27th Annual Graduate Student Symposium Keynote Speaker Announced

Dr. Alexander Nemerov, Ph.D.Yale University, has been announced as the 27th Annual Graduate Student Symposium speaker. Nemerov will open the symposium with “Art and Daily Life: A Case from 1863” on October 23, 2009 at 5:30 in Room 249.

Nemerov specializes in American art from the 18th to the mid-twentieth century. His lecture is related to his forthcoming (2010) book Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War, which looks at the war and Lincoln’s presidency through the lens of a single night’s performance of Macbeth. 
Nemerov has also published Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures (2005), on the filmmaker’s horror films of the 1940s, The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824 (1999), and Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America (1995). He is also working on a study of the artistic relationship between his father, noted poet Howard Nemerov, and his aunt, the equally famous photographer Diane Arbus.

Papers will be presented on a variety of topics by graduate students visiting from ten universities nationwide. Oct. 23, 3:00 PM, and Oct. 24, 9:30 AM. All are welcome to attend. 

Friday afternoon session, October 23 (3:00-5:00): Contemporary Art

Christina Albu, University of Pittsburgh, “Between Expanded Consciousness and Expanded Bodies: Affective Relationality to Invisible Architecture”
Corey Dzenko, University of New Mexico, “Everyman's Actions: The White Male Body in Performance Photographs”
Nicole Mahan, Florida State University, “Krzysztof Wodiczko's If You See Something…: An Alternative Monument in the Post-9/11 Moment”
Kori Lisa Yee Litt, Columbia University, “Meaningless Language with Meaningful Words: Buddhism and the Art of Xu Bing”

Saturday morning session , October 24 (9:30-11:30):  European Art, 17th-19th Centuries

Benjamin Eldredge, Rutgers University, “Narrative, Figure, and Landscape in Poussin's Roads: Landscape with a Man Washing His Feet in A Fountain and Landscape with a Roman Road”
Segundo Fernandez, Florida State University, “Kauffman and Reynolds: Infant Academy Unmasked”
Maureen Warren, Northwestern University, “Hogarth's Four Stages of Cruelty and Moral Blindness”
Maria D’Anniballe, University of Pittsburgh, “Architectural Heritage and Tourist Industry in Nineteenth-Century Verona: The Refashioning of the City’s Medieval Monuments”

Saturday afternoon session, October 24 (1:00-3:00): European and American Art, 19th Century

Carmen L. McCann, Penn State University, “More than Just an Allegory: Life and Death in Eugene Delacroix's Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi”
Beth Fadeley, University of South Carolina, “Hiram Powers's Greek Slave and the Cultural Construction of Race”
Laura Turner Igoe, Temple University, “All Things Perish: Joseph Biays Ord and the Plight of Antebellum American Still Life Painting”
Elizabeth Athens, Yale University, “‘The Limits of Medieval Guidance’: Time and Artistic Subjectivity in American Pre-Raphaelism”

Information

For more information, please contact Prof. Karen Bearor, symposium coordinator, kbearor@fsu.edu