Jonathan Milner Bordo Fall 2010 |6 Recent Publications, Lectures, Scholarly Papers, Fellowships Jonathan Milner Bordo Publications Monographs * The Homer of Potsdamerplatz (Volume of The Landscape without a Witness) Canada the Proper Name of the Wilderness (Volume of The Landscape Without a Witness) in the works correspondence with McGill-Queens University Press Thoreau’s Environmental Witness (Volume of The Landscape Without a Witness) The Specular Witness (a Collection of published (5) and new Essays) * The works listed here are supported by a preponderance of published work, papers and correspondence with publishers Art Related Books 2011 Catalogue Essay “Blue and the Art of Painting” Art Gallery of Peterborough Spring 2011 (3,000 words contract professional writing fee) 2006 Catalogue Essay \Drift Sally Thurlow: Canoe Dreamings (Montreal: ABC Art Books, 2006) ISBN: 13:978-0-931500-67-X (refereed) 4,000 words) 2004 Catalogue essay Translation: Narrative into Painting for Susan G Scott, Les Enfants Terribles, McClure Gallery, Montreal, 2004 (ISBN0-9734- 462-0-X) (refereed, 3600 words bilingual) Select Chapters and Articles “Wilderness as Symbolic Form – Thoreau, Gruenewald and the Group of Seven” in Pascale Guibert (ed.) , Paysages et Reflections, Amsterdam: Rodopi (forthcoming) The Proper Name Canada in the Environmental Imaginary of Henry David Thoreau.” In Marcienne Rocard and Michele Kaltembeck (eds), “L'Ecologie dans tous ses Etats au Canada” Editions Universitaires du Sud (EUS) France pp.155-172 2010 Jonathan Milner Bordo Fall 2010 |6 “Topography, the Sacred and Theory,” Introduction to Part III Topographies: Landscape and Body introduction for Roberta Sabbath (ed) Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an as Literature and Culture Brill Amsterdam, 2009 195200 “The Homer of Potsdamerplatz – Walter Benjamin in Wim Wender’s Sky Over Berlin/Wings of Desire, a Critical Topography” in Images – A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, Amsterdam: Brill, 2008 pp.85-108 “The Jack Pine – Wilderness Sublime or the Erasure of Aboriginal Presence from the Landscape” (republication) in John O’Brian and Peter White (eds) Beyond Wilderness, The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity and Contemporary Art (Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2007) pp.330-334 “The Wasteland – A Review Essay of Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky.” Material History Review (4,000 words) 2006 89-95 “The Keeping Place,” in Margaret Olin and Robert Nelson (eds.) Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade (University of Chicago Press, 2003) pp 157-182.* “Picture and Witness at the Site of the Wilderness,” in W.J.T Mitchell (ed) Landscape and Power (University of Chicago Press, 2002) pp 291-315 * “Phantoms,” in On European Ground: The Photographs of Alan Cohen (University of Chicago Press, 2001) pp 95-98 * “Sites of Nachträglichkeit,” in David Kettler (ed) Contested Legacies: Essays from the ‘No Happy End’ Workshop (Annandale, NY: Bard University Press, 2001) pp 7-11 “Picture and Witness at the Site of the Wilderness,” Critical Inquiry 26 (2000): 224-247 “The Witness in the Errings of Contemporary Art,” in Paul Duro (ed), The Rhetoric of the Frame: Essays on the Boundaries of the Artwork (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp 178-203; 298-301 Jonathan Milner Bordo Fall 2010 |6 Keynote and Invited Lectures 2010 Fellows Lecture “Canada the Proper Name of the Wilderness (1532 – 1763)” Fellows Lecture: John Carter Brown Library Brown University August 25, 2010 2009 Keynote “The Wilderness as Symbolic Form, a Prologue Keynote address, Spatial Practices Teesside University April 29,2009 2008 Lecture “The Homer of Potsdamerplatz,” The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence Rhode Island October 23, 2008 www.intelligentagent.com/RISD/ 2008 Keynote “Canada, the Proper Name of the Wilderness.” for L' Ecologie dans tous ses Etats au Canada March 28-29, 2008 (International Travel Grant, Trent University) 2007 Keynote “What Ruins Teach about Landscape.” Paysages et Reflexions, Caen University June 2007, 2007 (International Travel Grant, Trent University) 2007 Lecture Series “Work on Wilderness – Pictures, Refuge and the Commons,” Departments of Art History and Canadian Studies, University of British Columbia March – 13, 2007 2006 Lecture “Angels in the Aesthetic Topography of Ruins: An Aesthetic Topography.” The Phi Beta Kappa Society Honour Society Lecture, University of Rochester, New York, April 20, 2006 2006 Opening plenary session “Place Names, Boas and Inuit Toponymy, Critical Topography: The ‘Oral Hypothesis’ Revisited.” Opening plenary session, 15th International Inuit Association Meetings, Musée de Quai Branly, Paris, October 26, 2006 (International Travel Grant, Trent University) 2005 Lecture “The Homer of Potsdamerplatz,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 11, 2005 2002 Lecture “Phantoms and the Keeping Place.” Hart House, University of Toronto, January 28, 2002 2001 Exhibition Address *”Phantoms.” For the opening of the exhibition On European Ground: The Photographs of Alan Cohen, The Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, May 6, 2001 Convenor of Scholarly Panels at Learned Societies Meetings Jonathan Milner Bordo Fall 2010 |6 2004 Convener of three session panel with Ludger Mueler-Wille "Sites of Memory: Place Names, Keeping Places, Landscapes" at the Fifth International Congress of Arctic and Social Sciences (ICASS V), University of Alaska at Fairbanks, May 20-24, 2004 2004 Co-convener with Peter van Wyck (Concordia) of the session “Disaster Topographics” Canadian Communications Association, University College, University of Toronto, May 23, 2004 2001 Convener with Peter Van Wyck the session "Is Trauma Contagious?" at the Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference, Université de Laval, Québec, May 28, 2001 Selected Papers at Scholarly Gatherings 2010 “Noir Angels as Cultural Theorists” Noir Symposium, Bagnani Hall Catharine Parr Traill College October – 9, 2010 2010 “The Lady Vanishes and Theory Symposium in Memory of Bernie Hodgson Bagnani Hall, Catharine Traill College, Trent University March 26, 2009 2008 “Testimony, Poesis and Theory” at The Scope of Interdisciplinarity, University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 21, 2008 2006 “The Photograph-as-Topogram: The Topic of Ruins in Some Contemporary Art Works,” University Art Association of Canada Conference, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, November 2, 2006 2006 “Sources for Harold Innes’ Later Theory of Communications in The Fur Trade in Canada,” Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference, York University, ON, June 2, 2006 2005 “The Wilderness—The Sacred Souces of an Ethico-Aesthetic Site for Modernity American Comparative Literature Association Meetings Penn State University March 12, 2005 2000 “Landscape and Witness: Eye-Witness to a Whale Hunt, Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island, July 1998.” In the session Locals of Memory (conveners Margaret Olin and Robert Nelson) Annual Meeting of the College Art Association (CAA), New York City, February 24-30, 2000 (session videotaped) Institute and Research Seminars, Visiting Speakers, Workshops, Jonathan Milner Bordo Fall 2010 |6 2011 Lecture Thoreau’s Environmental Witness Visiting Speakers Series Cultural Studies Doctoral Program February 2011 2009 Master Classes (two) presenting and analyzing The Homer of Potsdamerplatz Visiting Research Scholar, International Visiting Academics Scheme, Institute of Design, Culture And the Arts, Teesside University April 22-29, 2009 www.tees.ac.uk/sections/research/design_culture_arts/visiting_academics.cfm 2008 Four Seminars on the Genesis, Production and Dissemination of “The Homer of Potsdamerplatz” Cultural Studies Doctoral Program (6025) November 2009 2007 Publication workshop:“The Errant North: A Critical Topography of Harold Innis’ The Fur Trade in Canada.” Chapter for Harold Innis and the North, publication workshop (convenors: William Buxton and Peter van Wyck, Concordia University, Montreal, August 15 – 17, 2007 (SSHRC funding) 2006 Research Institute seminar “Oedipus and Thoreau: The Commons, Colonus, and Culture.” Invited research seminar at the Centre Louis Gernet, Recherches comparées sur les societées anciennes, Paris, France, October 20, 2006 2001 Publication workshop “The Keeping Place.” Paper read at the colloquium Art History, Monuments and Memory, The Clarke Institute of Art, Williamstown, Mass., June 16, 2001 * Fellowships, Honours and Awards 2010 Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow, The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence Rode Island (summer 2010) www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/fr_resfellow.html 2010 Trent Research Fellowship, 2009-10 2009 Visiting Research Scholar, International Visiting Academics Scheme, Institute of Design, Culture And the Arts, Teesside University April 22-29, 2009 (travel, living expenses, stipend 500 pounds.) www.tees.ac.uk/sections/research/design_culture_arts/visiting_academics.cfm 2000 Merit Award for Excellence in Research, Trent University, 2000 1999 Visiting Scholar, Chicago Humanities Institute, The University of Chicago, Spring 1997 Merit Award for Excellence in Research, Trent University, 1997 1993-94 Sabbatical Writing Fellowship, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University 1993-94 Jonathan Milner Bordo Fall 2010 |6 1992 Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Trent University, 1992 1987-88 Swedish Institute Guest Fellowship, 1987-1988 (declined) 1987 University of Calgary Research Fellowship, Summer 1987 * 1982 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 1982 * 1975-77 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship (Aix-en-Provence and Paris) 1975-77 1972-73 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship (Munich West Germany) 1972-73 1970-74 Yale University Graduate Fellowship 1970-74