2007-2008 Colloquium Schedule

Fridays at 3:30 sharp

Rich Seminar Room, Jaffe Building, University of Pennsylvania

September

14 .  Lothar Haselberger, Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Professor of History of Art (Greek, Roman and Etruscan Art and Architecture), University of Pennsylvania, “EXACTLY CORRESPONDING – Virtual spolia from Athens in Philadelphia”

21 .  No colloquium – Observance of Yom Kippur

28 .  No colloquium


October

5 .  Karen Beckman, Jaffe Associate Professor of History of Art (Cinema and Modern Media), University of Pennsylvania, “Photographic Messages from Iraq: M. Ho and Roland Barthes”

12 .  No colloquium - Fall Break     

19 .  Carl Strehlke, Adjunct Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Recent Research on Slavery and the Renaissance World”

26 .  Dissertation Colloquium:
Alison Chang, “Beyond the Body: The Female Nude in Edvard Munch’s Late Work, 1912-1944”


November

2 .  Michael Leja, Professor of History of Art (American Art), University of Pennsylvania, “Winslow Homer, the Composite Image, and the Industrial Production of Pictures”

9 .  Dissertation Colloquium:
Isabel Suchanek, “Redon, Color, and Vision in the Nineteenth Century”

16 .  No colloquium – Mark Mitchell Seminar, PMA

23 .  No colloquium – Thanksgiving

30 .  Dissertation Colloquium:
Beth Citron, “The City as Canvas: Five Exemplary Artists and Bombay, 1965-1995”


December

7 .  Amy Fruend, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, “The Portrait Business in Revolutionary France”


January

18 .  Anthony Raynsford, Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn Humanities Forum, "Modernism and the Archaic City: Framing an Idea of Authentic Urban Experience, 1930-1960"

25 .  Ann Matter, William R. Kenan Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, “The Iconography of the Song of Songs in the Biblia Pauperum”

February

1 .  Dissertation Colloquium:
Gregory Tentler, “Without Expensive Transport and the Bother of Customs: Piero Manzoni and the Birth of Italian Conceptual Art”

8 .  Dissertation Colloquium:
Pushkar Sohoni, “Local Idioms and Global Designs: Architecture of the Nizam Shahs”

15 .  Brian Rose, Prichard Professor of Archaeology (Classical Studies and History of Art), University of Pennsylvania, “Reconsidering the Origins of Roman Veristic Portraiture”

22 .  No Colloqium -- CAA

29 .  No Colloqium -- Vito Acconci lecture in room B1, Meyerson Hall


March

7 .  No Colloqium -- Spring Break

14 .  No Colloqium -- Spring Break

21 .  Michael Cole, Associate Professor of History of Art (Southern Rennaissance and Baroque Art), University of Pennsylvania, “Florence Under Erasure, ca. 1600”

28 .  Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Associate Professor of History of Art (American and African American Art), “Topsy at the Dressing Table: Apocryphal Images and Uncle Tom's Cabin”

April

4 .  No Colloqium -- PMA Graduate Symposium

11 .  Dissertation Colloquium:
Jeehyun Lee, “The Gaze of the Other: Reconsidering the International Dialogue between France and Japan, 1880-1910”

18.  Dissertation Colloquium:
Yael Rice, "Between the Brush and the Pen: Describing and Inscribing Paintings at the Mughal Court, 1555-1625."

25 .  Dissertation Colloquium:
Mandavi Mehta, “The Mouse who would be King: Innovating Tradition in the State of Chamba - 15th to 17th c. AD”

2006-2007 Colloquium Archive

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