University of Virginia - 2nd Biennial Art & Architectural History
Graduate Symposium

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 (Campbell Hall 160)

The University of Virginia's graduate program in Art and Architectural
History will host a symposium exploring the connections between visual
culture, the built environment, military might, and governmental
authority.

The selected speakers are graduate students or recent graduates from
across the country, all presenting on issues within the symposium's
theme but spanning a variety of media, disciplines, historical periods,
and geographic regions.

C. Jacob Butera (Duke University)
The Land of the Fine Triremes: Naval Identity and Polis 'Imaginary' in
5th Century Athens

Kristina Keogh (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Conventual Spaces: Visual Culture and Social Order in Colonial Cuzco

Krista Gulbransen (University of Virginia)
Reincarnating Krishna: Images of the God in the Service of Indian
Nationalism

Adam M. Thomas (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
The world moves: Art at the Maryland State Fair of 1864

Theresa Huntsman (Washington University in St. Louis)
Selvaggio and the Savage: The Treatment of the African in Fascist
Caricature

Dennis Delgado (City College of New York)
War within Disembodied Technologies: America's Army and its Propagation
of War

Key Note Lecture
Scott Paul Gordon (Department of English, Lehigh University)

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