Schedule

Thursday, September 29

9–4 pm: Study Day (symposium speakers only)

5:30–7 pm:  “Mother Right: Carola Giedion-Welcker and the Prehistory of Modern Sculpture”

  • Megan R. Luke, University of Southern California

Friday, September 30

9–11:00 am: Embodiment

  • Aaron Glass, Bard Graduate Center

  • Christa Noel Robbins, University of Virginia

  • Robert Slifkin, New York University

  • Moderated by Kevin Hong, Yale University

11:30–1 pm: Interiority and Figuration

  • Elise Archais, University of Illinois, Chicago

  • Namiko Kunimoto, Ohio State University

  • Moderated by Joanna Fiduccia, Yale University

2–3 pm: Gallery tour of Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition (meets in the Yale University Art Gallery lobby)

  • James Green, Yale University Art Gallery

3–5 pm: Infrastructure

  • Patricia Ekpo, Yale University

  • Kajri Jain, University of Toronto

  • Irene V. Small, Princeton University

  • Moderated by Faraz Olfat, Yale University

5:30–7 pm: Anne M. Wagner in conversation with Joanna Fiduccia and Jordan Troeller

  • Joanna Fiduccia, Yale University

  • Jordan Troeller, Freie Universität Berlin

  • Anne M. Wagner, University of California, Berkeley

Saturday, October 1

9–11 am: The Body Politic

  • Caitlin Meehye Beach, Fordham University

  • Aglaya Glebova, University of California, Berkeley

  • Sanjukta Sunderason, University of Amsterdam

  • Moderated by Alexandra M. Thomas, Yale University

11:30–12:30 pm: Curatorial Panel

  • Patrizia Dander, Museum Brandhorst

  • Keely Orgeman, Yale University Art Gallery

  • Moderated by Alex Fialho, Yale University

3:00–5:00 pm: Enlivenment/Everyday Objects

  • Paisid Aramphongphan, independent scholar

  • Sarah Hamill, Sarah Lawrence College

  • Moderated by Michelle Donnelly, Yale University

5:30–7:00 pm: “Scott Burton’s Embrace”

  • David J. Getsy, University of Virginia