Please join us for the 2023 Art History Graduate Symposium at the Manetti Shrem Museum on Friday, June 9. The symposium is the art history contribution to the “Arts & Humanities 2023 Graduate Exhibition” which showcases the culminating work of graduate students in the College of Letters and Science and opens June 8 with a reception from 6-9 pm.

Graduate students Simon Gage, Hunter Kiley, Xuying Liu, Sienna Weldon, Hannah Thompson and Srdan Tunic will present their theses from 2:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Schedule:

Sienna Weldon, “Imposed Exoticism and Hawaiian Regalia: The Robert Dampier and Eugénie Le Brun Portraits of the Early Kamehameha Dynasty.”

Hunter Kiley, “A Spiteful Eruption in Green and Gold: Whistler’s The Gold Scab and the Instability of Genre in Nineteenth-Century Art”

Hannah Thompson, “Oscar Howe’s Wounded Knee Massacre: A Complex Critique of Settler Colonial Violence”

Simone Gage, “Warhol’s Death and Disaster: The Byzantine Icons of Pop”

Srđan Tunić, “The Adventures of Inspector Yoda the Wrinkled: Queering the Streets of Belgrade

Xuying Liu, “A New Image of an Old Paragon: Youth-Driven Transformations of Lu Xun’s Image in Post-2010 Chinese Internet Art”

Leading into the symposium at 1:30 p.m. will be the Undergraduate Awards Ceremony. Join us in congratulating the art history class of 2023 and all their great work!