10:00–11:00 a.m.: Panel 1: Premodern Touch
- Meng Zhao (University of Chicago): “Crafting Sensuality: Tactual Erotics in Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers”
- Maria Constantina Terss (Stanford University): “Contacting Spirit: Forming the Invisible in the New Image of post-Iconoclast Byzantium”
- Meagan Khoury (Stanford University): “Negotiating Touch and Talk in Giotto’s Noli me tangeres”
11:00–11:15 a.m.: Coffee break
11:15–12:15 p.m.: Panel 2: Modern Contact
- Maggie Borowitz (University of Chicago): “‘To turn your private life into something that’s shared’: Private Spaces and Intimate Visions in Magali Lara’s Art”
- Molly Superfine (Columbia University): “Tactility and Transference in the Early Works of Beverly Buchanan, 1978-1981”
- Colin Buist (University of Toronto): “Touching Queer Faith”
12:15–1:00 p.m.: Lunch break
1:00–2:00 p.m.: Keynote Panel
- Eva Hayward (University of Arizona): “Painted Camera, ‘Her’”
- Candice Lin (UCLA): “Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping”