Alumni Symposium
Friday and Saturday, October 28-29, 2011

Preliminary Program (Download PDF)

Friday, October 28, 2011

12:00-1:15: Welcome Lunch (University Club)

1:30-3:15: Tours of the New Chazen Wing by art history faculty and students

3:15-4:30: Round-Table Discussion on New Directions in Curatorial Practice and the University Art Museum

Moderator: Ann Smart Martin (Stanley and Polly Stone Professor of Art History, Director of Material Culture Program, UW-Madison)

• Nichole Bridges (Associate Curator for African Art, Department Head for the Arts of Africa, The Americas, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Baltimore Museum of Art)

• Sarah B. Kianovsky (Curator of the Collection, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums)

• Karen Levitov (Associate Curator, The Jewish Museum, New York)

• Joann Moser (Senior Curator of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC)

• Brady Roberts (Chief Curator, Milwaukee Art Museum)

5:00-6:30: Public Lecture: Peter Galassi, Director Emeritus, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York: "John Szarkowski, His Photography and Curatorial Practice"

7:00-9:30: Alumni Dinner, Glass Pavilion, Pyle Center (by subscription)

Saturday, October 29, 2011

9:00-12:15: Art History as a Window on Global Culture: New Research

9:00-9:15: Introductory Remarks: Thomas Dale (Chair and Professor of Art History, UW-Madison)

Moderator: Prof. Jill Casid

9:15-9:45: Lauren Kroiz (Assistant Professor of Art History, UW-Madison), "Oscar Hagen, the German Immigrant Experience and the Shaping of American Art History at UW-Madison"

9:45-10:15: Richard Sundt (Associate Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Oregon, Eugene), "From Medieval Europe to Maori New Zealand: Coincidences in Architectural Form and Ritual Use"

10:15-10:45: Tanya Tiffany (Associate Professor of Art History, UW-Milwaukee),"Light, Shade, and (Skin) Color: Diego Velázquez's Supper at Emmaus."

10:45-11:00: BREAK

Moderator: Gail Geiger

11:00-11:30: Vivien Fryd (Chair and Professor of Art History, Vanderbilt University), "Ringgold's Slave Rape Story Quilt: Representing Transgenerational Sexual Trauma."

11:30-12:00: Melanie Herzog (Professor of Art History, Edgewood College, Madison), "Suturing gaps in the weave: Flo Oy Wong's re-collections of memory across cultural and geographical spaces."

12:00-12:30: Joanna Inglot (Associate Professor and Edith M. Kelso Chair of Art History, Maclester College, Saint Paul MN), Topic on Turkish Contemporary Art

12:30-2:00 Lunch Break (on your own)

2:15-3:15: Roundtable: Careers in Art history, visual culture & material culture beyond the Academy

Moderator: Prof. Suzy Buenger

• Thomas De Doncker (Owner, Thomas de Doncker Fine Arts, Chicago)

• Kay Kallos (Public Art Program Manager, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs)

• Lyn Korenic (Director, Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Emily Pfotenhauer (Wisconsin Heritage Online; Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database Project)

• Christine Sundt (Editor, Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, University of Oregon; jeweler; former curator of Visual Resources, University of Oregon, Eugene)

3:30-5:30: New Research in Art History, Material and Visual Culture by Ph.D. Candidates at UW-Madison

Moderator: Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall

5:30-7:30: Closing Reception