The symposium had a multidisciplinary agenda. It seeked to place the study of graphic traces close to the core of contemporary humanities, and to link it to studies of communication, culture and cognition. More specifically, it aimed to study (i) the processes of making and perceiving graphic traces, (ii) the graphic traces themselves (as texts) and (iii) the relationship between articulatory dynamics and traces.
Program
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
| 8.30-8.50 | Registration and Coffee |
| 8.50-9.00 | Opening of the symposium |
| 9.00-9.45 |
Keynote: Brody Neuenschwander (Independent) Ink under your nails. You still have ten fingers and why that matters |
| 9.45-10.45 |
Brody Neuenschwander Workshop Part I |
| 10.45-11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00-12.30 | Brody Neuenschwander Workshop Part II |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-14.15 | Keynote: Timothy Ingold (Uni. Aberdeen) Touchlines: Manual Inscription and Haptic Perception |
| 14.15-14.45 |
Karine Bouchy (Uni. Paris 7) The Notions of ”trace” and ”line”in the light of letter arts |
| 14.45-15.00 | Tea Break |
| 15.00-15.30 | Anne Douglas (Robert Gordon University) & Amanda Ravetz (Manchester Metropolitan University) The Graphic line – an event in its own materialization |
| 15.30-16.00 | Segolène Tarte (Uni. Oxford) Text as Shape, Text as Meaning: Papyrology and Dotremont’s Logogrammes |
Thursday, November 20th, 2014
Friday, November 21st, 2014
| 9.00-9.45 | Keynote: Theo van Leeuwen (Uni. Southern Denmark) & Christian Mosbæk Johannessen (Uni. Southern Denmark) (ir)Regularity |
| 9.45-10.15 | Georgia Aiello (Uni. Leeds) Losing to Gain: Balancing Style and Texture in the Starbucks logo |
| 10.15-10.30 | Coffee Break |
| 10.30-11.15 | Keynote: Paul Thibault (Uni. Agder) Graphic trace-making as articulated-expressive trajectories of movement: De-textualizing and de-stratifying writing. |
| 11.15-12.30 | Wrap-up discussion Plans for publication |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Symposium ends |