Conference Program

9:00–9:30 AM: Sever Hall Room 113

Opening Presentation:

Speakers:

Sarah Ganz Blythe (Harvard Art Museums)
Joseph Koerner (Harvard History of Art and Architecture)
Felipe Pereda (Harvard History of Art and Architecture)

9:30–11:15 AM: Sever Hall Room 113

PANEL #1. Educating the Eyes. The Place of Art History in the University

Chair: Robin Kelsey (Harvard Dept. of History of Art and Architecture)
Moderator: Peter Galison (Harvard Dept. of History of Science)

Speakers:

Steven Nelson (University of California, Los Angeles Emeritus): Seeing Black?
Pamela Lee (Yale University)
Yve-Alain Bois (Princeton Institute of Advanced Study Emeritus): The Open Space of the Graduate Seminar
David Joselit (Harvard Dept. of Art, Film, and Visual Studies)

11:15–11:30 AM: Sever Hall

Coffee Break: Enjoy some Refreshments in the HAA 4th Floor Living Room

11:30–12:30 PM: 485 Broadway, 4th Floor

Interludes are broadcasted from their live sessions in the museum’s Art Study Center and Galleries. Additional events will be available from the museum and throughout Harvard.

Interlude #1: Narcissus Draws

Speaker: Rosalind Krauss (Columbia University)

Introduced by: Harmon Siegel

Interlude #2

Speaker: Aden Kumler (University of Basel)

Introduced by: Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard Dept. of History of Art and Architecture)

12:30–1:30 PM:

Intermission for Lunch: A list of suggested dining establishments can be found below.

1:45–2:45 PM: 485 Broadway, 4th Floor

Interludes broadcasted from their live sessions in the museum’s Art Study Center and Galleries. Additional events will be available from the museum and throughout Harvard.

Interlude #3: The Museum Without Walls

Speaker: Glenn Lowry (Museum of Modern Art)

Introduced by: Luci Williams, Jess Chen, Khushi Nansi (HAA Graduate Students)

Interlude #4:

Speaker: Massumeh Farhad (Freer Gallery)

Introduced by: David Roxburgh (Harvard Dept. of History of Art and Architecture)

3:00–4:45 PM: Sever Hall Room 113

PANEL #2: Inclusions & Exclusions: Testing the Discipline.

Chair: Margaret Carroll (Wellesley College Emerita)
Respondent: Nancy S. Steinhardt (University of Pennsylvania)
Moderators: Suzanne Blier (Harvard Dept. of History of Art and Architecture)

Speakers:

Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California, Los Angeles)
Ana Pulido Rull (University of Arkansas)
Ruth Phillips (Carleton University): Points of Departure and Return: Historicism and Presentism in Native American Art History
Meredith Martin (New York University): A Counter-History of 18th-C. French Art

4:45-5:00 PM: Sever Hall

Coffee Break: Enjoy some Refreshments in the HAA 4th Floor Living Room

5:00-6:45 PM: Sever Hall Room 113

ROUND-TABLE: “The Artist and the Critic.”

Chair: Joseph Koerner (Harvard Dept. of History of Art and Architecture)

Participants:

Margaret Livingstone (Harvard Medical School)
Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times)
Jordan Kantor (California College for the Arts)
Johanna Drucker (University of California, Los Angeles)

7:00–9:00 PM: Loeb House

Join us for a celebratory reception at the Harvard Faculty Club’s Loeb House.

9:00–10:45 AM: Sever Hall Room 113

PANEL #3. “A Thing is Not an Image.” On Engaging with the Object.

Chair: Jennifer Roberts (Harvard Dept. of History of Art and Architecture)
Moderator: Ethan Lasser (Museum of Fine Arts Boston), Angela Chang (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies)

Speakers:

Cammy Brothers (Northeastern)
Andrew Hamilton (Art Institute of Chicago)
Christopher Wood (New York University)
Akili Tommasino (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

10:45–11:00 AM: 485 Broadway, 4th Floor

Coffee Break: Enjoy some Refreshments in the HAA 4th Floor Living Room.

11:00–12:00 PM: 485 Broadway, 4th Floor

Interludes broadcasted from their live sessions in the museum’s Art Study Center and Galleries. Additional events will be available from the museum and throughout Harvard.

Interlude #5: Revisiting Cosimo Tura’s Adoration of the Magi After 69 Years

Speaker: Svetlana Alpers (New York University)

Presented by: Joachim Homann (Harvard Art Museums)

Moderated by: Jiwon Lee, Byron Otis (HAA graduate students)

Interlude #6

Speaker: Rachel Saunders (Princeton University)

Presented by: Melissa McCormick (Harvard Dept. of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations)

12:00–1:00 PM:

Intermission for Lunch: A list of suggested dining establishments can be found below.

1:15–3:00 PM: Sever Hall Room 113

PANEL #4. The Museum & the University

Chair: Caroline Jones (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Moderator: Horace Ballard (Harvard Art Museums)

Speakers:

Jonathan Bober
Michelle Kuo (Museum of Modern Art)
Jessica Levin Martínez (Cornell University Art Museum)
David Pullins (Metropolitan Museum of Art): “Cards on the Table“

3:00–3:30 PM: Sever Hall Room 113

Concluding Conversation

Moderator: Alina Payne (Harvard I Tatti, Harvard Dept. of History of Art and Architecture)

Conference Program