9th Annual Mark Roskill Symposium
The 9th Annual Mark Roskill Symposium is titled "Seeing You, Seeing Me: Visual Culture and the Formation of Identities."
Identity is a dynamic process of projection and perception, a kaleidoscopic ensemble of ourselves and others. Conceptions of identity are a critical part of our experience and impact the development and understanding of our surrounding environment. This Symposium will examine the role of art and visual culture in crafting personal and communal images and how the propagation of those images affects the understanding of transnational societies.
The graduate students of the program in Art History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst welcome Touba Ghadessi Fleming, Assistant Professor of Art History at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, this year's Symposium keynote speaker, who will present her paper "Monsters, Ink: Images of Dwarves and Hirsutes in Early Modern Court." Professor Fleming's research focuses on deformities and monstrosities, the history of anatomy, gender definitions and gender ambiguity in the Early Modern period.
Additional speakers include:
• Keith Franks (University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Not Men, Not Women: The Galli, the Foreign and the Feminine in Art of the Roman Empire"
• Iben Falconer (Yale School of Architecture): "Danish by Design: Performing the National in Contemporary Danish Architecture"
• Patrick Coleman (Rutgers University): "Images of Boar Hunting in Archaic Lakonian Vase Painting"
• Kate Albert (Williams College): "The Polish Prometheus: Bringer of Light and Bearer of National Identity"
• Sheena Ellison: "Now You See Me: History, Mischief, and the Landscape Painting of Kent Monkman"