Schedule
1:00 p.m., Welcome
Karen Lemmey, Curator of Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum
1:15 p.m., Session I
- Portraits in Stone: Burial Monuments and Practices in Colonial Charleston
Jennifer Van Horn, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University - Bivouac of the Dead: Confederate Monuments and the Politics of Mourning
Sarah Beetham, Independent Scholar - Managing Mourning: Victim Memorials and the Volatile Politics of Grief
Erika Doss, Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
2:40 p.m., Coffee Break
3:00 p.m., Session II
- A Wall for Apricots: Dedication and Loss in Anne Truitt’s Sculptures
Miguel de Baca, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Assistant Professor of Art History, Lake Forest College - Against Nostalgia: Kerry James Marshall and the 1960s
James Meyer, Associate Curator of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art - Retro-Spectacles: On Photography and Its Fictions
Lisa Saltzman, Professor, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
5:00 p.m., Reception