Waiting for the End of the World: Eschatology and Art 1939-2019

A Symposium organized by Amy K. Hamlin and James Romaine
for the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA)
Monday, February 11, 6:30-9:30pm
and Tuesday, February 12, 6:30-9:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, College of Arts & Sciences, New York University
100 Washington Square East, 3rd Floor

Registration is required: https://www.memberplanet.com/events/ascha/aschasymposium2019

Free for NYU Students and Faculty

Program
Monday, February 11
Session 1:
Hannah Hempstead, MA Candidate, Wheaton College
“Between the Center and the Edge of Things:” Art, Entropy, and Eschatology in the Work of Robert Smithson

Dr. Rory O'Dea, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Design, Parsons School of Design
Entropic Apocalypse: Robert Smithson's Non-Objective World

Session 2:
Dr. Suzaan Boettger, Professor, History of Art, Bergen Community College
“Life in the Lower Depths”: Early 1960s’ Postapocalyptic Undergrounds of the ProtoPostmodernist Robert Smithson

Dr. Deborah Frizzell, Adjunct Professor of Art History, William Paterson University
Across Space and Time: Figuring the Structures of Nancy Spero's Eschatology

Tuesday, February 12
Session 3:
Alexander R. Bigman, PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts at NYU
No Future: Sarah Charlesworth’s Doomsday Historicism from Modern History to Stills

Dr. Isabelle Loring Wallace, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia
Judgement, Jesus, and Reality TV: Christian Jankowski’s Casting Jesus (2011)

Keynote:
Dr. Pepe Karmel
Associate Professor Of Art History, New York University
The End of Art as a Necessary Fiction