Events at: Lasserre Building

09th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium

Robert Ballantyne, University of British Columbia, “Culture, Politics and the body in Native Representation” Louise A. Hitchcock, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Bronze Age Minoan Megastructure at Kato Zakro, crete: Reconsidering the Form = Function Metaphor” Robert Haywood, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Art in the Service of the Judson Church” Tim Maraun, University […]

13th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium

Sandra Seekins University of British Columbia, “Body as Opportunity: Female Flesh and Body Incarnate in Sebastiano del Piobo’s The Martyrdom of St. Agatha” Richard E. Meyer University of British Columbia, “Defiant Desires: Self-Portraiture and Sexual Identity from Paul Cadmus to Robert Mapplethorpe?” Joung Yoon Lym University of British Columbia, “Toward a Postmodern Pedagogy: Nomad in […]

The Exotic Gaze and the Mexican Appeal: Views from North America, 1930-1960

March 6 Francisco Reyes y Palma Instituto de Investigacions Estetica, Mexico City March 13 Karen Cordero UNAM, Mexico Public Lecture: “The Invention of Popular Art and the Construction of Modern Mexican Visual Culture.” Seminar: “Gender and Sexual identity in Mexican Art, 1920-1940.” March 20 Peter Wollen UCLA, Film Theory Department Public Lecture: “Fridamania” March 27 […]

14th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium

Nancy Cuthbert, University of British Columbia, “Constable’s Wiltshire: Ancient Ruins and the Modern Nation” Alice Jim, Concordia University, “Surface Readings of Postcolonial Bodies” Calvin Taplay, University of British Columbia, “Homo Mexicanus, the Forgotten Man and the State: Conflicts Surrounding Paul Strand’s Representations of Mexican Peasantry” Helen Delacretaz, University of British Columbia, “Mughal Indian and the […]

Evelyn Lincoln and David Solcan

JCI Lecture Series 1996 – 1997 Media’s Medium: The Circulation of images in Everyday Life Evelyn Lincoln: “Mantuan Women Maps 16th Century Markets’: Diana Mantuana’s Practice of Printmaking“, History of Art Department, Brown University. David Solkin: “Charles II’s New Clothes”, Art Historian and deputy director, Courtauld Institute, London University.

19th Century Studies Symposium: “Boundaries, Borders, Displacement: The Crisis of the Modern”

Event Schedule: 12:00   Opening Remarks 12:15   Reilley Bishop-Stall – Breaking News/Making Myths: Space, Identity and New York’s 19th Century Newsboys 12:50   Dustin Harris – Laboratories of Imperialism: Cultural Theory in the Urban Design of French African Cities 1:25    Sabrina Wong – Empire, Economy, and the Picturesque: India and the Daniell brothers’ “Oriental Scenery” 2:00    Break […]

Diedrich Diederichsen: Water vs. Objects

WATER VS. OBJECTS New media and technology has had a significant impact on contemporary art practice, and arguably, an even greater impact in the field of music.  In his public lecture at UBC, cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen will discuss the contemporary situation of music and sound within the culture industry, and draw connections between Walter […]

ARTH Graduate Roundtables – Day 1

Friday, February 29, Lasserre Room 107. 3 – 3:40  Joshua Schwab (MA): Recordando los binnigula’sa’ – A Different Interpretation of the Lienzo de Guevea/Petapa 3:40 – 4:20  Heather Muckart (MA):  The Denuded Face of Death, the Veiled Doctor of Pestilence: Faces and Landscapes of the Great Plague of London 4:20 – 5 Milena Tomic (MA): Rituals […]

ARTH Graduate Roundtables – Day 2

Saturday, March 1, Lasserre Room 107. 1 – 1:40 Vanessa Sorenson (MA): ‘Reach Out and Touch Someone’: A Reconsideration of Some Public Art of 1984 1:40 – 2:20    Jean Kares (MA): Translation of Medium and Re-presentation of Convention: Kesi as a New Art Form 2:20 – 3 Sara Mameni-Bushor (MA): From 2001 to 1984 and Back Again: […]