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