The Harn Eminent Lecture series is organized by the Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History committee of the School of Art + Art History in cooperation with the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.
Beginning late November, a series of symposiums and keynote addresses by top scholars will be held in various locations on campus. From artists, critics, theorists, curators and several visiting arts professors, attendees will be informed on a wide range of art historical and contemporary topics. Here is a look at the planned events:
Fall 2014
SYMPOSIUM Art of Time: Alex Alberro, Dan Graham and Bennett Simpson
Monday, November 24, 6:45 p.m.
The Wooly (20 North Main Street, Gainesville) Screening: Rock My Religion (1982-4) by Dan Graham, followed by a discussion with guest speakers
Tuesday, November 25, 6–8:30 p.m.
Harn Museum of Art, Chandler Auditorium
Lecture, Dialogue and Panel Discussion
Dan Graham, Alex Alberro, Bennett Simpson
Reception to follow
Artist, critic and theorist Dan Graham’s videos, films, books, photographs, curated exhibitions and performances have been featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, the TATE Modern and the Venice Biennale. Alex Alberro is the Virginia Wright Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University. Bennett Simpson is a Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Curator.
Spring 2015
Caught in a Tangle of Dépaysement and Exotic Obsessions: Four German Art Historians in Republican China
Thursday, January 8, 6:00 p.m.
Harn Museum of Art, Chandler Auditorium
Dr. Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History and Associate
Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
VAGANTES MEDIEVAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Architectural Counterpoint: Juxtaposition and Opposition as a VisualStrategy in the Late Middle Ages
February 19-21: Thursday, February 19, 5:00 p.m.
Smathers Library 1A
Dr. Linda Neagley, Associate Professor of Art History, Rice University
Reception to follow in the Friends of Music Room
SOUTHEASTERN AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES CONFERENCE
Sentimentality and Seduction: Love in the Eighteenth Century
February 26-28, Hilton University of Florida Conference CenterKeyno
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Visualizing Love and its Discontents
Thursday, February 26, 6:00 p.m.
Harn Museum of Art, Chandler Auditorium
Dr. Mary Sheriff, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SYMPOSIUM America and France: New Perspectives on Transatlantic Visual Culture
Friday, March 20, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Harn Museum of Art, Chandler Auditorium
KEYNOTE ADDRESS French Light, American Light: Impressionism and Its Cultural Refractions
Dr. Nancy Mowll Mathews, visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator and Lecturer Emerita, Williams College
For more information on selected events visit saahharnscholar.net
