2005-2006 Colloquium Schedule Archive

September

16   Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
“China's Earliest Buddhist Architecture” 

23   No colloquium – Word & Image conference

30   Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania
“Regarding Visual Things”


October

7   Dissertation colloquia:

Andrew Casper, "El Greco and Italy: Art, Theory, and the Religious Image of the Late Cinquecento"     

Natasha Ruiz-Gomez, “‘Morceaux d'Amphithéâtre’: Science and the Fragment in Rodin's Sculpture”

14   No colloquium – beginning of fall break

21  Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, University of Pennsylvania
“Painting Slaves: Power and Portraiture in Colonial Maryland”

28  Michael Cole, University of Pennsylvania
“Giambologna, Susini, and the apparecchio della forza”


November

4   Esther Pasztory, Columbia University
“Thinking with Things” 

11   Dissertation colloquia:

Liliana Milkova, “Neither-Nor: ‘Sots Art’ and the Use of Photography in Soviet Underground Art, 1970-1985”     

Erika Tapp, “Colonial Modernismo: The Architecture and Urbanism of Spanish Morocco”

18  Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania
“Graeco-Persian Sarcophagi in the Troad during the Late Archaic and Classical Periods”

25   No colloquium – Thanksgiving


December

2   Stephen Petersen, Penn Humanities Forum
“Mars Attacks!: Avant-Garde Alienation and the ‘Invasion’ Paintings of Enrico Baj”

9   Esther DaCosta Meyer, Princeton University
“Imperial Vandalism and the Creation of Memory”


January

20   Lothar Haselberger, University of Pennsylvania
“Building with the Emperor: Augustus and his Helpers”

27   Lynn Ransom, Penn Humanities Forum
"Christ and the Samaritan Woman: The Emergence of a New Subject in Late Medieval
Art and Why that Matters"


February

3   Tim Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania
“Visible Thinking: Film and the Essayistic”

10   Jane Golden Heriza, University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

17   Dissertation colloquia:

Stephennie Mulder, “The Architecture of Co-existence: Shi'i Shrines and Sunni Patronage in the Medieval Levant”

Julia Walker, “Capital Building: Anxiety and Authorship in Berlin’s New Federal Architecture”

24 No colloquium – CAA


March

3   No colloquium – spring break

10   No colloquium – spring break

17   Louise Rice, New York University
"Bernini and the Pantheon Bronze"

24   No colloquium – Philadelphia Museum of Art symposium

31   Dissertation colloquia:

Melissa Kerin
"Tracing Lines of Devotion: Art and Ethno-historical Analysis of Nako's Buddhist
Wall Paintings (1400-1700)"

John Henry Rice
"Kanara Temples: Architectural Transaction on the Edge of Empire"

April

7   Kathy Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art
“From ‘Bad’ Art to ‘America's First Modern’: Finding Thomas Chambers (1808-1866)”

14   No colloquium – Passover/Good Friday

21   Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania
“Measuring the Passage of Time:  A round-up of the Jerba Archaeological Survey Project”