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)