Most Musical of Mourners, Weep Again - Titian's Triumph of Marsyas
Professor David Rosand
Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | 6:15PM
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall
presented by the Department of Art History and Archaeology

Tradition and Socialism - Art and Archaeology in North Korea
Dr. Jane Porta
Matsutaro Shoriki Chair Art of Asia, Oceania, and Afria,
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Thursday, March 12, 2009 | 6:15PM
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall
presented by the Department of Art History and Archaeology

“AT THE BOUNDARIES”

“At the Boundaries” is an interdisciplinary colloquium of graduate students of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York, and the Graduate School “Image-Body-Medium. An anthropological perspective,” University of Arts and Design (HfG), Karlsruhe, Germany, held at Columbia University, January 24th, 2009.

A second colloquium will be held in Karlsruhe in the summer of 2009; the date and call for papers are to be announced in February.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

All presentations and panels take place in Room 612 of Schermerhorn Hall, unless otherwise noted.

Saturday, January 24, 2009 | 10:00AM - 5:30PM

Morning Coffee
10:00 AM
5th Floor Mezzanine, Schermerhorn Hall

Welcome Address and Introduction to the Keynote
10:30 AM
Colby Chamberlain and Tina Rivers, Columbia University

Keynote Presentation:
10:45 AM
Vasari, the Etruscan: Totemism and Cultural Identity
Prof. Beat Wyss, Hochschule für Gestaltung
           
Break
11:45 AM

Panel: Liminal Artifacts
12:00 PM
“Merging the Natural and the Constructed Language of the Hittites”
Lee Ullman, Columbia University
“Belt Plaque Iconography in the So-Called Beifang from Warring States to Western Han”
Catrin Kost, Hochschule für Gestaltung

Respondent
Prof. Robert Harrist, Columbia University
           
Lunch
1:00 PM

Panel: National Boundaries
2:15 PM
“Spaces of Negotiation: Chinese Installation Art in the Transcultural Context"
Birgit Hopfener, Hochschule für Gestaltung
“‘An Outburst of Rage’: The Politics of Empathy and Affect in the Photographs of the Congo-Reform Association”
Huffa Frobes-Cross, Columbia University

Respondent
Prof. Kellie Jones, Columbia University

Coffee Break
3:15 PM
5th Floor Mezzanine, Schermerhorn Hall

Panel: Disciplinary Boundaries, Part A
3:35 PM
“Writing, Seeing and Knowing, or What Does Mitchell Want”
Anja Schürmann, Hochschule für Gestaltung
“On Pictures and Flow: an Archaeology of Mimicry”
Beatriz v. Toscano, Hochschule für Gestaltung:

Break
4:15 PM

Panel: Disciplinary Boundaries, Part B
4:30 PM
“Cornelius Cardew and Indisciplinary Practice”
Thomas Campbell, Columbia University
“To What Objects Do Our Disciplines Subject Us?"
Evan Neely, Columbia University

Respondent for Disciplinary Boundaries Parts A and B:
Prof. Keith Moxey, Columbia University

Past Lectures and Events