Graduate Student Symposium

Thirteenth Annual “Expanding the Visual Field” Graduate Student Symposium

Peripheral Visions: Colonization, Resistance, Representation
Saturday, October 3, 2009, 9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.,
Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall, The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Tel 310 440 7335
www.getty.edu

Keynote Speaker: Susan Slyomovics, Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages, UCLA

Inspired by the Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the Colonial City exhibi-tion, this symposium seeks to discover fissures and tensions in the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized, and to exam-ine the role of the visual in articulating these phenomena. Traditional scholarship too often mechanically conceives of colonization as a set of fixed and irredeemably unbalanced power relations. This sympo-sium explores colonization as a process rooted in spaces; the visual practices—both literal and metaphorical—performed on the margins of these spaces; and how the visual functions as a site of resistance and equivocation in colonial relationships.

Schedule

9:30 a.m. Check-in and Coffee

10:00 a.m. Welcome Remarks

10:10 a.m. Julia Lum, Carleton University Sarah Stone’s Drawings of Cooks Northwest Coast Artifacts: Eighteenth-Century Contexts and Contemporary Perspectives

10:40 a.m. Kelema Lee Moses, Pennsylvania State University Contestation in the City: Architecture and the Critique of American Presence in Honolulu

11:25 a.m. Rachel Pusateri-Nelson, Stetson University Strategies of Engagement: Contemporary Art from Africa and the Western World

Noon–1:00 p.m. Lunch Break

1:00–2:00 p.m. Group A: Special Collections Tour / Group B: Gallery Tour

2:00–3:00 p.m. Group A: Gallery Tour / Group B: Special Collections Tour

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

3:15 p.m. Amy Von Lintel, University of Southern California Colonizing a Canon: Expanding the Nineteenth-Century Art History Survey

Keynote Address: Algeria in Black and White
3:45 p.m. Susan Slyomovics, University of California, Los Angeles

4:30–5:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion Moderated by Professor Richard Meyer and Jeremy Glatstein, University of Southern California

5:00–6:00 p.m. Reception

Presented by the USC Association of Art History Graduate Students in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute, and cosponsored by the USC Graduate and Profesonal Student Senate and the USC Visual Studies Graduate Certificate.

Admission to this event is free. To make a reservation, please visit www.getty.edu research or call (310) 440-7300. Note, late arrivals cannot be guaranteed seating. Parking is free with a reservation, or $15.00 per car without a reservation.

The Getty Research Institute is a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Other programs of the Trust include the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Foundation.

visualfield@college.usc.edu

Graduate Symposium Committee
Department of Art History
University of Southern California
VKC 351 - MC 0047
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0047

Symposium Series: "Expanding the Visual Field"

Begun in 1997, the "Expanding the Visual Field" symposia are organized once a year by the graduate students in the Department of Art History at USC. Each symposium addresses a central theme that has been devised by a student committee. The event draws graduate student participants throughout the country and concludes with a keynote address by a distinguished scholar.

Previous symposium themes include:
Reproduction and Seriality (2008)
A Useful Thing? Shifting Values, Uses & Interpertation of Art (2007)
Space: Exploration within and Beyond the Image (2006)
Dating Ourselves: Innovation and Fatigue in the Visual Field (2005)
Configurations of Power (2004)
Staging the Body Politic (2003)
Manifestations of Cultural (Ex)Change (2002)
Different Histories, Histories of Difference (2001)
Visual Culture In (and Out) of History (2000)
The Coercive Image (1999)