GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

The Graduate Symposium constitutes the keystone academic event of each student’s final semester. All students in their second year deliver a paper at the Symposium and participate in its proceedings. Papers are based on a Qualifying Paper (QP) undertaken during a student’s course of study in the Program and further developed over a sequence of dry runs that precede the Symposium. The Symposium falls on graduation weekend and constitutes a significant event for the art history community in Williamstown.

Program of the Seventeenth Annual Spring Symposium

The Class of 2012

Friday, June 1

 
Morning Session
9:15–11:00

Introductory Remarks, Marc Gotlieb, Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art

ALAN HIRSCH   War News from Mexico and the Art of Oversight (Introduction, Michael J. Lewis, Williams College)

ZOE SAMELS   Picturing Wonder: Thomas Moran in Yellowstone (Introduction, Marc Simpson, Graduate Program)

ASHLEY LAZEVNICK The Soul in the Machine: The Case of Charles Sheeler and His Classic Landscape (Introduction, Bernie Rhie, Williams College)

Discussion moderated by Michael J. Lewis

Coffee in the Clark Café   11:00–11:30



11:30–1:00

CAITLIN CONDELL   Man Ray, Cubism, and the Invention of the Rayograph (Introduction, Charles W. "Mark" Haxthausen, Williams College)

ED LESSARD   History in Flux, Sometime around 1962 (Introduction, Michael Holly, The Clark)

ALEXANDRA NEMEROV   Broken Reflections of Herself and Then Some: Dara Birnbaum's Mirroring (Introduction, Susan Cross, MASS MoCA)

Discussion moderated by Michael Holly

Lunch   1:00–2:15
Speakers and Guests
The Clark Penthouse

Afternoon Session
2:15-3:45

JAMES PILGRIM   Michelangelo's Pièta in Ruins (Introduction, Stefanie Solum, Williams College)

JAIMEE COMSTOCK-SKIPP   Five Wise Men: Edmund Dulac, W.B. Yeats, and the Magi (Introduction, Marc Gotlieb)

LUCIE STEINBERG   Redemption Undone in the Work of Dario Robleto (Introduction, Mark Reinhardt, Williams College)

Discussion moderated by Stefanie Solum

Coffee in the Clark Café   3:45-4:15



4:15–5:45

JESSE FEIMAN    Connoisseurship and Classification: The Taxonomy of Art in Bartsch's The Painter Printmaker (Introduction, Jay Clarke, The Clark)

SUSANNAH E. BLAIR   The Architecture of Pathos: Pergamon in Berlin (Introduction, Elizabeth McGowan, Williams College)

CHRISTIANNA BONIN    The Haus That Cannot Be: Reconstructing History on the Bauhaus Site (Introduction, Michael J. Lewis)

Discussion moderated by Christina Olsen, Williams College Museum of Art
Reception   6:15–7:30
Williams College Museum of Art
Atrium