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With apologies for any FOGs (Friends of Goldwater) whose contributions I've acidentally omitted ...

Here is a selection of presentations and speakers at the upcoming College Art Association annual conference pertaining to the arts of our subject areas, museums and libraries.

Wednesday, February 14

2:30 PM–5:00 PM (Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York)

Visual Power: An Exhibition of Native American Artists/Scholars, A Project by the US Department of State Art and Culture Programs
Chairs: Duane Slick, Rhode Island School of Design; Phoebe Farris, Purdue University

• Fostering Diversity of American Cultural Diplomacy Abroad / Evangeline J. Montgomery, Office of Citizen Exchanges, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Washington, DC

• Gail Tremblay, Evergreen State University

• International Relations via Our Shared Solstice Sun over This World and the 50-Foot Outdoor Circular Denver Sculpture Wheel / Edgar Heap of Birds, University of Oklahoma

• Devotional Art for the Feminine Divine / Nadema Agard, Red Earth Studio Consulting/Productions

Thursday, February 15

9:30 AM–12:00 PM (Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York)

Time Loops: Producing “Primitivism” in Africa
Chair: Z. S. Strother, University of California, Los Angeles

• Picasso: Relooking at Africa / Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University

• Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture in the Spaces of French Modernism / John Monroe, Iowa State University

• Primitivism on Trial: the “Picasso and Africa” Exhibition in South Africa / Julie L. McGee, Bowdoin College

• The Legacy of Primitivism in Contemporary Senegal: Art, Politics, and Institutional Discourses since the 1990s / Maureen Murphy, Université Paris I Sorbonne

• Cultural Heritage and the Popularity of Primitivism / Peter M. Probst, Tufts University

• Discussant: Steven Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles

5:30 PM–7:00 PM (Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York)

Art History without Walls: Reconsidering the Artistic Canon
Chair: Heather McPherson, University of Alabama, Birmingham

• Canonical Complexity and the Aztec Calendar Stone / Annabeth Headrick, Vanderbilt University

• Embracing a Patriarchal Canon: Normative Aesthetics, Feminism, and Gender Identity in a 17th-Century Convent / Christina Morris McOmber, Cornell College

• The “Heroic Generation”: Fictional Socialist Realist Painters in the Work of Ilya Kabakov / Wendy Koenig, Middle Tennessee State University

• Discussant: Joy Sperling, Denison University
  

Friday, February 16

9:30 AM–12:00 PM (Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York)

The Unethical Art Museum
Chairs: Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary; Sally Anne Duncan, Plymouth State University

• “The Congo, I Presume”: Tepid Revisionism and Belgian “Colonial Times” at the Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, 2005 / Debora Silverman, University of California, Los Angeles

• The Louvre’s Galerie Espagnole (1838–48) and the Politics of Acquisition / Alisa Luxenberg, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia

• Museum Ethics vs. Vanity and Desperation / Elaine King, Carnegie Mellon University

• The Ethical Art Museum / James Cuno, Art Institute of Chicago

UPDATE 10:00 AM–12:30 PM (New York City Bar Association, Great Hall, 42 W. 44th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) This is a new time and place and updated program from the one published in the CAA's online schedule (Thanks, Joy!)

N.B.:   This event is free and open to the public.

Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and Beyond, Part I

Chairs: Martha Buskirk, Montserrat College of Art; Virginia Rutledge, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

• Inappropriate? Copying in the Renaissance / Lisa Pon, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University

• The Reign of the Quotation--Appropriation and Its Audience / Johanna Burton, Princeton University

• From Appropriation to Postproduction / Jaimey Hamilton, University of Hawai’i, Manoa

• Appropriation v. Piracy, Round Two? / The Hon. Pierre N. Leval, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; William Patry, Google

12:30 PM–2:00 PM (Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York)

Cultural Properties - Reconnecting Pacific Arts
Chair: Haidy Geismar, New York University

• Anita Herle, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

• Huhana Smith, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

• Joshua Bell, University of East Anglia

• Jade Baker, Canterbury University

• Discussant: Mark Busse, University of Auckland

12:30 PM–2:00 PM (Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York)

Contemporary African Art: Moving Forward, Looking Back; Investigating the Currency of Contemporary African Art
Chair: Odili Donald Odita, Tyler School of Art

• Isolde Brielmaier, Rotunda Gallery, Vassar College

• Olu Oguibe, University of Connecticut, Storrs

• Barbara Pollack, independent artist, critic, and curator

• Claude Simard, Jack Shainman Gallery

• Carol Thompson, High Museum of Art

5:30 PM–7:00 PM (Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York)

The Qualities of Enduring Art Publications
Chair: Susan Chun, Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Kraig Binkowski, Yale Center for British Art

• Max Marmor, ARTstor

• Sharon Helgason Gallagher, D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers

5:30 PM–7:00 PM (Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York)

African Art and Visual Culture: Pedagogical Perspectives from Classroom to Museum
Chairs: Christa Clarke, Newark Museum; Kim Miller, Wheaton College

• Representing Africa in the Classroom: Teaching African Issues and African Art / Kim Miller, Wheaton College

• Wrestling with Geography, Ethnicity, and Culture in the African Survey: Views from a Nonspecialist / Renee Ater, University of Maryland

• Enriching the Museum Visitor Experience with African Art / Heather Nielsen, Denver Art Museum

• Audience, Accessibilty and African Art: Making Exhibitions Matter / Christa Clarke, Newark Museum

• Discussant:Kate Ezra, Columbia College, Chicago

Saturday, February 17

9:30 AM–12:00 PM (Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York)

ART HISTORY OPEN SESSION: New Perspectives on the Pre-Columbian Arts of Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and Veracruz
Chairs: Diana Fane, Brooklyn Museum; Emily Umberger, Arizona State University

• Old Men and Fire: The Place of Huehueteotl in Central Mexican Art / Matthew H. Robb, Yale University

• Cacaxtla Figural Ceramics / Debra Nagao, Columbia University

• Cacaxtla Figural Ceramics / Claudia Brittenham, Yale University

• New Perspectives on the Art of Eastern Nahua, Mixtec, and Zapotec Confederacies, 1300–1521 / John M. D. Pohl, Princeton University Art Museum; Virginia Fields, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

• Written in the Flesh: Huastec Sculpture and the Cult of the Feathered Serpent / Kim Richter, University of California, Los Angeles

• Pictures Silenced by Words: Rethinking the Problem of Aztec Picture-Writing / Janice Lynn Robertson, independent scholar, New York

12:30 PM–2:00 PM (Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York)

Drawing Blood: Images of Sacrifice and Identity in Mexico, Pre-Hispanic to the Present
Chairs: Juliet Wiersema, University of Maryland; Pamela Huckins, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

• Aztec Royal Bloodletting and the Postbellum Reinvention of a Sculptural Genre / William L. Barnes, Saginaw Valley State University

• The Significance of Extreme Violence in Franciscan Martyr Portraits / Chad Alvarez, Harvard University

• Blood as Symbol of Sacrifice and Redemption in Codex Delilah / Ann Marie Leimer, University of Redlands

• David Stuart, University of Texas, Austin