Twentieth Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art

Co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art

Special thanks to the Dahesh Museum of Art for the Dahesh Museum of Art Prize for the Best Paper(s), a gift from the Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation

Saturday, March 25, 2023

1 PM: Welcome

Nancy Locke, Pennsylvania State University, President of Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art; Amira Zahid, Trustee, Dahesh Museum of Art

1:10 – 2:30 PM: First Session & Discussion

Patricia Mainardi, Graduate Center, City University of New York, AHNCA Program Chair, Moderator

Margarita Bucceroni-Tellenbach, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf & Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, “Native Americans in Nineteenth-Century Roman Sculpture.”

Virginia Magnaghi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, “Giovanni Bastianini in the Making. On Forgery and Visual Culture in Florence at the Time of Italy’s Unification.”

Jordan Hillman, University of Delaware, USA, “Humoring the Police: Comic Remediations of Authority in Fin-de-Siècle Paris.” 

2:30 – 2:40 PM: Break

2:40 – 3:40 PM: Second Session & Discussion

Marilyn Satin Kushner, New-York Historical Society, Moderator

Alonso Moctezuma, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Mexico, “Between La Bohème and Mexican Modernisms: Opera, Literature, Visual Culture, and the Fin-de-Siècle Representation of the Male Artist.” 

Barbára Romero-Ferrón, Western University, Canada, “Concept(s) of Spanish Art through the Nineteenth Century. Network Analysis of Exhibitions in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, 1800–1939.” 

3:40 – 4:00 PM: Discussion among Participants

Sunday, March 26, 2023

1:00 PM: Welcome

Nancy Locke, President of AHNCA, and J. David Farmer, Director of Exhibitions, Dahesh Museum of Art

1:10 – 2:30 PM: Third Session & Discussion

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University, and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Moderator

Isabelle Gillet, University of Michigan, USA, “Uprooted Exoticism: The Portrait of a White Aristocratic Créole in Restoration France.” 

Alex Round, Birmingham City University, UK, “‘Sisters in Art’: Reassessing the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood.” 

Miha Valant, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, “Province and Modernity: The Carniolan Institute for Artistic Weaving in Ljubljana around 1900.” 

2:30 – 2:40 PM: Break

2:40 – 3:40 PM: Fourth Session & Discussion

J. David Farmer, Dahesh Museum of Art, Moderator

Emily Madrigal, University of Virginia, USA, “Plaster Subjunctives: Édouard Dantan’s A Life-Casting at the Haviland Atelier, Auteuil, 1887.”

Bojana Rimbovska, University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, New Zealand, “From Quarries to Courts: Visualizing the Production and Movement of Plaster Casts across Imperial Space.”

3:40 – 4:00 PM: Discussion among Participants

This event will be held online. The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required at https://tinyurl.com/grad-symposium. 

For the complete program: https://www.ahnca.org; www.daheshmuseum.org. For further information: info@daheshmuseum.org.