Fall 2007 Workshop: New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Art History

December 7-8, 2007
Persimmon Room (Indiana Memorial Union)

PROGRAM

Friday, December 7

2:30pm: Welcome

3:00-4:15: Dian Kriz (Art History, Brown): The Aesthetics and Physiognomy of “Black Humor” on the Eve of Abolition

Commentator: Mary Favret (English, Indiana)

4:30-5:45: Catherine Molineux (History, Vanderbilt): Inverting Hierarchies: Black Slavery and Revolutionary Era British Art

Commentator: Nancy Levene (Religious Studies, Indiana)

7:30: Workshop dinner – Trulli Flatbread

Saturday, December 8

9:15-10:30: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (Art History, Harvard): Boucher’s Promiscuity

Commentator: Rebecca Spang (History, Indiana)

10:45-12:00: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (Art History, Berkeley): Drawing, Scale and the Description of Egypt

Commentator: Sarah Scalenghe (History, Indiana)

Background illustration: details from Thomas Wright of Durham, An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750), plate XXXII.