Art History Symposium, Saturday, April 12th

Hello!
You are cordially invited to the Art History Association's 14th Annual Symposium on Saturday, April 12th, hosted by San Jose State University. We welcome any interested faculty, students, friends, and family and would be delighted to meet any visitors from other schools who are able to attend. We are pleased announce Dr. Michael Shanks of Stanford University as our keynote speaker.

Light breakfast and coffee will be available as well as a mid-day lunch spread. We respectfully ask for a donation of five dollars for lunch. (This donation may be made at the buffet table.) Detailed information concerning scheduling and parking may be found below. Please direct any questions to Stacy Schwartz at StacyRSchwartz@gmail.com or Camille Porter at camillep@camilleporter.com. If possible, please RSVP to this invitation so we can best accommodate those who plan to stay for lunch. We look forward to meeting you!


Location:
Auditorium of the Engineering Building, SJSU campus. For campus map, please see http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/visiting/campus_maps/#main_campus


Parking:
A fee of $5 per weekend day is charged at the campus parking garages. We also recommend parking at the large garage on the corner of San Fernando and 4th Streets, across San Fernando from the King Library and just a short walk to the Auditorium. There are two large parking garages on Third and Second Streets between San Carlos and San Fernando Streets. Please see the Campus Parking Services website at http://www.sjsu.edu/parking/index.html for further information.

Symposium Schedule:

9:30 - 10:00 AM = Noshes and Coffee, Registration

10:00 - 10:20 = Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:20 - 10:50 = Mitra Abbaspour, CUNY Graduate Center,
“Madness as Exile, Exile as Madness: Shirin Neshat’s Adaptation of Women Without Men”

10:50 - 11:20 = Natalie Rico, San Francisco State University,
“The Fifth Bienal of the Visual Arts of the Central American Isthmus”

11:20 - 11:50 = Eileen Jungwirth, Sonoma State University,
“Conflicting Images of Women in Late 19th Century American Art”

11:50 - 12:20 = Jenny de la Cruz, San Jose State University,
“The Communication of Political and Contemporary Issues Through the Interpretation of Signs in Works by Camille Rose Garcia”

12:20 - 1:20 = Lunch

1:30 - 2:15 = KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Michael Shanks, Professor of Classics and Director of the Metamedia Lab and Humanities Lab, Stanford University

2:15 - 2:45 = Katie Hanson, CUNY Graduate Center,
“Lights, Clouds, Inaction: Imaging Creativity in French Neo-Classical Painting”

2:45 - 3:15 = Mark Rumsey, Ferris State University,
“Art, Economics, and Valuation”

3:15 - 3:45 = Karen Noble, San Diego State University,
“Re-Viewing Art: Ad Reinhardt’s Critical Cartoons”

3:45 - 4:15 = Jared Ledesma, San Francisco State University,
“A Love Story Manifested Within Minimalist Art”

4:15 = Closing Remarks