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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, February 26, 2026 3:00 pm to 5:
 00 pm \n Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E \n I\nis College \n 2 Sussex Aven
 ue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 \n\nSpeakers \nJames Leo Cahill \n\nDescription:
  \nIn 1870 Giuseppe Fiorelli and his team of archaeologists produced a pla
 ster cast of a bubble in the earth in the ruins of Pompeii, revealed to b
 e a dog, which they designated watchdog of the House of Vesonius Primus d
 ue to the remnants of its collar and chain, which held it in place when t
 he Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. In 1874, Giorgio Sommer, a photographer an
 d close collaborator of Fiorelli involved in field and artifact documentat
 ion, produced a photograph of the cast of the dog he titled “Impronta del
  cane” (impression of a dog). This talk considers a media genealogy of exp
 osure that runs from the negative impression in the earth left by the dog 
 caught in Vesuvius' pyroclastic surge, its plaster cast made nearly 1800 
 years later, the photographic document of the casting, and forward throu
 gh a set of image-encounters with stray dogs in the long shadow of Vesuviu
 s, which extends to the recent Fukushima disaster and beyond. Drawn from 
 my current book project, Neither Dog nor Master: Essays in Stray Thinking
 , I examine “stray exposures” across three key registers, that of a subj
 ect’s or object’s relation to the world, particularly when characterized 
 by vulnerability; that of a technical practice related to the attempts to
  control the duration, quantity, and values of light cast upon a sensiti
 ve substrate that is always open to contingent appearances; and that of a
 n epistemological practice of revelation of previously imperceptible or un
 known phenomena, newly brought to light. I explore these valences of expo
 sure through scenes haunted by catastrophe and immiscible temporalities, 
 featuring what Baudelaire referred to as “chiens calamiteux” (calamitous d
 ogs, dogs of calamity) caught in an expansive sense of le temps de chien 
 (wretched weather; miserable times). \n\nContact Information: \n Denise I
 ng cinema.studies@utoronto.ca \n2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 \n
 \nCategories \n LecturesResearch \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCommun
 ityFacultyGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
SUMMARY:Le temps de chien: Stray exposures in shadow of Vesuvius
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