Spring 2024

April 24 [Joint with VMPEA]| Jenny Harris (PhD Candidate, Art History)
“Ray Johnson, Sybil Shearer, and the Taoist Collages”
Respondent: Lucien Sun (PhD Candidate, Art History)

May 8 | QP Symposium
     Lucia Neirotti, “Deterritorialization and Self-Inscription in the Sensory: Cildo Meireles’ Arte física (1969)”
     Taylor Stewart, “Constructing Kōgei: Shibata Zeshin’s Trompe l’Oeil Lacquers”
     Aidan Valente, “Medieval Source, Renaissance Spring: The Fonte Gaia and its Place in Quattrocento Siena”

May 14 | Matthew Stahlman (PhD Student, German)
“’One With Its Glove’: Freedom, Concealment, and the Encounter with the Ghostly in Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen and ‘On German Architecture’”
Respondent: Nicholas Andes (PhD Student, German)

May 22 | Christine Fouirnaies (Lecturer, English)
“W.G. Sebald’s Images and the Concept of Visual Evidence”
Respondent: Catriona MacLeod (Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor, German)

May 29 | Maggie Borrowitz (Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Art History)
“An Unofficial History of Mexican Pink”
Respondent: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo (Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, History)

Winter 2024

January 17 [Joint with TAMEW]| Alice Goff (Assistant Professor, History)
Panel on Goff’s The God Behind the Marble: The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Panelists: Leora Auslander (Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor, Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity and History), Eleonora Gilburd (Associate Professor, History), Colin Jones (Professor Emeritus, Queen Mary University of London; Visiting Professor, History)

January 24 | Sam Lee (PhD Candidate, Social Thought)
“Art and Artifice: Fried, Adorno, Cavell and the Case of Animated Statues”
Respondent: Cole Gruber (PhD Student, Art History)

February 8 [Joint with LAHW]| Adriana Obiols Roca (PhD Candidate, Art History)
“Roberto Cabrera’s Index of Violence: Art and Disappearance in 1970s-80s Guatemala”

February 28 | Hilary Thurlow (PhD Candidate, Monash University, Art History and Theory)
“Tania Bruguera’s Permanent Revolution”
Respondent: Matthew Jesse Jackson (Chair, DOVA; Professor, DOVA, Art History, and TAPS)

Autumn 2023

October 4 | Troy Sherman (Curator, University Galleries at Illinois State University)
“Form and ‘Anti-Form’”
Respondent: Matthew Jesse Jackson (Professor, Art History, DoVA, and TAPS)

October 25 [Joint with VMPEA] | Alan Longino (PhD Student, Art History)
“Return to Character: Morita Shiryu and Work of the 1960s”
Respondent: Cole Gruber (PhD Student, Art History)

November 1 | Helen Molesworth (Independent Curator)
“A Conversation with Writer and Curator Helen Molesworth”
Moderated by Christine Mehring (Mary L. Block Professor, Art History and DoVA)

December 4 | Sarah Carter (Postdoctoral Fellow, Art History)
“James Forbes and the Paradox of India”
Respondent: Josephine McDonagh (George M. Pullman Professor, English)

December 6 | Lucia Neirotti (PhD Student, Art History)
“‘What Constitutes “The Human Scale”‘: Cildo Meireles’s Arte Física”
Respondent: Adriana Obiols Roca (PhD Candidate, Art History)