OBJECTS IN MOTION: ART AND MATERIAL CULTURE ACROSS COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA
An International Symposium at the University of Delaware
Program
Friday, April 25, 2008
Genevieve W. Gore Recital Hall, Louise & David Roselle Center for the Arts, University of Delaware
1:00-2:00
Registration
2:00-2:30
Welcome remarks
Havidán Rodríguez, Vice-Provost, Academic Affairs and International Programs
Tom Apple, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Bernard Herman, Chair, Department of Art History
Wendy Bellion and Mónica Domínguez Torres, Department of Art History
2:30-4:30
Session I: Place
Moderator: Mónica Domínguez Torres, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
"Moteuczoma and Mexico City: Imperial Images in the Colonial City"
Barbara E. Mundy (abstract)
Department of Art History and Music
Fordham University
"Archaeology and the Baroque in New France"
Marcel Moussette
Centre interuniversitaire d'études sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions
Université Laval
"The Architectures of Black Identity: Buildings, Slavery, and Freedom in the Early American South and the Caribbean"
Louis P. Nelson (abstract)
Department of Architectural History
The University of Virginia
Respondent: Lu Ann De Cunzo, Department of Anthropology, Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware
4:30-5:00
Coffee break
5:00-6:30
Keynote address
"Close Concerns and Distant Places"
Clara Bargellini
Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Auditorium, John M. Clayton Hall Conference Center, University of Delaware
8:30-9:00
Coffee and registration
9:00-12:00
Session II: Motion
Moderator: Deborah C. Andrews, Department of English, Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware
"Motion/Emotion: Touching Images from New Spain to Europe"
Alessandra Russo
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Columbia University
"Objects in Motion, Motion in Objects: Narrative, Visual Culture, and Imperial Relations in the Eighteenth-Century Pacific World"
JoAnne Mancini (abstract)
Department of History
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
"French Colonial Louisiana and a World of Things"
Sophie White (abstract)
Department of American Studies
University of Notre Dame
"The Cartographic Vade-Mecum: The Spatial Work of Portable Maps"
Martin Brückner (abstract)
Department of English
University of Delaware
Respondent: Ikem S. Okoye, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
12:00-2:00
Lunch break
2:00-4:30
Session III: Identity
Moderator: Wendy Bellion, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
"Christian-Indigenous Art in Sixteenth-Century New Spain: The Decades of Programmatic Syncretism"
Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo
Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
"On Being German in British America: The Materiality of Identity Aesthetics"
Bernard L. Herman
Department of Art History
University of Delaware
"'The Costume of his Nation': Joseph Brant's Masquerades"
Elizabeth Hutchinson (abstract)
Department of Art History
Columbia University/Barnard College
Respondent: J. Ritchie Garrison, Department of History, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
4:30-4:45
Coffee break (Clayton Hall, Room 119)
4:45-6:00
Closing address
"From Cannons to Canons: Authenticity, Hybridity and Eighteenth-Century Military Collectors of Native North American Art"
Ruth B. Phillips
Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture
Carleton University
6:00-8:00
Closing reception (Clayton Hall, Room 120)
Organized by Professors Wendy Bellion and Mónica Domínguez Torres, Department of Art History, University of Delaware, with the assistance of the student symposium committee: David Amott, Sarah Beetham, Eliza Butler, Eric Gollanek, Isabelle Havet, Lynley Herbert, Kristin Huxta, Sarah Jones, Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, Anna O. Marley, Rachel Schwartz, Collen Terry, Ted Triandos, Catherine Walsh, Corina Weidinger, Cara Zimmerman.