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Upcoming Events: Spring Quarter 2008
(All events held in Kresge 3-430 unless noted)

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A symposium:
"1968/2008: The Aesthetics of Engagement"

Friday, June 6
9am-6pm
Harris Hall 108

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the mass uprisings, strikes, manifestations, and incidents of cultural opposition that marked 1968 around the globe, Assistant Professor Hannah Feldman has invited eight scholars from a range of disciplines to campus for a one-day symposium that will consider the implications of 1968 for understanding the intersections of politics and culture today.

Participants include...

Charity Scribner, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, City University of New York
Rachel Haidu, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
Judith Rodenbeck, Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History, Sarah Lawrence College
Tim Brown, Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern University
Christopher Dunn, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane
Steven Nelson, Associate Professor of African and African American Art History, UCLA
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, UC Irvine
Phil Ford, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Indiana

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Past Events:

A conference:
"(World) Art: Art History and Global Practice"

Friday, May 23 from 3pm-8pm
Saturday, May 24 from 10am-6pm
McCormick Tribune Center

This conference, organized by Visiting Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History Christopher Pinney, explores the strangely limited scope of Art History's 'map.' Its cartography is in the course of being democratized. But this conference poses the following: what if instead of attending to territorial ‘gaps’, or demanding that ‘other’ art be admitted into the halls of modernism, we were to ask different kinds of conceptual questions about Art History’s epistemology?

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Friday 23rd May
3:15 Introductory comments by Christopher Pinney (Northwestern)
3:30 Saloni Mathur (UCLA) “Belonging to Modernism”
4:15 Fred Bohrer (Hood College) “What is Not to Be Seen in Persia: Iran, Photography and Boundaries of Representation”
5:00-5:30 coffee break
5:30pm Keynote speaker: Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard) TBA
6:45 reception

Saturday 24th May 2008
9:30 Clare Harris (Oxford) “The Travelling Toolbox:  Fluidity, Fixity and the Multiple Locations of Tibetan Culture”
10:15 Michael Rowlands (UCL) “Africa on Display: Curating postcolonial pasts in West Africa”
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30 Allen Roberts (UCLA) “When Bad Art is Good Enough: Cross-Cultural Musings About Images of Saint Fabiola, Cheikh Amadou Bamba, and Shirdi Sai Baba”
12:15 Kajri Jain (University of Toronto) “The Problem of Religion”
1:00-2:00 lunch
2:00 Stephen Eisenman (Northwestern) "Three Criteria for Inclusion (or Exclusion) in a new, World History of Art"
2:45 Stanley K. Abe (Duke) “Locating World Art”
3:30-4:00 coffee break
4:00 Keynote Speaker: Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago) “Belatedness as Opportunity”
5:15 concluding discussion
5:30 reception

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