Shifting Terrain Conference Program

Friday, October 16

9:00–9:30 a.m., Registration and Coffee, McEvoy Auditorium Lobby

9:30–9:45 a.m., Welcome

  • Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • Elizabeth Glassman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Terra Foundation for American Art

9:45–10:15 a.m., Introduction

  • Cécile Whiting, Chancellor’s Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
    “The Transnational Turn in American Art History”

10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m., Things

  • Chair: Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
  • Jennifer Van Horn, Assistant Professor of Art History, George Mason University
    “Re-membering War: Prostheses and Citizenship in Revolutionary America”
  • Jennifer Jane Marshall, Associate Professor of North American Art, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    “Nashville, New York, Paris, and Nashville: William Edmondson, Mobilized and Unmoved”
  • Ethan W. Lasser, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Curator of American Art and Head of the Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums
    “The End of the ‘American Gallery’: Integrated Collections and the Future of American Art History”

12:15–1:30 p.m., Break

1:30–3:30 p.m., Positions

  • Chair: ShiPu Wang, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, University of California, Merced
  • Jacqueline Francis, Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts
    “Critical Race Art History: A Proposal”
  • Asma Naeem, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings and Time-Based Media Art, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
    “Leaving Yourself Behind: The Problem of Displacement in American Art History”
  • Rita Gonzalez, Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    “‘This Is Not America’: Positions and Politics in the Curating and Collecting of Contemporary American Art”

3:30–4:00 p.m., Coffee Break, Courtyard Café

4:00–6:00 p.m., Transactions

  • Chair: Alex J. Taylor, Terra Foundation Research Fellow in American Art, Tate
  • Melody Barnett Deusner, Assistant Professor of Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington
    “Constructing the ‘Deadly Parallel’: Paintings, Politics, and the Comparative Eye in Turn-of-the-Century Clubland”
  • Yuko Kikuchi, Reader in Art and Design History, University of the Arts London
    “Cold War Transnational Design: Russel Wright and ‘Asian Modern’”
  • Jessica L. Horton, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Delaware
    “Oil, Sheepherding, and Outer Space: Contemporary American Indian Paintings in and around Iran, 1964–1966”

Saturday, October 17

9:30–10:00 a.m., Registration and Coffee, McEvoy Auditorium Lobby

10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Networks

  • Chair: Vanessa R. Schwartz, Professor of History, Art History, and Film and Director of the Visual Studies Research Institute, University of Southern California
  • Estelle Blaschke, Researcher, Université de Lausanne
    “Creating Infrastructures: The Rise and Imaginary of Microfilm, 1920–1950”
  • Nadya Bair, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Southern California
    “New York, Paris, and the World: American Sponsorship and Magnum Photos’ Global Network”
  • Fred Turner, Professor of Communication, Stanford University 
    “The Democratic Surround and the Politics of Multimedia”

12:00–1:30 p.m., Break

1:30–2:45 p.m., Graduate Student Lightning Round

  • Moderator: Amelia Goerlitz, Fellowship and Academic Programs Manager, Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • Emily Casey, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
    “Finding the Early American Republic at Sea”
  • Elisabeth Otto, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, Université de Montréal
    “Northwest Coast Cubism: Emily Carr and Mark Tobey, 1928”
  • Davide Nerini, Ph.D. Student in the History of Culture, Université de Lausanne
    “Disseminating Lots of Photographs: Paul Vanderbilt and the Microfilming Project of the FSA-OWI Collection at the Library of Congress, 1942–1946”
  • Ellie Armon Azoulay, M.Res. Student in Exhibition Studies, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martin
    “Edith Gregor Halpert: What’s Wrong with This Picture?”
  • Sandra Salles, Ph.D. Student in Art History, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
    “Melvin Edwards’s Lynch Fragments from an Afro-Brazilian Perspective”

2:45–3:15 p.m., Coffee Break, Courtyard Café

3:15–5:00 p.m., Directions in Art History and the Place of American Art, panel discussion featuring session chairs and guest speakers

  • Moderator: Jennifer Greenhill, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Southern California
  • Johanne Lamoureux, Director of Research and Studies, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, and Professor of Art History, Université de Montréal
    “Mourning the Universal? France and the United States in the Context of Transnationalism”
  • Claudia Mattos-Avolese, Professor of Art History, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
    “Towards an Inclusive Art History: Theory and Practice”
  • Paul Chaat Smith, Associate Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
    “Rolling Network Outage”
  • Veerle Thielemans, European Academic Program Director, Terra Foundation for American Art
    “Finding a Common Ground: American Art History Seen from Abroad”

5:00–7:00 p.m., Reception, Luce Foundation Center for American Art