the aesthetics of trash: objects and obsolescence in cultural perspective international conference, university college dublin 4-6 september

2008 Provisional Programme Thursday 4th September Registration: 12-14.00 Opening address: 14.00-14.15 Plenary session 1: 14.15-15.15 Kathleen James Chakraborty (School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin) Recycling Landscape: Wasteland into Culture Break 15.15-15.45 Parallel Session A: 15.45-17.45: Waste and Space Matteo Melioli (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL/ IUAV School of Architecture, Venice): Dark Places: A Journey in Abandoned Venice Julien Merle (Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft): Architecture, Entropy, Expenditure and Sovereignty Parallel Session B: 15.45-17.45: Trash and the Archive Caitrona Leahy (German Studies, Trinity College Dublin): These fragments I have shored against my ruins or looking at devastation while nicely dressed: Anselm Kiefers Monuments to Culture Randall van Schepen (School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation, Roger Williams University, Rhode Island) The Heroic Garbage Man: Trash in Ilya Kabakovs The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away Christina Gehrlein (Universitt Mannheim) Less a thing than the trace of a movement Cultural and literary observations on plastic, time and identity in the age of recycling Reception 17.45 - 19.30

Friday 5th September Parallel Session A: 9.30-11.30 Trash Collection I Joel Burges (Department of English, Stanford University, California): All that is solid does not melt into air: Historical change and figurations of the outmoded in William Gibsons Pattern Recognition Isabel Exner (Institut fr Romanistik, Humboldt University, Berlin): Outcasts, waste and dirty pleasures in contemporary Caribbean novels Parallel Session B: 9.30-11.30 Trash Production Douglas Smith (French and Francophone Studies, University College Dublin) Scrapbooks: Recycling the Lumpen in Benjamin and Bataille Craig Martin (University College for the Creative Arts, UK) Flotsam and Flow: Waste, Accident, Interruption in Commodity Movement Tahl Kaminer (Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft) The Triumph of the Insignificant Parallel Session C: 9.30-11.30 Trash and the Souvenir I Terry OHagan (School of Archaeology, University College Dublin): Rubbishing religion, religious rubbish: eight centuries of objects and obsolescence in St. Audoen's Church, Cornmarket, Dublin Michael Hayes (Emeritus scholar, University of Lancaster) Trash detritus and religion Coffee break: 11.30-12.00 Plenary Session 2: 12.00-13.00 Uwe Steiner (Neuere Germanistik, Universitt Mannheim) The Problem of Garbage and the Insurrection of Things Lunch 13.00-14.30 Parallel Session A: 14.30-16.30 Trash Recycling Maria Fusco (Goldsmiths College, University of London): Derrida, Doom Knots and the Blank Page Catherine Bates and Nasser Hussain (School of English, University of Leeds): Talking Trash/Trash Talk Caroline Kraus (Department of Humanities, University of Michigan-Dearborn) Searching for Proteus

Parallel Session B: 14.30-16.30 Trash and the Souvenir II Joanna Brck (School of Archaeology, University College Dublin): Total rubbish! Re-evaluating the cultural significance of trash in prehistory Kerri Cleary (School of Archaeology, University College Dublin): The Recycling of Material Culture on Settlement Sites in Bronze Age Ireland. (c.2400-c.600 cal. BC) Gary Boyd (School of Architecture, University College Cork) In the debris of the Irish bog Parallel Session C: 14.30-16.30 Trash Collection II James Ward (University of Ulster): Rubbish eighteenth century: refuse and its (dis)contents Christian Moser (Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen Taal- en Letterkunde, University of Amsterdam): Dust. The Cultural Semiotics of a State of Decomposition Emer OBeirne (French and Francophone Studies, University College Dublin), Artfully arranged trash: Jeff Wall and Jean Echenoz Coffee break 16.30-17.00 Plenary Session 3 17.00-18.00 Kevin Hetherington (Open University, UK) Ruins, Rubbish and the Aesthetics of Kairos Conference dinner 19.30 onwards

Saturday 6th September Parallel Session A: 9.30-11.30 Human Trash Georgiana Banita (University of Constance, Germany): Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dump: Bioethics and the Remains of the World Trade Centre Carsten Schinko (Institut fr Literaturwissenschaft, Universitt Stuttgart): Why trash? The Culturalization of Poverty in Contemporary Popular Culture Wim Peeters (Leiden University): Deconstructing Wasted Identities in Contemporary German Literature Parallel Session B: 9.30-11.30 Trash Collection III Sonja Windmller (Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg): Trash Museums Exhibiting in between Lee Stickells (University of Sydney) and Nicole Sully (University of Queensland) Haunting the Boneyard: unearthing the neon signage of Las Vegas Mari Paz Balibrea (Birckbeck College, University of London): Daring to resist: Narratives of Obsolescence in Barcelona Coffee break 11.30-12.00 Parallel Session A: 12.00-13.30 Trash on Film Harvey OBrien (OKane Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin): Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better: Edward D. Wood Jr., Tim Burton and the apotheosis of the forsaken Pat Brereton (Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Dublin City University) Ecology, Film and Waste Management A: 12.00-13.30 Human Trash Parallel Session B: 12.00-13.30 Trash Collection IV Kevin Barry (College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, NUI Galway): Dying and the Aesthetics of Waste: Found Objects, Patches and Assignats Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (Hispanic and Lusophone Studies, University College Dublin), Could the trash of the past be gendered? The case of Ins Pedrosas Nas Tuas Mos Closing address: followed by lunch 13.30-2.30