The Department of Art and Art History invites all alumni, faculty, and students attending the College Art Association's (CAA) annual conference to a department reception. Connect with fellow alumni, faculty, and students.

Thursday, February 22, 5:30–7 pm
Los Feliz Room, Lobby Level Westin Bonaventure Hotel
404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles


Wednesday, February 21

10:30 am – Session: "Localizing History through Donor Portraits: Images of Donors and Ritual Scenes in Early Medieval South Asia" 

  • Janice Leoshko, Associate Professor, Art History (South Asian Art), discussant 

2 pm – Session: “Dissent and Resistance: Responses to Authoritarianism in Ancient Art" 

  • Gretel Rodríguez, PhD Candidate, Art History (Ancient Rome), Captives and Resistance in the Art of the Late Roman Empire

4 pm – Session: “All in the Family: Northern European Artistic Dynasties, CA. 1350-1750" (Historians of Netherlandish Art HNA)

  • Catherine Powell, PhD Candidate, Art History (Northern Renaissance/Baroque), Marketing Matriarchy: Maria Sibylla Merian, her Daughters, and their Blooming Watercolors

Thursday, February 22

4 pm – Session: “Permanence/Impermanence: Materiality in the Pre-Columbian World" 

  • Stephanie M. Strauss, PhD Candidate, Art History (Mesoamerican Art and Writing), chair
  • Elliot Lopez-Finn, PhD Candidate, Art History (Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, Postclassic Mexico), chair

Friday, February 23

4 pm – Session: "'Change the Joke, Slip the Yoke' Twenty Years Later: African American Artists and 'Negative' Imagery"

  • Jessi DiTillio, PhD Candidate, Art History (Modern and Contemporary American Art), chair
  • Cherise Smith, Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies (Affiliated Faculty, Art History), chair 

4 pm – Session: “The Park Place Group: Another Minimalism" 

  • Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Professor of Art History (20th Century European and American Art), Rethinking Park Place and its Place in Art History: Fifty Years Later

Saturday, February 24

10:30 am – Session: “A Way/s from Home: Blackness Across Nations" 

  • Julia Elizabeth Neal, PhD Candidate, Art History (Modern/Contemporary U.S. Art and African-American Art), Presently Elsewhere: Benjamin Patterson’s Flux

10:30 am – Session: "What Do We Do Now? Art and Politics Circa 1970 and Now" 

  • Allison Myers, PhD Candidate, Art History (Modern and Contemporary Art), The Revolutionary Abstraction of Supports/Surfaces in the 1970s and Today

4 pm – Session: "New Directions in Black-British Art History" 

  • Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani, PhD Candidate, Art History, chair
  • Eddie Chambers, Professor of Art History, chair

4 pm – Session: "Surrealism's Subversive Taxonomies" 

  • Claire Howard, PhD Candidate, Art History (Modern and Contemporary Art), chair
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Feb. 19, 2018
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