KEYNOTE

MOURNING, MELANCHOLIA, MOONLIGHT

JOHN PAUL RICCO

TDR MORRICE HALL

16.30-18.00

Followed by a reception

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John Paul Ricco is Professor of Comparative Literature, Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Logic of the Lure and The Decision Between Us: Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes (both published by University of Chicago Press). He has edited issues of Parallax and the Journal of Visual Culture, his essay, “The Commerce of Anonymity” was recently published in the journal Qui Parle, and other recent essays have been included in the collections: Nancy and the Political (Edinburgh); Porn Archives (Duke); and W.J.T. Mitchell’s Image Theory (Routledge). He is currently completing a monograph titled, The Intimacy of the Outside, of which his lecture at the Queer Research Colloquium is a chapter.