Traversing Borders (Univ of California, Riverside, 12 May 12)

Riverside, CA - USA, May 12, 2012

Jeanette Kohl, University of California Riverside

University of California, Riverside First Annual Art History Graduate Conference: "Traversing Borders"

Saturday, May 12, 2012, 9 am - 5:30 pm at the California Museum of Photography (CMP) 3824 Main Street, Riverside CA.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Steve Hindle, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, Huntington Library, San Marino CA

Not very often, if ever, does academic scholarship fit neatly into the confines of a single label. Whether it crosses between disciplines or regional or temporal borders, most academic studies are more complex than they initially seem. The ‘Italian’Renaissance deals with a geographic region made up of independent city-states that were not, at the time, defined as a single region. Anthropologists in Latin America and Asia consider cultures that are inextricable from the multi- tude of others with which they traded for hundreds of years. Many musicians cite painters as influ- ences, and those painters may have been influenced by performance theory. Some crossover jumps outside the humanities even, with architects influenced by nature and artists by medicine and anatomy. It is the duplicity of these labels that we wish to address from different angles with “Traversing Bor- ders.”

9:00 – 9:30 am Registration

9:20 – 9:30 am Welcome address

Harmony Wolfe and Erin Machado, Co-chairs of Traversing Borders Jeanette Kohl, Graduate Advisor, UC Riverside, History of Art

9:30 - 11:00 am Panel I: Technology and Dissemination

Steve Anderson, History, University of California, Riverside “Approaching the Digital: Sixteenth Century Prints and the Textual Paradigm"

Noelle Belanger, History of Art, Design, Visual Culture, University of Alberta “Art and Praxis at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915

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Beth Merfish, Art History, New York University “Global Anti-Fascism in North America: The Taller de Gráfica Popular and The New Masses"

11:00 – 11:15 am Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:45 pm Panel II: Methods of Making

Catherine Damman, Art History, Columbia University “Body of Work: Simone Forti + the Ambivalent Labor of the Score”

Sarah Bay Williams, Art History, University of California, Riverside "The Difficulties of Nonsense: Humor in the Work of Robert Cumming"

Kappy Mintie, Art History, University of California, Berkeley “Unearthing the Campesino: Rethinking the Borders of Mexican- American Art in Ricardo Valverde’s Untitled Series”

12:45 – 1:45 pm Lunch

1:45 – 2:15 pm Tour of California Museum of Photography

2:30 – 3:30 pm Keynote Address Steve Hindle, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, Huntington Library “Representing Rural Society: Surveyors, Surveying and the Surveyed in Seventeenth Century Eng- land”

3:30 – 3:45 pm Coffee Break

3:45 – 5:15 pm Panel III: Trade and Exchanges

Andrew Turner, Anthropology, University of California, Riverside “The Art of Jean-Frédéric de Waldeck: Colonialism, Objectivity, and the Ancient Maya”

Lehti Mairike Keelmann, History of Art, University of Michigan “Amber rosaries, Baltic furs, & Persian carpets: The Tallinn ‘Mary Altarpiece’ as an object of Hanseatic conspicuous consumption?”

Brendan McMahon, Art History, University of Southern California “Of Hummingbirds and Shot Silk: Looking Obliquely at Mexican Featherwork in Early Modern Europe”

5:15 – 5:30 pm Closing Remarks

Reference: CONF: Traversing Borders (Univ of California, Riverside, 12 May 12). In: ArtHist.net, Apr 19, 2012 (accessed Oct 2, 2021), .

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