American Art in a Global Context
September 28--30, 2006

Register now to attend this three-day symposium at the Smithsonian American
Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Participants will explore anew America's
international artistic relationships, influences, and exchanges. Session
themes and speakers include:

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Overviews: Looking for the Big Picture.
Moderator: Wanda M. Corn, Stanford University. Speakers: Angela Miller,
Washington University; Winfried Fluck, Freie Universitat Berlin; Chon
Noriega, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center; and Margo Machida, Asian
American Studies Institute, University of Connecticut.

Keynote Address. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Crossing the Seas.
Moderator: Michael Hatt, Yale Center for British Art. Speakers: Jennifer
Roberts, Harvard University; Margaretta M. Lovell, University of California,
Berkeley; and Kevin Muller, San Francisco Art Institute.

Artistic Havens Abroad.
Moderator: Renee Ater, University of Maryland. Speakers: Katherine
Bourguignon, Musee d'Art Americain Giverny; Barbara Groseclose, Ohio State
University; and Kirstin L. Ellsworth, Pitzer College.

Modernism and Anti-Modernism.
Moderator: Joann Moser, SAAM. Speakers: Takashi Sasaki, Doshisha University,
Kyoto; David Peters Corbett, University of York; and Luciano Cheles,
Universite de Poitiers.

North American Cross-currents.
Moderator: Henry Estrada, Smithsonian Latino Center. Speakers: Gabriel
Perez-Barreiro, Blanton Museum of Art; Frances Pohl, Pomona College; and
Keith Morrison, Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
Photography as a Global Medium.
Moderator: Anthony Lee, Mount Holyoke College; Nancy Mowll Mathews, Williams
College Museum of Art; Francois Brunet, Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot;
and Rob Kroes, University of Amsterdam.

Culture, Commerce, and Propaganda.
Moderator: Laura Katzman, Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Speakers: Sergio
Cortesini, independent scholar; Helen A. Harrison, Pollock-Krasner House &
Study Center; John Bowles, Indiana University; and Martha Bayles, The Weekly
Standard.

For the complete program and abstracts of the speakers' talks, please visit
http://AmericanArt.si.edu/education/-opportunities-symposium.cfm, where you
can also find information on registration and lodging. Queries may be sent
to SAAMSymposiumsi.edu.

The Terra Foundation for American Art is supporting this symposium in
celebration of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's 2006 reopening after
extensive renovations. The foundation is dedicated to fostering exploration,
understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States for
national and international audiences.