UIC's Art History Graduate Student Association is hosting a symposium "Discipline and Doctrine" in honor of Professor Peter B. Hales. Victoria H. F. Scott will deliver her keynote, "The Art History Guild Strikes Back!" For more information on Scott's keynote, please visit http://artandarthistory.uic.edu/impact.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, October 22
18.00: Keynote: The Art History Guild Strikes Back!, Victoria H. F. Scott
Prof Hannah Higgins will speak about Peter Hales (1950-2014), Professor Emeritus at UIC
Friday, October 23
9.30: Welcome, Deepthi Murali, UIC
9.45-11.30
Panel 1: Structure and Spontaneity
Moderator: Professor Blake Stimson, UIC
- Learning from Ant Farm’s Truckin’ University. Hallie Scott, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Wall Street, Occupied: Dennis Oppenheim’s Stock Exchange Transplant. Randall Edwards, Graduate Center, CUNY
- "I’m not selling bread, I’m selling yeast” – Art and politics in the Situationist International. Siobhan Angus, York University
12.30-13.00
- Performance: Kelly Lloyd
- Proposal Paper
13.00-14.45
Panel 2: Post-Medium, Post-Discipline
Moderator: Professor Hannah Higgins, UIC
- "A Streak of Non-Purity" : The sites of Walter de Maria’s Chicago Project/ Art by Telephone, 1967/1968/1969, Amanda Dalla Villa Adams PhD student Virginia Commonwealth University
- Gesamtkunstwerk, Electrified: Raoul Hausmann and the Synesthetic Prosthetic, Hannah Kahng, University of California, Los Angeles
- Art Criticism Drunk on Nature: Clement Greenberg and Lawrence Alloway’s Pastoral Bacchanalia of the Senses, Becky Bivens, UIC
15.00-16.30
Panel 3: State Museums and Global Exhibitions: Contemporary Figurations of Nationality and Architecture
Moderator: Ömür Harmanşah, UIC
- Making the Land Legible: Landscape and Sovereignty in the Panorama 1915 Museum, Isaac Hand, New York University
- The ‘Biennial’-ization of Architecture: The Case of Chicago, Javairia Shahid, UIC
16.30-17.30
- Closing Reception