Department of Art History

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

9:00am Breakfast and Welcome

9:30am Panel  1: Building a Classical Canon

“Contradictory Classicisms: Roman Expectations for Greek Ruler Portraits”
Bailey Elizabeth Barnard (Columbia University)

“Rock, Paper, Imitation: Copying, Collecting, and Imitating Latin Inscriptions in Renaissance Rome”
Mary-Evelyn Hatton Farrior (Columbia University)

“Collecting and Binding Worthy Classics: Jean Grolier’s Renaissance Library”
Steven Davis (Brown University)

11:00am Panel 2: Ancient Politics as a Mirror of Early Modern Identity

“Modern Greece? The Classical Legacy and the Enlightenment on Zakynthos”
Christopher Leo Jotischky-Hull (Brown University)

“God(dess) of War: Poetics, Androgyny, and Performance in the Image of Catherine the Great as Minerva”
Jacob Steven Bell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

“Claiming the Sun: Constructing Mexican National Identity and the Appropriation of Mexican Imagery (1790-1910)”
Emma Turner-Trujillo (University of Illinois at Chicago)

1:30pm Panel 3: Literary Fragments and Flotsam

“Francis Bacon on the Sunken Weights and Philosophical Flotsam of Antiquity”
Leon Wash (University of Chicago)

“Sestiads and Fragments: George Chapman’s Continuation of Marlowe’s Hero and Leander”
Kate Needham (Yale University)

2:30pm Panel 4: Ancient Materials and Modern Images 

“Michelangelo’s Presentation Drawing and Warburg’s Pathosformeln”
Giulia Bertoni (Columbia University)

“Roma quanta fuit ipsa ruinas docet: The Bentvueghels in Rome”
Alexis Monroe (New York University)

“‘There are tears of things’: Virgil, Relics, and Fetishes in Izabela Czartoryska’s Puławy Landscape Garden (1799-1829)”
Aleksander Musial (Princeton University)

4:00pm Round Table Discussion Hall Bjørnstad, Associate Professor of French, Indiana University Bloomington

Ellen McClure, Associate Professor, School of Literatures, University of Illinois at Chicago

Richard Neer, William B. Ogden Distinguished Professor of Art History, The University of Chicago

Larry F. Norman, Frank L. Sulzberger Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago

6:00pm  Reception at the Cochrane Woods Art Center

Presented by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Art History, with support from the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the France Center of Chicago, and the Division of the Humanities.

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