6:30 Spencer Museum of Art Student Friends party and dinner in the Central Court, 3rd floor
9:30 Breakfast in the Murphy Room, 212 Spencer Museum
10:00 Welcome address, 211 Spencer Museum
10:15-11:45
Morning Session 1, 211 Spencer Museum
Moderator: Don Sloan
Michael Tinkler, Reading Author(ity) in Theodulf of Orleans
Jen Robinson, Down with History!: The Politics of Futurist Artmaking
Anjali Nerlekar, A Look Behind the Scenes: Lola, Ballet, the Nineteenth Century and Manet
Morning Session 2, 208 Spencer Museum
Moderator: Rachel Buller
Tammy Balducci, "Behind Every Artist There’s a Penis"(?): Lynda Benglis, Sex, Gender, and Creativity
Laura VanBuren, Politics and Pride: American Follies of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Elissa Anderson, Of Harmony and Civility: Gabriel Metsu’s A Man and A Woman Seated by a Virginal
11:45-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45
Afternoon Session 1, 211 Spencer Museum
Moderator: Sarah Crawford-Parker
Terri Weissman, American Photography in the 1950s: Cold War Handmaid
Katharina Holderegger, The Sovereign Sisters: The Cemetery of the Abbesses of the Holy Trinity
in Caen (11-18th centuries)
Sheila Pinkel, A Model for the Democratization of Art
Afternoon Session 2, 208 Spencer Museum
Moderator: Rachel Buller
Irina Hans, The Politics of Feminism: The Legend of Eva Hesse
Sean Barker, Blurring the Lines: Racial and Gender Hybridity in Manet’s Baudelaire’s Mistress, Reclining
Gabrielle Mertz, Live Media
2:45-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:30
Afternoon Session 3, 211 Spencer Museum
Moderator: Don Sloan
Joonsung Yoon, Constructing the Other: Yasumasa Morimura’s Photographic Self-Portraits
Lou Morrison, Making a Living Buddha: The Case of the Seiryoji Style in Kamakura Japan
Legier Biederman, The Unexamined Gray Flannel Suit: The Early Work of Jasper Johns
Afternoon Session 4, 208 Spencer Museum
Moderator: Sarah Crawford-Parker
Maria Mijares, For My Art’s Sake: Facing off with Power
Pallavi Sharma, Re-reading Krishnalila performance and paintings of Braja bhumi
Stefanie Olson, Construction of Art/Construction of Gender
4:30-5:30 Refreshments in the Reception Room, 3rd floor, Spencer Museum with free time for museum visit
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5:30 Keynote address, Auditorium, 3rd floor, Spencer Museum
Joanna Frueh, University of Nevada, Reno
A History of Chocolate, Including Action Heroes and Fairy Men
6:30 Booksigning, 3rd floor, Central Court
Joanna Frueh will sign copies of Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love (2001)
for reviews of the book see
7:30 Dinner, Imperial Gardens
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