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Taboo: Deviance and Normativity in Art

February 9, 2018 - 10:30am to 4:00pm

Venue: University of Arizona Museum of Art

28th annual graduate symposium

The Art History Graduate Student Associate invites community members along with University of Arizona students, faculty, and staff to join us for our 28th Annual Graduate Symposium.

Graduate presentations will be held at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, and focus on the relationship between art history, the art object, and taboo from broad global and historical perspectives. Our symposium will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University, which will be held in the Center for Creative Photography following the graduate presentations.

This project has been made possible by the Graduate and Professional Student Council, School of Art, Quinn Fund, and donors to the College of Fine Arts Fund for Excellence.

This event is free and open to the public.

10:30 a.m.Opening Remarks
10:40 a.m.Nicole Lampl - MA Art History, Tulane University
"Transporting the Divine to Mortal Flesh: Gustav Climt's Depictions of Pregnancy"
11:00 a.m.Katherine Raymer - MA Art History, University of Arizona
"The Origin of Phallic Envy within the Womb"
11:20 a.m.Danielle Ezor - PhD Art History, Southern Methodist University
"From Slaughter to Menstruation: The Materiality of Parchment and the Side Wound of Christ in the Late Middle Ages"
11:40 a.m.Panel Q&A
12:00-1:30 p.m.Lunch Break
1:30 p.m.Connor Hamm - PhD Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
"Fascists Have All the Fun: Contemporary Art and Illiberalism"
1:50 p.m.Yinqing Li - PhD Art History, Theory, and Criticism, University of California, San Diego
"A Taboo Unavoidable: Nudity in Early Modern China Abstract"
2:10 p.m.Panel Q&A
Break
2:40 p.m.Xuefei Ma - PhD Art History, East Asian Studies, University of Arizona
"In the Name of Nushu - Haptic Sensation and the Transmission of Herstory in Ma Yanling's Performance Art
3:00 p.m.Mariah Briel - MA Art History, University of California, Davis
"Terra Icognita: Mapping Ignorance in the Age of Discovery"
3:20 p.m.Faezeh Faezipour - PhD Art History, University of Arizona
"Imaginary Coordinates: Balancing Political Boundaries and Crossing Invisible Lines"
3:40 p.m.Panel Q&A
5:30 p.m.Keynote Lecture by Dr. Richard Meyer
Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

This event has been made possible by donors to the College of Fine Arts Fund for Excellence.

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