The Second Annual Intercollegiate Undergraduate Art History Symposium will offer an opportunity for intellectual exchange between young scholars at Chicago institutions. Graduating students at SAIC, UChicago, Loyola University, and UIC will present their BA thesis research to students, faculty, and friends. Food and refreshments will be provided.

This event is generously supported and funded by University of Chicago and SAIC Departments of Art History.

Schedule is as follows:

Around the Devotional Object
10:00 – 10:10: Mary Kirk (University of Illinois Chicago) — The Demise and Defining of Jewish Status in Pre-Spanish Inquisition Catalonia
10:10 – 10:20: Magdalena Glotzer (University of Chicago) — Host Figures: Movement and Change in Mesoamerica
10:20 – 10:30: Moderated Q&A

From Louvre to White Cube: Reconsidering Museum and Canon
10:45 – 10:55: Alexis Wells (University of Chicago) — Face and Fabrication: Portraiture in the Mausoleum of Héloïse and Abélard
10:55 – 11:05: Bobbie Sheng (University of Chicago) — Painted in a New Light: Artistic Revivals in the Age of French Realism
11:05 – 11:15: Elizabeth Smith (University of Chicago) — Specific Objects Without Specific Form: Félix González-Torres and the Curatorial Act
11:15 – 11:30 Moderated Q&A

Subcultures and Social Transformations Through Camera and Canvas
11:45 – 11:55: Martina Lentino (University of Chicago) — Segurismos: Spatial Subversions of Argentine Ideology
11:55 – 12:05: Leah Levine (Loyola University) — Whores of Modern Life: Painting the Sexual Economy of Paris from 1848-1900
12:05 – 12:15: Moderated Q&A

12:15 – 1:00 Lunch

Perceptions of Modern and Contemporary China
1:00 – 1:10: Alejandra Vargas (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) — Garden States
1:10 – 1:20: Sierrah Floyd (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) — Contemporary Performance Art in Mainland China Contextualized
1:20 – 1:30: Yihong Liu (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) — Kichiku Culture: the Audience as Creators
1:30 – 1:45: Moderated Q&A

In Circulation: Art Law, Economies, and Documents
2:00 – 2:10: Zhanna Ter-Zakaryan (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) — Bona Fide Purchasers and the True Owners of Cultural Property
2:10 – 2:20: Kaesha Freyaldenhoven (University of Chicago) — Rush More: The Monolithic Mural. A Case Study of Celebrity in Chicago Public Art
2:20 – 2:30 Monica Loughman (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) — Artprice: Art for Sales Sake
2:30 – 2:45: Moderated Q&A

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