreshments | |
10:00am | Welcome | |
10:15 - 11:45am | 'Moving words' presentations |
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'Learning encounters' presentations |
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12:00 - 1:00pm | 'Ekphrastic Lives' presentations |
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'Ekphrastic Identities' presentations |
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1:00 - 2:00pm | Lunch | |
2:00 - 3:30pm | 'Ekphrastic Collaborations' presentations |
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'Looking at Gender' presentations |
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3:45 - 5:15pm | 'Testing Boundaries' presentations |
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'Other Angles' presentation |
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5:30 - 6:30pm | Book launch - Dancing about Architecture and Other Ekphrastic Maneuvers - and reception |
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When
9:00am-6:30pm, Saturday 6 July.
Where
Village Hotel Leeds North, 186 Otley Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS16 5PR.
Who should attend?
Everyone is welcome. Please register to let us know you are coming.
How to book
Tickets for this event are no longer available.
Accommodation
The Village Hotel offers accommodation. Other nearby accommodation may be found at:
- Weetwood Hall Hotel
- Travelodge Leeds Central
- Premier Travel Inn Leeds Bradford Airport
- Hinsley Hall
- Britannia Leeds Bradford Airport
- Ascot Grange Hotel
Further Information
If you have any queries regarding this event, please contact ekphrasis@leedstrinity.ac.uk.