Monday, March 2, 2015

Final Public Events Schedule Announced

RHETORICS and AESTHETIC of MEMORY, RASC/a Graduate Symposium 2015
Department of Art History, Southern Methodist University

FRIDAY MARCH 6, 2015

10:30 am – Keynote speaker – Prof. Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

1 pmPANEL 1:
Trauma and Remembrance (Prof. Charles Hatfield)
            -Naomi Taub, “Trauma and Timescapes in Aharon Appelfeld’s The Iron Tracks
            -Katja D. Rivera, “Remembering Mexico: Felipe Ehrenberg’s Artists’ Books”

3 pmPANEL 2: The Construction of Memory (Prof. Noah Simblist)
            -Natalie Dupêcher, “’Like Clocks’: Keeping in Cy Twombly’s Morocco Paintings”
            -Peter Boudreau, “...where grass will never grow: The Alhambra, Remembrance, and a                               Question of Heritage”
            -Lucy McGuigan, “Haunted Vision: Phantasmic Scenes of Iconoclasm in Paintings of                               Collectors’ Cabinets

SATURDAY MARCH 7, 2015

10:30 amPANEL 3: The Body as Bearer of Memory (Prof. Bea Balanta) 
            -Joe Hartman, “La República: Urban Memories and Giant Women in the Cuban Republic”
            -Deirdre Madeleine Smith, “Death as Catalysis: Adrian Piper’s What Will Become of Me
            -Jessica Wong Camhi, “’The Dreadful Story of Disease Evil in Human Life:’ History and                         Reception of Eugenics in New Germany

1:30 pmPANEL 4: Collective Memories and the Nation State (Prof. Janis Bergman-Carton) 
            -Linnea West, “The Monuments of Skopje 2014: Constructing Macedonian National Identity”
            -Yuan-Ta Hsu, “Hsiang chou and Chinese Nationalism in Lang Jing-Shan’s Composite                             Picture
            -Casey Kane Monahan, “Appropriated Antiquity: An Emblem of Nostalgia and Memory in                       Britain”

3:30 pm PANEL 5: Memorials/Counter-Memorials (Prof. Eric Stryker)
            -Nikki Georgopulos, “Beyond the Counter-Monument: Toward a New Mnemonic Art”
            -Anna Bernardi, “The Politics Behind Unbuilt Memory: Memorial to the Six Million Jewish                     Martyrs, New York and ‘Topography of Terror’ Documentation Center, Berlin”
            -Erin Piñon, “Commemorating Genocide: The Armenian Khatchk’ar as National Tombstone”



 *ALL LISTED EVENTS OPEN TO PUBLIC AND LOCATED IN SMITH AUDITORIUM, MEADOWS MUSEUM.

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