Past Symposia
2023: [Symposium] Artefacts of Change: Visions of The Environment and Disruptions. Keynote speaker: Dr Sugaga Ray, University of California, Berkeley.
2022: Translating Home: Views From the Diaspora. Keynote speaker: Emily Hue, University of California, Riverside
2021: Mnemonic Aesthetics: Memory and Trauma in Art. Keynote speakers: Cheryl Finley, Spelman College, “Black Art Futures,” and Deborah Willis, New York University, “The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship”
2020: Constructed Realities: Urban Identities & Landscape Representations. Keynote speaker: Madhuri Desai, Penn State University, “Between Region and Kingdom: Landscape, Politics and Architecture in Maratha Vidarbha”
2019: Visualizing Difference: The Art and Architecture of Alterity. Keynote speaker: Adrienne Childs, Independent Scholar, art historian, and curator, “Ornamental Blackness: Seeing the Black Body in European Luxury Arts”
2018: Making a Spectacle: Audience and the Art of Engagement. Keynote speaker: Bridget Alsdorf, Princeton University, “GAWKERS: Flânerie for the Masses in Fin-de-siècle France”
2017: It’s About Time: Temporality in Visual Culture. Keynote speaker: André Dombrowski, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania, “Monet’s Minutes and the Poetics of the Schedule”
2016: Dislocation, Disjuncture, Dispute. Keynote speaker: Mónica Domínguez Torres, Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art, University of Delaware, “Dislocation, Disjuncture, and Dispute in Representations of the Caribbean Pearl Trade”
2015: Figuring it Out: Bodies and the History of Art. Keynote speaker: Brooke Holmes, Professor in the Department of Classics, Princeton University “Inside and Outside the Classical Body”
2014: Languages of Art: Interactions between Art and Literature. Keynote speaker: Catriona MacLeod, University of Pennsylvania Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, “Romanticism and the Recalcitrant Matter of Sculpture.”
2013: Networks. Keynote speaker: Pablo Helguera, Visual Artists, “Performing Betweenness: The Social Network as a Medium”
2012: The Art of Travel. Keynote speaker: Christopher Atkins, Assistant Professor, CUNY Queens College and The Graduate Center “The Lure of the Local in the Dutch Golden Age”