Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art

Moderated by Kaelin Jewell, senior instructor, Barnes Foundation

“Visualizing the Cosmic Center: Artists and the Transformation of Mount Sumeru in Medieval Dunhuang”
Yuzhu Wang, Bryn Mawr College

“Transatlantic Bodies: Representations of the ‘Moor’ in Sixteenth-Century Festivities”
Alexis Slater, Johns Hopkins University

“Under Pressure: Shiba Kōkan’s Megane-e and Their Cultural Environment”
Nick Purgett, University of Pennsylvania

Moderated by Steven Nelson, professor emeritus of art history and African American studies at UCLA

“Connective Memory and Colonial Cartographies in Emma Nishimura’s Japanese Canadian Internment Landscapes”
Emily Schollenberger, Temple University

“From Site to Slash: Identity as Spatial Practice, Mo Bahc 1982–1994”
JooHee Kim, University of Maryland

“Superfluous Vitality: The Ironworkers’ Noontime and the Erotics of Extraction”
Thomas Price, University of Delaware

“Flattening the Sarape: Mesoamerican Textile Techniques and Postwar Abstraction”
Angela Brown, Princeton University

Moderated by Alison Boyd, director of research and interpretation, Barnes Foundation

“From Colonial Museum to Global Museology: Remaking Regional Heritage in Contemporary India”
Pritha Mukherjee, Rutgers University

“Networking the Global Market of Chinese Art: Transnational Dealership and China’s First Art Exhibition”
Han Chen, The Pennsylvania State University