Faculty Research Forums
Faculty Research Forum is a forum for talks by our faculty and the occasional guest on humanities and social science topics of interest to interdisciplinary audiences. These forums are sponsored by the Commonwealth Center with assistance from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Faculty Research Forums are held in the Bingham Humanities Building, Room 300 and begin at 3:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Upcoming Faculty Research Forums for Spring 2010
February 26, 2010
Susan Jarosi, Department of Fine Arts
"The Toothpaste and the Tube: Brushing Up on the Myth of Rudolf Schwarzkogler's Self-Castration"
Dr. Jarosi's paper pursues an extended case study of Austrian artist Rudolf Schwarzkogler and the photographs of his infamous Action #3 (1965). It argues that the formation and circulation of the fictitious story of Schwarzkogler's self-castration functions as an example of myth today, and one which continues to exert a potent influence on the creation and reception of contemporary performance art. Her close examination of the Schwarzkogler myth illuminates a range of persistent and pervasive misrepresentations of the medium of performance art that survive intact in the twenty-first century.
**this event will be held in the Schumaker Research Building, Room 139 at 3:30 p.m.
March 26, 2010
CCHS/Women's and Gender Studies panel for Women's History Month
