SUPPORTERS: The Hershey Family Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities Fund; the Marvin and Sybil Weiner Fund of the Penn Library.

COLLABORATORS & COSPONSORS, PENN: Institute of Contemporary Art; Arthur Ross Gallery; Office of the Provost; Penn Libraries; Penn Museum; Institute on Aging at the Perelman School of Medecine; Comparative Literature; Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing; History of Art; Jewish Studies Program;  Romance Languages; Theatre Arts.

COSPONSORS, COMMUNITY: International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AIERTI); Philadelphia Museum of Art.