Friday, November 12

3:00 p.m. Opening Remarks and Welcome

Shirley Samuels, Chair, Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies
Polly Nordstrand, Cornell University
Kristen Streahle, Cornell University

3:30 p.m. Panel 1: Resisting

Moderator: Iftikhar Dadi, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies

Maya Jiménez, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Problematizing Contact: Nineteenth-Century Colombian Artists in Paris

SooJin Lee, University of Illinois at Chicago
How to Win the Culture Game: Japanese Artists in the West

Alex Marr, University of Rochester
Forming Cheyenne Memory: the Haunting and Politics of Howling Wolf’s Prison Drawings

5:30 p.m. Keynote Address:

Rubén Gallo, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature, Princeton University
Freud in Mexico
Introduced by Maria Fernandez, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies

Reception to follow

Saturday, November 13

8:30 a.m. Morning Reception:
coffee and pastries

9:00 a.m. Panel 2: Imitation

Moderator: Claudia Lazzaro, Professor, Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies

Irene Backus, University of Chicago
Medici Porcelain: White Earthen Body

Rebecca Howard, Ohio State University
The Renaissance Hieroglyph: Humanist Aspirations
to Immortality

Anna Mecugni, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Painted Photography Reinvented: Luigi Ontani’s Travels and Collaborations in 1970s India

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. Panel 3: Appropriation

Moderator: Annetta Alexandridis, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies

Elizabeth Emrich, Cornell University
Modernity through Experimentation: Lu Xun and the Modern Chinese Woodcut Movement

Leif Fairfield, University of Cincinnati
Advance and Retreat: Atsuko Tanaka’s Exploration of Unknown Beauty

Ashley Verplank McClelland, University of Washington
The Art of Adaptation: Tlingit Dagger Construction in the Post-contact Era

12:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. Panel 4: Creating Distance(?)

Moderator: Jolene Rickard, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies

Chelsea Bruner, Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Seventh Regiment Armory: Resistance, Authority, and Civil (Dis)order in
Nineteenth-Century New York

Frances Gallart-Marques, Cornell University
Ugly Girls with Fancy Hairdos: Appropriation and Resistance in the Coroplastic Art of Roman Sardis

Ikuyo Nakagawa, Graduate Center, City University of New York
(Not) Picturing Indigenous Life: Tsuguharu Foujita in the Americas

3:00 p.m. Closing Remarks

Polly Nordstrand, Cornell University
Kristen Streahle, Cornell University

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