Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:24:07 -0400
From: "Mario A. Caro" <ario-AT-uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: UCLA Symposium



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"'Race', Nation, Aesthetics, and the Fabrication of Modernities," a
symposium on the complex and contested relations between art, aesthetics
and modern identities, to be held Friday, 30 April and Saturday, May 1
at UCLA's Dodd Hall.  Featuring Homi Bhabha, Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Emmanuel C. Eze, Catherine M. Soussloff, and
Karen Lang, plus a special session entitled, "Complicities and
Contradictions:  Art History and Its Indeterminacies."

For further information see the symposium website at
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/rna.html or contact conference
organizers Donald Preziosi, UCLA Dept. of Art History,
preziosi-AT-ucla.edu, fax# 310/206-1903, or Claire Farago, University of
Colorado at Boulder Dept. of Fine Arts, farago-AT-spot.colorado.edu, fax#
303/492-4886.

                              FRIDAY APRIL 30.  Dodd Hall Room 147
 4:00 p.m.
          Welcome:  Anthony Vidler, Chair, UCLA Dept. of Art History
          Introduction:  Claire Farago, Art History, University of
Colorado at Boulder, and 1997-98 UCLA Art Council Chair Visiting
Professor

 4:15 p.m.
          Keynote Lecture:  Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York
University "The Agency of Display"

 5:30 p.m.
          Keynote Lecture:  Emmanuel C. Eze, Bucknell University "The
'Racial' Economy of Modern European Philosophy"



                             SATURDAY MAY 1.  Dodd Hall Room 147
 9:45 a.m.
                Welcome & Introduction:  Donald Preziosi, Art History,
UCLA

 10:00 a.m
                Keynote Address:  Homi Bhabha, University of Chicago
"The Freedom of Strangers"

 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
                ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:  Homi Bhabha, Ali Behdad,
Emmanuel Eze, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Claire Farago, Donald
Preziosi

                                      12:00 - 1:00   LUNCH
 1:30 p.m.
                Plenary Lecture:  Karen Lang, Getty Grant Program
Postdoctoral Fellow 1998-1999 "The Veiled Goddess and the Connoisseur"

 2:30 - 5:00 p.m.
                COMPLICITIES AND CONTRADICTIONS:  ART HISTORY AND ITS
INDETERMINACIES SPECIAL PANEL:  Introduced and moderated by David L.
Salomon, UCLA

 2:30 p.m.
                Santhi Kavuri, UCLA  "UNESCO's Virtual Grand Tour and
the (Re)creation of the Global Citizen"

 2:50 p.m
                Rae Agahari, UCLA "Masami Teraoka's Cross-Cultural Pop
Art:  The Aesthetics of Transnational Displacement and Translational
Praxis"

 3:10 p.m.
                Debashish Banerji, UCLA "The Hybridity of Colonial
Indian Art and G. Tagore's 'Cubism'"

                                   3:30 - 3:50   COFFEE BREAK

 3:50 p.m.
                Jennifer Marshall, UCLA "The Peaceable Kingdom:
American Nationalism, Modernism, and Folk Art at the Museum of Modern
Art, New York, 1932"

 4:10 p.m.
                Joann M. Byce, UCLA "Art, Myth, and Magic:  Aura and
Fetish in Materialist Discourse"

 4:30 p.m.
                Mario Ontiveros, UCLA "Departing... Along the Limits of
Representation, Visibility, and the Politics of Identity"

 4:50 - 5:30 p.m.
                ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION, SPECIAL PANEL

 5:30 p.m.
                Plenary Lecture:  Catherine M. Soussloff, University of
California, Santa Cruz and Getty Research Institute Fellow 1999-2000
"After Aesthetics:  Jewish Identity and Visual Representation in the
Late 20th Century"


All events free and open to the public.  Park in UCLA Lot 2 at Hilgard &
Westholme Aves.










Mario A. Caro
Visual and Cultural Studies
424 Morey Hall
University of Rochester  
Rochester, New York  14627

office: (716) 275-9249
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e-mail: ario-AT-uhura.cc.rochester.edu

Personal Page:
http://www.rochester.edu/College/AAH/people/grad/caro.html

In[]Visible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture


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