Archive
2023
ADORNMENT
The 38th Annual Mary L. Cornille (GRS’87) Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture
April 21-22, 2023 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Symposium Co-Coordinators:
Hannah Jew & Rachel Kline
Stained glass windows. Painted tiles. Gilded embroidery. Sparkling jewels. Elaborate hairstyles. Be it person, place, or thing, history has left few surfaces unadorned. In art, adornment is a tool for communication. Alongside beauty and frivolity lie revelations about identity, taste, wealth, and reverence. Bound up with ideologies of class, gender, and self-fashioning, adornment of the human body in particular is a powerful signifier across time and space. When scholars of visual and material culture underscore adornment, they demonstrate how it is central to art making and not merely incidental or additive. Studies in adornment have emphasized the affective function of adorned surfaces created with the ability to enchant, inspire, and amaze the viewer. Adornment is embellishment, ornamentation, and enhancement, and it is essential to understanding the visual realm.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
“Adornment and Femininity in Renaissance Culture (and Now?)” by Dr. Jill Burke, Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures, University of Edinburgh.
This event was generously sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; and the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association.
2022
(UNDER)WATER
The 37th Annual Mary L. Cornille (GRS’87) Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture
April 2, 2022 via Zoom
Symposium Co-Coordinators:
Katherine Mitchell and Francesca Soriano
Water has long occupied a place in art and image making, as subject matter, artistic inspiration, and as a source for materials. The universality of water serves as a useful framework for uniting visual and material production across cultures, geographies, and centuries. Its innumerable and perpetually-changing forms can also serve to highlight differences. Bodies of water provide food, materials, commodities, and waste disposal for human communities. They also function as spaces of transit, connection, exploration, and trade, and sites of religious observance and social identity. Water and water bodies are a source of mystery, myth, and danger. The challenges posed to humans by both too much and too little water continue today. Expanding scholarship in the green and blue humanities considers the relationship between human cultural and visual production and non-human natural forces. Considerations of connections between the blue world and its presence in art and visual culture deepen our understanding between humans and their environs.
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“Water as Place and Path in Oceanic Visual Culture” by Dr. Stacy L. Kamehiro, Associate Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department, University of California Santa Cruz.
This event was generously sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; and the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association.
2021
CROWD CONTROL
The 36th Annual Mary L. Cornille (GRS’87) Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture
April 23-24 via Zoom
Symposium Co-Coordinators:
Jillianne Laceste and Phillippa Pitts
Crowd control — as both an idea and an act — raises questions about agency, authority, and influence. From ancient Rome to Boston City Hall, state-sponsored architecture has policed the body and shaped the ideal of a citizen. Yet subtler forces such as painting, prints, and photographs also exert powerful influence. The events of this past year have heightened our awareness of both the power of the people and the contours of the systems which surround them. We have seen the wide array of structures that seek to order, pacify, neutralize, inspire, repress, or control the collective.
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“Power and Participation in Public Art” by Paul Farber, Monument Lab director and co-founder
This event was generously sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; and the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association.
2019
FRONTIER: Exploring Boundaries in the History of Art and Architecture
The 35th Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture
March 2 – 3, 2019
Symposium Co-Coordinators:
Kiernan Acquisto and Rachel Hofer
Liminal spaces enable the incorporation and interpretation of new objects, ideas, and materials. Frontiers conjure fraught historical moments, instances of subjugation and resistance, and thresholds charged with possibilities. How do these new frontiers, either physical or metaphorical, impact artistic production? How do creators engage with a world continually in flux, negotiating these boundaries that at times can seem both rigid and expansive? On the edges of these frontiers, art and architecture express concepts ranging from hybridity to marginality.
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“Bordering on the Sacred: Visualizing the Paradox of Pollution” by Dr. Ila Sheren, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis
2018
Excess
The 34th Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture
March 2 – 3, 2018
Symposium Co-Coordinators:
Sasha Goldman and Jennifer S. Tafe
Excess conjures the idea of the extractable, left over, too much, or “extra.” Looking closely at perceptions of the extraneous reveals excess to be a historically constructed category that marks shifting notions of cultural values. Deemed peripheral, abject, deviant, and tertiary due to factors such as geographic relationships or conceptions of power at a particular moment, excess is the focal point of the 34th Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 2, 2018, Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
“The (De)Civilizing Process: Paul McCarthy’s Regressive Routines” by Dr. Cary Levine, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of Undergraduate Studies at UNC Chapel Hill
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 3, 2018, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Morning Session:
Discussant: Alexandria Yen, PhD Candidate, Boston University
Kearstin Jacobson, MA Student, Montana State University
“Luxuria in the Shadow of Vesuvius: Personal Decoration as a Means of Constructing Feminine Personae at Oplontis”
Caroline Murphy, PhD Student, MIT
“Taming Excess: Antonio Bosio’s Roma Sotterranea (1632) and the Problematic Evidence of Catacomb Paintings in Counter-Reformation Rome”
Anna Ficek, PhD Student, CUNY
“Artifice and Excess in Urban Images: Picturing the Decline of Potosi in the Eighteenth Century”
Afternoon Session:
Discussant: Kimber Chewning, PhD Student, Boston University
Noel Albertsen, MA Student, University of California, Davis
“Gilding the Grave: The Lavish Aesthetics of Death in a Picturesque Cemetery”
Amanda Lett, PhD Candidate, Boston University,
“Too Handsome” for Use: Bank Note Vignettes in the Antebellum Era”
Ashley E. Duffey, MA Candidate, Penn State,
“Glut on the Market: Robert Rauschenberg·s Rome Flea Market and Post-War Italy”
2017
Trashed:
Rejection and Recovery in the History of Art and Architecture
The 33rd Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture
March 24 – 25, 2017
Symposium Co-Coordinators:
Kelsey Gustin, PhD student, Boston University
Tessa Hite, PhD candidate, Boston University
What happens to the ideas and materials that end up in the scrap bin of history? While some projects are laid to waste, others are repurposed or reimagined. The 33rd Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art and Architecture invites submissions that explore themes of dispensability and resourcefulness.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 24, 2017, 5:30 pm
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
“”Thinking with Objects: Visibility, Imagination, and the Art of Remaking in Dakar’s
Creative Economy”
Dr. Joanna Grabski
Professor and Chair of Art History and Visual Culture at Denison University
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, February 27, 2016, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Morning Session
Discussant: Bryn Schockmel, PhD Candidate, Boston University
Jennifer Gear, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
“Bring Out Your Dead: Domenico Tintoretto and the Problem of Depicting Plague
Corpses in Early Modern Venice”
Liz Hirsch, PhD Student, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
“Channel Heights Defense Housing: Trial and Error in Richard J. Neutra’s Pocket Utopia”
Elizabeth Saari Browne, PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Modeling Enlightenment: Reconsidering Clodion’s Bacchic Sculpture”
Afternoon Session
Discussant: Kiernan Acquisto, PhD Student, Boston University
Daniel Healey, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
“Egyptian Stones and Roman Ashes: Alabaster Cinerary Urns in Elite Roman Tombs”
Alexander Bigman, PhD Student, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
“‘A Newer Brutalism: Reconsidering the Art of Rachel Whiteread”
Katherine Hammond, PhD Candidate, Ohio University
“Ruins, Whitewashing and the Reimagined: Alaa Awad’s Protest Mural”
This event was generously sponsored by The Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.
2016
Serious Fun:
The 32nd Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture
February 26 – 27, 2016
Symposium Coordinator: Catherine O’Reilly, PhD candidate, Boston University
Serious Fun: Expressions of Play in the History of Art & Architecture.
In all of its forms, play is a vital expressive force. Whether theatrical or athletic, rollicking or subversive, play has enacted a pivotal role in shaping cultural life. The 32nd Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture invites submissions that consider aspects of play as form, content, process, and methodological framework.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, February 26, 2016, 5:30 pm
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
“The Play of Italian Renaissance Art”
Dr. Paul Barolsky
Commonwealth Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Literature, McIntire Department of Art,
University of Virginia
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, February 27, 2016, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Morning Session
Moderator: Ewa Matyczyk, PhD candidate, Boston University
“At War and at Play: American Children and the Russo-Japanese War”
Emma Thomas, PhD candidate (American & New England Studies), Boston University
“Humor and Social Hygiene in Havana’s Nineteenth-Century Cigarette Marquillas”
Asiel Sepúlveda, PhD student (Art History), Southern Methodist University
“Monument | Memory | Play: Joseph DeLappe’s Dead in Iraq”
Will Partin, PhD student (Art History), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Afternoon Session
Moderator: Joseph Saravo, PhD candidate, Boston University
“Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718): Print, Games and the Artist at Play”
Naomi Lebens, PhD candidate (Art History), Courtauld Institute of Art
“Isabella d’Este: Patronage, Performance, and the Viola da Gamba”
Elizabeth Weinfield, PhD candidate (Musicology), The Graduate Center (CUNY)
“‘A Friend may taste/But dont wast’: A Study of Puzzle Jugs and Drinking Culture in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” Margaret Frick, MA student (Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture), Bard
Graduate Center
This event was generously sponsored by The Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.
2015
Creative Conflict:
The 31st Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium on the History of Art and Architecture
February 27th – 28th, 2015
Symposium Coordinator: Sarah Parrish
The “Creative Conflict” symposium explored visual and material manifestations of discord among individuals, groups, nations, and ideologies.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, February 27, 2015, 5:30 pm
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
DR. RICHARD M. LEVENTHAL
Executive Director of the Penn Cultural Heritage Center
“Killing Identity: Heritage Destruction in the Syria and Iraq Conflicts”
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Morning Session: Wound
Moderator: Olivia Kiers, MA candidate, Boston University
Steve Burges, PhD candidate, Boston University
From Iraq to Afghanistan: The 1954 Hague Convention and the Renewed Mission of the United States to Protect Culture
Christine Garnier, MA candidate, Tufts University
Consequences of Conflict: Personifications of Captivity in an Armenian Manuscript
Lauren G. Close, MA candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
‘Vandalism’ on the Pont-Neuf: Monuments as Propaganda in Revolutionary France
Afternoon Session: Weapon
Moderator: Tessa Hite, PhD candidate, Boston University
Florencia San Martin Riutort, PhD candidate, Rutgers University
Politics of Collectivity: Muralism and Public Space in Brigada Ramona Parra’s Practices During Unidad Popular
Luisa Fernanda Villa Morales, MA candidate, American University
The Embodiment of Violence in Performance Art: Regina José Galindo
Megan Whitney, MA candidate, University of Arizona, Tucson
Visualizing Violence: Seventeenth Century Slapstick Humor
EPILOGUE: CONFLICT TODAY
Tour of the exhibition Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict by curator Pamela Allara
Saturday, February 28, 2015, 3:30 pm
Mrs. E Ross Anderson Auditorium + Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
230 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
This event was generously sponsored by The Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.
2014
See the Light:
The 30th Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium on the History of Art and Architecture
February 28th – March 1st, 2014
Symposium Coordinator: Caitlin Dalton
The “See the Light” symposium considers the employment and reception of light in the history of art and visual culture.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, February 28, 2014, 5:30 pm
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
PROFESSOR S. HOLLIS CLAYSON
Episodes From the Visual Culture of the Electrified City of Light
S. Hollis Clayson is the Samuel H. Kress Professor at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 2013-2014. She is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Art History and History at Northwestern University. She has published widely on nineteenth-century French art and culture including two monographs, Painted Love and Paris in Despair. Her forthcoming book is entitled Electric Paris: The Visual Cultures of the City of Light in the Era of Thomas Edison.
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
MORNING SESSION
Discussant: Emily Voelker, PhD Candidate, Boston University
Elisabeth Berry Drago, PhD Candidate, University of Delaware
Shadowed Spectatorship in the Photographic Nocturne, 1895-1910
Sarah Rovang, PhD Candidate, Brown University
“A Light in Every Heart”: Electric Lighting and the Modernization of the American Farmstead
Tina Rivers, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Tripping the Light Fantastic: Thomas Tadlock’s Archetron
AFTERNOON SESSION
Discussant: Jordan Karney, PhD Student, Boston University
Jung E. Choi, PhD Candidate, Duke University
Temporalizing the Space of Light: Your Atmospheric Colour Atlas
Brendan McMahon, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Tricks of the Light: Representing Iridescence in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish World
Betsy Stepina Zinn, PhD Student, Rice University
Waiting for Ganzfeld: James Turrell’s End Around and the New Landscape
This event was generously sponsored by The Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.
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2013
In/Accessible:
The 29th Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture
March 1 – 2, 2013
Symposium Coordinator: Margaret Shortle
The In/Accessible symposium seeks to examine those works of art, design, and architecture that make accessibility part of their interpretive structure.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 1, 2013, 5:30 pm
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
Dr. Maria Loh, Willis F. Doney Member, The Institute for Advanced Study
“Still Lives: The Dead Man, the Blind Man, and the Ghost in the Portrait.”
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
MORNING SESSION
Discussant: Caitlin Dalton, Boston University
Erin McKellar, Boston University
‘Well-Designed Yet Moderate in Price’: MoMA’s International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design
Evangelos Kotsioris, Princeton University
Communicating collectiveness: the omnipresent ‘Kunst am Bau’ (and its other) in the former GDR
Amy A. DaPonte, Stanford University
Inaccessible Public Space: Candida Höfer’s interior photographs 2000-present
AFTERNOON SESSION
Discussant: Ariel Green, Boston University
Daniel Borengasser, University of Oregon
Ryūhonji’s Jeweled Pagoda Mandala: Visualizing the Lotus Sutra in 13th Century Japan
Lindsay Alberts, Boston University
Shifting the Self: Subjectivity and the Studiolo of Francesco I de’ Medici
John Hawley, University of Virginia
An Inaccessible Image: Reinterpreting Meaning in Thomas de Keyser’s ‘Portrait of Constantijn Huygens and His Clerk (1627)’
This event was generously sponsored by The Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery. Additional appreciation is extended to the Hotel Commonwealth, the Bertram and Samuel Sewall Inns, and the Visual Culture Consortium, Boston.
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2012
Seeing Multiple:
The 28th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture
March 2 – 3, 2012
Symposium Coordinator: Leslie K. Brown
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 2, 2012, 5:30 pm
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
Dr. Howard Singerman, Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory and Chair, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia
“Sherry Levine: One, Two, Many”
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 10am – 3pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Beth Pugliano, Boston University, PhD candidate
Rainbow Porthé, University of Chicago, PhD candidate
“The King’s Many Bodies: The Tomb of René d’Anjou”
Carrie Anderson, Boston University, PhD candidate, “From Painting to Tapestry: Reproducing Dutch Brazil in the Collections of Frederik Wilhelm I and Louis XIV”
Shannon Connelly, Rutgers University, PhD candidate
“’Hilde Four Times’: Multiple Vision in Karl Hubbuch’s Viermal Hilde (1929)”
AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Naomi H. Slipp, Boston University, Jan and Warren Adelson Post-MA Fellow in American Art and PhD student
Marie Gasper-Hulvat, Bryn Mawr College, PhD candidate
“Copying One’s Former Self: Malevich’s Late Career Reproductions of His Own Early Work”
Frances Jacobus-Parker, Princeton University, PhD candidate
“The Lithologies of Vija Celmins”
Zach Rottman, University of Rochester, PhD student
“Partial Photography: Barbara Probst and the Rounding of the Index”
This event was generously sponsored by The Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery. Additional appreciation is extended to the Hotel Commonwealth, the Bertram and Samuel Sewall Inns, and the Visual Culture Consortium, Boston.
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2011
Gold!:
The 27th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art and Architecture
March 4 – 5, 2011
Symposium Coordinator: Lana Sloutsky
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 4, 2011, 5:30 pm
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
Dr. Rico Franses, Chair, Department of Fine Arts and Art History, American University of Beirut
“The Blinding Light: Gold in Roman Egyptian, Byzantine and Islamic Art”
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 5, 2011, 10am – 3pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Kenneth Hartvigsen, Boston University
Roland Betancourt, Yale University
“The Hermeneutics of Gold-Ground Technology in Middle Byzantine Art”
Ilaria Patania, Boston University
“Bronze is the New Gold!”
Esther van Duijn, University of Amsterdam
“Gold Brocaded Fabrics and the Use of Gold in Northern Netherlandish Paintings From the Early Sixteenth Century”
AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Martina Tanga, Boston University
Lynley Anne Herbert, University of Delaware
“All That Glitters is Not Necessarily Gold…Electrum As Visual Exegesis in an 8th Century Gospel Book”
Michael Sanchez, Columbia University
“Marcel Broodthaers, 1971: Esthetics and Political Economy”
Beth Pugliano, Boston University
“What of Frankincense and Myrrh? Gilding the Magi’s Gifts”
This event was generously sponsored by The Humanities Foundation at Boston University; the Art and Architecture History Department, Boston University; the Graduate Student History of Art and Architecture Association, Boston University; the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, Boston University; the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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2010
Place:
The 26th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art
March 19 – 20, 2010
Symposium Coordinator: Carrie Anderson
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 19, 2010, 5:30pm
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
Anne Whiston Spirn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Language of Landscape”
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 10am – 3pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Lana Sloutsky, Boston University
Elisa Foster, Brown University
“Remembered Places and Lost Spaces: Retrieving the Medieval Sites of Le Puy-en-Velay”
Jessica Roscio, Boston University, AMNESP
“The New Woman at Home: Alice Austen, Gendered Identities, and Domestic Spaces”
Sally H. King, Columbia University/The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Establishing the Modern Gateway: the Ornament and Architecture of Grand Central Terminal, 1913”
AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Austin Porter, Boston University
Elizabeth Bennett Hupp, University of California, Berkeley
“On China Cabinets in a Mennonite Living Room”
Erica North Morawski, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Savior of Stop-Gap Housing: The Role of the Quonset Hut in Post-World War II University Housing”
Leslie K. Brown, Boston University
“Nostalgia with a View: Meditations on the Tower Optical Coin-Operated Binocular Viewer”
This event was sponsored by The Humanities Foundation at Boston University; the Art History Department, Boston University; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.
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2009
Chance:
The 25th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art
March 27 – 28, 2009
Symposium Coordinator: Keely Orgeman
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 27, 2009, 5:30pm
Boston University Art Gallery
Robin Kelsey, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
“Vital Accidents in the Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron”
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 29, 2008, 10am – 3pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(Order of talks was determined by a roll of dice at the keynote event)
MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Dalia Habib Linssen, Boston University
Brianne Cohen, University of Pittsburgh
“Farocki’s Deep Play: Gambling on Spectatorship”
Adam Greenhalgh, University of Maryland
“Counting George Bellows’s Forty-two Kids “
Susan M. Wager, Columbia University
“‘Chance and Anti-Chance’: Toward a New Definition of the Dada Diagram”
AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Christina An, Boston University
Ginger Elliott Smith, Boston University
“Spontaneous Destruction: Jean Tinguely’s Study for an End of the World, No. 2”
Andrea Ferber, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Andy Goldsworthy: Between Permanence and Ephemerality”
Amanda Hellman, Emory University
“Tree Sculpture and the Uncontrollable Force of Nature”
This event was sponsored by The Humanities Foundation at Boston University; the Art History Department, Boston University; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.
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2008
Damage:
The 24th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art
March 28 – 29, 2008
Symposium Coordinator: Melissa Renn
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 28, 2008, 5:30pm
Boston University Art Gallery
Jen Mergel, Assistant Curator, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
”In Light of Blindness: Seeing Damage as a Generative Force”
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 29, 2008, 10am – 3pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Beth Pugliano, Boston University
Kimberley Muir, The Art Institute of Chicago/Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
“Restoring Works of Art When Damage Carries Meaning”
Rosario Inés Granados Salinas, Harvard University
“Memory Ablaze: The Destruction of a Mission Church”
Nathan James Peterson, University of Iowa
“Restoring the Summer Palace from Ruins to an Amusement Park”
AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Catherine Walsh, Boston University
Catherine Roach, Columbia University
“Taking Pictures: Dean Keller’s Photographs of Looted Artworks During World War II”
Michael Alvar de Baca, Harvard University
“Broken Bodies in the Landscape of Memory: Anne Truitt’s Hardcastle (1962)”
Shira Brisman, Yale University
“Shifting Perspective: Desecration and Re-dedication in R.B. Kitaj”
This event was sponsored by The Humanities Foundation at Boston University; the Art History Department, Boston University; the Graduate Student Organization, Boston University; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.
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2007
Heist:
The 23rd Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art
March 23 – 27, 2007
Symposium Coordinator: Tara Ward
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 23, 2007, 5:30pm
Boston University Art Gallery
Simon Houpt, Author of Museum of the Missing & New York-based arts and culture columnist for The Globe and Mail
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 29, 2008, 10am – 3pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
MORNING SESSION
Luis Castaneda, New York University
“Out of the Burial Chambers: Tomb Looting as a Cultural System“
Molly Scheu, Boston University
“The Completion Complex: Appropriation and Transformation of Italian Medieval Paintings and Classical Sculpture Fragments in the Renaissance“
Martha Clawson, Boston University
“Beyond the Euphronios Krater: American Museum Policies in Antiquities’ Future“
AFTERNOON SESSION
Michelle Wijegoonaratna, New York University
“Oskar Kokoschka and Max Oppenheimer: Purloined, Pilfered, and Plagiarized-Viennese Portraiture and the Psychology of Influence”
Jenny Lin, University of California, Los Angeles
“Stealing and Spectacle: Picturing Theft Tactics in the (Neo) Avant-Garde“
Patrick Haughey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Archive as Gift, Trust as Law: Judging Nixon’s Boxes“
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2006
Punch Line – Humor, Irony, and Satire in Art and Visual Culture:
The 22nd Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art
March 24 – 25, 2006
Symposium Coordinator: Amber Ludwig
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 24, 2006, 5:30pm
Boston University Art Gallery
Judith Wechsler, National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Art History, Tufts University
“The Wit of Daumier and Grandville: Puns and Permutations”
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 25, 2006, 10am – 3:30pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
MORNING SESSION
Nathan Elkins, University of Missouri
“References to Trajanic Coin Types in Juvenal’s First Satire”
Sandra Cheng, University of Delaware
“The Carracci at Work and Play: Pranks, Caricature, and Art Theory”
Quintana Heathman, Boston University
“Catfish and Bureaucrats: Japanese Political Cartoons from the Early Meiji Period”
AFTERNOON SESSION
Yomi Ola, University of Iowa
“Woman, Power, and Parody in Twentieth-Century Yoruba Wood Sculpture”
Kelli Olgren-Leblond, University of Southern California
“Shut Your Trap: George Grosz’s Hintergrund and the Limits of Political Satire in Weimar Germany”
John Stuart Gordon, Boston University
“Dove Tales: History and Humor in American Studio Furniture’
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2005
Visualizing the Invisible:
The 21st Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art
March 18 – 19, 2005
Symposium Coordinator: Stephanie Mayer
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 18, 2005, 5:30pm
Boston University Art Gallery
Alan Wallach, Professor of Art History and American Studies, College of William and Mary
“Old and New (Old) Art History: In Search of the Historical Subject”
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 19, 2005, 10am – 3:30pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
MORNING SESSION
Karia Marie Cabanas, PhD Candidate, Art History Department, Princeton University
“Yves Klein’s Immaterial Material”
Stassa Edwards, PhD Candidate, Art History Department, Florida State University
“Missing Mothers: Hogarth’s Marriage á la Mode and the Exchange of the Visible and Invisible”
Josh Martin Ellenbogen, PhD Candidate, Art History Department, University of Chicago
“Francis Galton, Typicality, and the ‘Portrait of the Invisible’”
AFTERNOON SESSION
Catherine Reed, PhD Candidate, Art History Department, Rutgers University
“‘True Musick of the Eye’: The Role of Nature’s Music in the Construction of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting”
Irene Sunwoo, MA Candidate, Architectural Association, London, UK
“Collecting Architecture”
Bobbye Tigerman, MA Candidate, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
“Envisioning London Underground: Representations and Perceptions of London’s Underground Railway, 1860 – 1900”