2007, April 13-14 (KU)
TITLE: An Interdisciplinary Odyssey: Art History in the Twenty-First Century
KEYNOTE: Dr. Marcia Brennan, Associate Professor of Art History, Rice University

2006, March 11 (MU)
TITLE: Urbs et Rus: Exploring Aspects of the Urban and Rural
KEYNOTE: Dr. Susan Alcock, Director of the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, "How to Move from Country to City (and back) Terra Incognita"

2005, April 9 (KU)
TITLE: Encounters and Intersections: Meeting Points in Art History
KEYNOTE: Dr. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University, "Art and Disaster in Japan: Picturing the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923"

2004, March 6 (MU)
TITLE: Exploring Boundaries: Concepts of the Liminal in Art & Archaeology
KEYNOTE: Dr. Nancy Locke, Pennsylvania State University, "Lost in (Liminal) Space"

2003, March 7-8 (KU)
TITLE: Composing Identity: Art and the Constructions of Being
KEYNOTE: Prof. Carol Ockman, Williams College, "Feminist Agendas: Ann Sutherland Harris' and Linda Nochlin's Women Artists, 1550-1950 25 Years Later"

2002, March 16 (MU)
TITLE: Somatic Art: Attitudes Toward the Body
KEYNOTE: Prof. Erika Doss, University of Colorado at Boulder, "American Art and Religion in the 20th Century: Rethinking the Modernist Divide"

2001, March 3 (KU)
TITLE: The Politics of Art Making: Interrogating Power/Courting Authority
KEYNOTE: Dr. Joanna Frueh, University of Nevada, Reno, "A History of Chocolate, Including Action Heroes and Fairy Men"

2000, March 11 (MU)
TITLE: Utopias, Dystopias: The Pursuit of Perfection And Falls From Grace
KEYNOTE: Carol Grove, Independent Scholar: "An Island, the 'Hindoo' Pagoda, and Carpet Bedding: The Death of Eclecticism at Forest Park"

1999, March 13 (KU)
TITLE: Commodities: Art to Order
KEYNOTE: Dr. Christin Mamaiya, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, "Full House: Pop Art, Domesticity and Consumer Culture"

1998, March 14 (MU)
TITLE: Ars Refecta: Art Recycled, Refused, Remade
KEYNOTE: Dr. Eric Varner, Ermory University: "Mutilation and Transformation in Roman Portraits"

1997 March 1 (KU)
TITLE: Sacred Spaces: Art and Spirituality
KEYNOTE: Dr. Wu Hung, University of Chicago, "The Prince of Jade Revisited: Object and Architecture, Body and Spirit"

1996 (MU)
TITLE: Erotica Semiotica: Sex, Gender, and the Visual Arts

1995, March 4 (KU)
TITLE: Art as a Political Tool
KEYNOTE: Dr. Cécile Whiting, University of California, Los Angeles, "Figuring Marisol's Femininities"

1994, April 9 (MU, first joint symposium)
TITLE: Visibly Risible: Humor in the Visual Arts
KEYNOTE: Dr. Jane K. Whitehead, "Towards a Definition of Etruscan Humor"

1993, March 26-27 (MU)
TITLE: Women of Vision/Visions of Women
KEYNOTE: Dr. Erica Rand, Bates College: "Diderot's Daughters and Barbie's Mother: Controlling Visions of Women"

1992, April 11 (MU)
TITLE: Fertile Ground: Considering The Past, Present and Future of the Arts in Missouri
KEYNOTE: Anthony Radich, Director, Missouri Arts Council: "The Seeds of Missouri Arts Council"