IU Art History - 21st Annual Graduate Student Symposium

Departed: Memory, Absence, and Devotion in Art History and Visual Culture
Saturday, March 26th
9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

featuring noted art historian, Dr. Erika Doss, Professor of American Studies at Notre Dame, as our keynote speaker! Her talk is titled “Memorial Mania: Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America.”

We will also be hosting 6 graduate student speakers from across the U.S. to share their varied, stimulating interpretations of this topic. Death, skeletons, ghosts, gravestones, revolt imagery, and memories of the past will all be discussed!

Please contact Christiane Wisehart at cwisehar@indiana.edu if you have any questions. The Symposium schedule is included below:

MORNING SESSION:

9:00: Breakfast Reception outside Room 102

9:30: Opening Remarks, Co-President, Art History Association

9:45: Brenna Graham, Remembering Tragedy and Grief: The Death of Francesca Pitti Tornabuoni

10:15: Valerie C. Palazzolo, Death and the Physician: Andreas Vesalius’ Animated Skeletons as Sites of Memorialization

10:45: Matthew Lincoln, Histories of Revolt in the Church Interior Paintings of Emanuel de Witte

11:15: Panel Discussion led by Dr. Sarah Burns

12:00: Lunch at SoFA Gallery

AFTERNOON SESSION:

1:30: Susan Lockwood, A House Divided: The Evolution of Jewish Gravestone Motifs: Contrasts and Similarities in the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Contexts

2:00: Lucy K. H. Traverse, From the Gossamer to the Grotesque: Materializing Spirits and Re-membering the Dead In Fin-de-siècle Ectoplasm Photography

2:30: Amanda Valla Dilla, Redefining Progress Through Fragments of the Past: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Jigsaw Puzzles, 1987-1992

3:00: Panel Discussion led by Dr.Sarah Burns

4:00: Dr.Erika Doss, Keynote Lecture: Memorial Mania: Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America

5:30: Closing Remarks, Co-President, Art History Association

Reception: 6:00 pm in the Federal Room at the Indiana Memorial Union