Mieke Bal November 6, 2006

DEPARTMENT OF FINE ART
Colloquium on Visual Culture

presents

as part of the 2006-07 series
Interference

Mieke Bal
Academy Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam

"Interfering in quiet lives: the artificial community"
Monday November 6, at 4:30 pm

Location: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks St at Corner of Spadina Ave.

Mieke Bal, cultural critic and theorist, holds the position of Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences Professor (KNAW). She is also Professor of Theory of Literature and a founding director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. Her areas of interest include literary theory, semiotics, visual art, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, French, the Hebrew Bible, the seventeenth century and contemporary culture. She is also a video-artist.

Her many books include A Mieke Bal Reader, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2002; Louise Bourgeois' Spider: The Architecture of Art-writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2001; Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1999; Reading "Rembrandt": Beyond the Word-Image Opposition, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991. A Mieke Bal Reader just appeared with Chicago University Press. Her video installation Nothing is Missing is currently touring internationally.

CVC is Presented by the Department of Fine Art University of Toronto
Organizing Committee: Alexander Nagel, Lisa Steele, Alison Syme

For more information about the Colloquium, visit www.fineart.utoronto.ca/cvc or call 416 946 7624.