Philadelphia-Area Undergraduate Art History Research Symposium

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt Library, 6th Floor, 3420 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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10:30am Welcome | Ivan Drpić, University of Pennsylvania

Morning Session

10:40–11:00am “Art Disarming Arrows: Buddhist Art through Ceremonial Arrowheads (Yanone)” | Melanie Crockett, West Chester University

11:00–11:20am “Diana in the Garden: Image and Transgression in the Roman Hortus” | Iris Péron-Ames, University of Pennsylvania

11:20–11:40am “How the Light Touches Us: Transitions in American Stained Glass” | Natalie K. Cincotta, Bryn Mawr College

11:40am–12:00pm “Art that Offends: Lee Bul’s Majestic Splendor and its Controversy” | Kris Newswanger, West Chester University

12:00-1:00pm Lunch

1:00-2:00pm Tour of the exhibition Collecting the New Irascibles: Art in the 1980s, Arthur Ross Gallery

Afternoon Session

2:00–2:20pm “Choreographed Manhood: The Queer Subtext of Beau Travail in Comparison to the Works and Biography of Thomas Eakins” | Virginia Edwards, Temple University

2:20–2:40pm “The Female Flâneur: Structure and Agency in the Work of Berthe Morisot” | Jaclyn Nathanson, Villanova University

2:40–3:00pm “Grieving the Missing Body: De-Pathologizing Melancholia in Janet Toro’s Post-Dictatorship Work” | Laurel E. Gabbard, Bryn Mawr College

3:00–3:20pm “Fabricating Safety: The Rise of Scaffolding in New York City (1975–2025)” | Hope Dworkin, Swarthmore College