Events at: Lasserre Building, Room 104

12th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium

Grant Arnold, University of British Columbia, “Ciphers of Sexuality: Prudence Heward’s Hester and Nordicity in the Canadian Landscape” Amelia Rauser, Northwestern University, “‘O English Liberty!: A Crisis in National Ideology and the War with the American Colonies” Lynn Ruscheinsky, University of British Columbia, “Re-Visioning the past: Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan […]

Paul McCarthy — Abjection, Violence and the Media

JCI Lecture Series 1995 – 1996; The Violent Image Paul McCarthy, L.A Artist, will talk about his work which deals with “Abjection, Violence and the Media” Lecture presented with the assistance if The Canada council and Te Morris & Helen Belkein Art Gallery, UBC. Coordinated by Serge Guilbaut, Ken Lum and Scott Watson

17th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium

Seducing the Moment: Nostalgia and the Politics of Making History Monika Kin Gagnon, Keynote Speaker Simon Fraser University, Communications, “Disney’s Pocahontas as Bodyscape” Irene Fatsea, MIT, Architectural History, “Panorama or a work of Art? The Archaelogical View of the Nineteenth-Century Athens in the Service of the Nationalistic Politics of the Modern Greek State” James Phillips, […]

Thomas Cummins — Terror in the New World: The Coming of Hell in Paradise after October 9th 1492

TERROR – THE SERIES Thomas Cummins is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art, Harvard University. With a doctorate from UCLA, he has made a career of finding and interpreting objects that hold the key to a fuller understanding of the encounter between native peoples and their Spanish conquerors. Cummins publications […]