The 39th annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium - November 11-12, 2004, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

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Thursday, November 11, 2004, 7:00pm:

Keynote Lecture: “The Lottery of the Sea,” by Allan Sekula; reception to follow.

Allan Sekula, Dear Bill Gates, 1999; cibachrome

Friday, November 12, 2004:

9:30am – 9:45am
Welcome by Prof. Cecelia F. Klein, UCLA Art History Dept. Chair

9:45am – 10:45am: Subtle Strategies: Confronting Visual Histories

Litia Perta (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
Perceiving Play: Deliberate Distraction; Willful Blindness, Evidentiary Erasure

David Michael Perez (Visual Cultures, Goldsmith's College, London)
“The Relational Politics of the Sonic Field”

11:00am – 12:30pm: Subtle Exposure: Locating the Spectacular in Sights and Sites

Renu Cappelli (Performance Studies, UC Berkeley)
“Schlong Journeys and The Great White Way: William Pope.L's spectacular masculinity”

Eva Friedberg (Visual Studies, UC Irvine)
“Welcome to Pershing Square: Exclusion by Design in L.A.'s Public Center”

Thomas Stubblefield (Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago)
“Deleuze and the Cinema of Decay: Bill Morrison’s Decasia”

12:20pm – 2:00pm
Lunch

2:00pm – 4:00pm: Subtle Networks: Challenging Patterns of Patronage

Christopher de Fay (Art History, University of Michigan)
“Refraction and Diffusion:  Robert Irwin’s Interrogation of Medium in the 1960s”

Elisa Foster (Art History, Southern Methodist University)
“The Writing on the Walls: The Presence of Arabic Inscription in the Synagogue of El Tránsito.”

Wen-shing Chou (Art History, UC Berkeley)
“Constructing China in Eighteenth-Century Sicily”

Kim Richter (Art History, UCLA)
“The Meaning and Function of Incised Skin Motifs on Epiclassic/Early Postclassic Huastec Sculpture”

4:00pm – 5:45pm: Subtle Sexuality: Manipulating Gender Politics

Gianna Carotenuto (Art History, UCLA)
“Domesticating the Harem: The Zenana Photographs of Raja Lala Deen Dayal”

Wendy Weise (English Literature, University of Arizona) & Peter Fine (Studio Arts, University of Arizona)
“Renaissance Poetics and Modern Visual Communication - Or, How did Petrarch get into my Chanel?”

Stacy Berenguel (Art History, University of New Mexico)
“‘Outing’ the Hombre Nuevo: Institutionalized Homophobia, Subversion, and Raul Martinez's Isla 70”

5:45pm – 6:00pm: Closing Comments