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This talk explores a diverse array of visual and material culture, including paintings, sculptures, textiles, liturgical objects, and even quipus (mnemonic devices consisting of knotted cords) in the forging of an anticolonial consciousness in the eighteenth-century Andes. Conversely, it also explores artistic patronage and production in the repressive post-rebellion era, looking specifically at the means by which official portraiture, cartography, and religious paintings sought to erase and reconfigure social memory of these upheavals in their aftermath. An attention to visual and material culture sheds light on a multiplicity of responses to rebellion by artists, viewers, and patrons who may not otherwise appear in the documentary record. Through interdisciplinary investigation that brings into conversation select works of art with the vast legal paper trail left behind by the age of rebellions, this talk offers new perspectives on the ways historical actors harnessed the visual world as an agent of political transformation.
The talk would be given via Zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/92785502466?pwd=MFdDWm94SEhSdWdhNlhZYTdicCsyUT09 (Passcode: 064017)
Dr. Amor will lecture on specific chapters of her career-long research on late modern artistic practices by artists from Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela as it implies a reflection on historical, local, and material conditions of cultural production beyond the dominant narratives of art history. Dr. Amor teaches modern and contemporary art with a focus on expanded mediums, intermedial practices and interdisciplinarity. Her approach is global, highlighting the role of institutions and exhibitions in the production of cultural representations. Her published research engages postwar abstraction and post-object aesthetics as well as the transatlantic dialogues between Europe and South America.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, which is held simultaneously at the Harn Museum of Art (September 7, 2021–April 24, 2022) and the University Gallery (September 14, 2021–February 26, 2022) of the University of Florida.
The talk will be given via Zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/92785502466?pwd=MFdDWm94SEhSdWdhNlhZYTdicCsyUT09 (Passcode: 064017)
Black Art Futures examines the state of the contemporary arts ecosystem to propose sustainable pathways for art, innovation and activism. Drawing on a book in progress of the same name, this talk is inspired by the current exhibition, Shadow to Substance, to demonstrate how photography, throughout its history, has played a key role in both documenting and delivering social change.
Thursday, February 17, 2022 9:00am - 13:30pm EST
Friday, February 18, 2022 9:00am - 15:10pm EST
Divination has played an irreplicable role in the diffused religious life of the Chinese people.
Although it faced periodical suppressions, especially in the modern era, divination and diviners have not only survived but also flourished in digital media in recent decades. Built on decades of innovation scholarship conducted through the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF) at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, this international symposium brings together a group of eminent scholars from various disciplines of Chinese studies to focus on Chinese diviners, examining how they adopted new technology and adapted their practices to changing social, political, and cultural contexts throughout Chinese history.
The talk will be given via Zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/92785502466?pwd=MFdDWm94SEhSdWdhNlhZYTdicCsyUT09 (Passcode: 064017)
Signs and Signification in a Global Perspective: A Review of the Research done at the IKGF, Erlangen
9:00-10:30 AM, Thursday, February 17
Michael Lackner, Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
The International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (better known under the German abbreviation IKGF) “Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication” was established in 2009 and can therefore look back to more than 12 years of an international transdisciplinary community of scholars. This talk will deal with two important aspects of the research conducted at the IKGF, where the often unjustly criticized comparative perspective proved extremely fruitful. We compared attitudes, views, and theories of premodern literati regarding prediction and divination in East and West and identified a broad spectrum ranging from skepticism to credulosity, with numerous differentiations “in between”. We further compared divinatory practices from the angle of their techniques (often based on calculation) and their respective religious affinity (sometimes empowered by prophecy). The talk will provide examples for each of these topics.
Welcome Address
Guolong Lai, University of Florida
Keynote Lecture: Signs and Signification in a Global Perspective: A Review of the Research done at the IKGF, Erlangen
Michael Lackner, Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Some Reflections about Shang Diviner Groups Mantic and Epigraphic Practices in Anyang
Olivier Venture, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Why Did Anyone Believe in Divination?
Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania
Divination and Narrative Strategy in the Zuo Tradition
Hanmo Zhang, Renmin University
Before the Duke of Zhou: The Significance of the Yuelu Dream-book for the Genealogy of Chinese Oneirocritics
Dimitri Drettas, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Do They Really Believe in Divination? With Discussion on the Plurality of the Qin-Han Divination
Byung-joon Kim, Seoul National University
Diviners, Prognostic Techniques, and Faith in the Warring States Period
Guolong Lai, University of Florida
Views of Destiny in Daoism
Fabrizio Pregadio, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Mediators of Imperial Fate: Doctors and Diviners in the Northern Histories
Steve Kory, University of Florida
Reading the Sutra of the Great Divine Spells of Auspiciousness
Lidu Yi, Florida International University
Chan Master Dayi’s Inscription on Sitting Meditation
Mario Poceski, University of Florida
Diviners in Fiction: A Study of Narratives about Diviners in Ming-Qing xiaoshuo
Vincent Durand-Dastès, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
Divination in Qingwei Daoism
Richard Wang, University of Florida
Conclusion
“Plural Domains: Art in, of, from Latin America” includes one art history lecture and a panel discussion comprised of internationally recognized artists and a scholar, each with a distinguished career and record of exhibitions, publications and participation in public events. The events take as their point of departure the exhibition Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Collection, which is curated by Jesús Fuenmayor for University Galleries and the Harn Museum of Art. The exhibition will be on view at the Harn from September 7, 2021 to April 24, 2022 and at the University Galleries from September 7, 2021 to December 3, 2021. The panel addresses the interconnections between artistic practices, curatorial research as well as diversity and pluralism in the contemporary art of Latin American.
Focusing on turn of the nineteenth-century France, from the eve of the Revolution to the Napoleonic period, this lecture seeks to explore relations between portraits of people and portraits of diseases. During this period both physical and mental disorders started to be visually recorded in a systematic manner. At the same time, portraiture was a very popular medium and I will argue that definitions and practices of portraiture evolving around the notion of character were crucial for the development of the pathological image meant to capture the “characteristic traits” of a disease.
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Thu, Sep 30, 2021 06:00 pm | Insurgent Imaginaries: Visualizing Rebellion in the Eighteenth-Century AndesDr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Associate Professor of History of Art, Cornell University Zoom ID: 927 8550 2466; Passcode: 064017 | Lecture |
Thu, Nov 4, 2021 06:00 pm | Thinking Art History at the Edge of ModernityDr. Mónica Amor, Associate Professor at Maryland Institute College of Art Zoom ID: 927 8550 2466; Passcode: 064017 | Lecture |
Thu, Jan 27, 2022 06:00 pm | Black Art FuturesDr. Cheryl Finley, Associate Professor of Art History, Cornell University (On leave); Director, Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Spelman College Chandler Auditorium at the Harn Museum of Art | Lecture |
Thu, Feb 17, 2022 09:00 am | Divination and Diviners in Chinese ReligionsSpring 2022 Symposium Zoom ID: 927 8550 2466; Passcode: 064017 | Lecture |
Thu, Feb 24, 2022 06:00 pm | Plural Domains: Art in, of, from Latin AmericaJosé Falconi (moderator), Panel Participants: Amalia Pica, Alice Miceli, José Gabriel Fernández Chandler Auditorium at the Harn Museum of Art | Lecture |
Thu, Mar 17, 2022 06:00 pm | Portraits and Pathologies: Likenesses and Clinical Pictures in Turn of the Nineteenth-Century FranceDr. Mechthild Fend, Professor of History of Art, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Chandler Auditorium at the Harn Museum of Art | Lecture |