Introduction /Mieke Bal -- Prelude: Dia-logic--A Dialogue in Images Between Edwin Janssen and Janneke Lam / Janneke Lam -- Don't Look Now: Visual Memory In the Present -- The Finishing Touch / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Vermeer's Women: Shifting Paradigms in Midcareer / Nanette Salomon -- "Le cinema d'apres Lumiere": Rereading the "Origins" of the Filmic Image / Thomas Elsaesser -- Killing Men and Dying Women: Gesture and Sexual Difference / Griselda Pollock -- Imagining the 'Shtetl': Visual Theories of Nationhood / Carol Zemel -- The Veils of Time: On the Historical Dimension in Cultural Analysis / Stephen Bann -- Close-Ups and Mirrors: The Return of Close Reading, with a Difference -- Venice and the Violence of Location / Helga Geyer-Ryan -- Affective Reading: Loss of Self in Djuna Barnes's 'Nightwood' / Ernst van Alphen -- History and/as Cultural Analysis: Gibbon and Ovid / Frank R. Ankersmit -- "Is This Naomi?": Misreading, Gender Blurring, and the Biblical Story of Ruth / J. Cheryl Exum -- Three Local Cases of Cross-Atlantic Reading: A Discussion on Space and Identity / Isabel Hoving -- Variety and Standard / Siegfried Zielinski -- Method Matters: Reflections on the Identity of Cultural Analysis -- Culture and Critique / Johannes Fabian -- Cultural Variety and Metaphysical Unity / Louis Dupre -- Desire, Distance, and Insight / Theo de Boer -- Cultural Analysis and the Ghost of 'Geistesgeschichte' / John Neubauer -- The Techno-University and the Future of Knowledge: Thoughts After Lyotard / Jon Cook.