Symposium Program - University of St. Thomas
Symposium Program - University of St. Thomas
Symposium Program - University of St. Thomas
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Protecting the Past:<br />
Looting, Identity and the Preservation Crisis<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Thomas</strong> Art History<br />
Graduate <strong>St</strong>udent Research <strong>Symposium</strong><br />
Keynote speaker: Jason Felch<br />
Oct. 11-12, 2013<br />
Generals Bradley, Patton and Eisenhower inspect art stolen by the<br />
Nazis and stored in a salt mine at Merkers, Germany, 1945.
Jason Felch<br />
award-winning investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times<br />
and co-author <strong>of</strong> Chasing Aphrodite<br />
Keynote Speaker<br />
“WikiLoot: An Experiment in Crowdsourcing the <strong>St</strong>udy <strong>of</strong> the Illicit Antiquities Trade”<br />
6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11<br />
Anderson <strong>St</strong>udent Center, Woulfe Alumni Hall<br />
A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.<br />
An object or painting on display in a museum may seem a safe and<br />
secure way <strong>of</strong> preserving art, but recent history and events have shown<br />
that protecting art and the world’s cultural heritage is complicated and<br />
difficult. Deciding how to protect and preserve the past, and to recognize<br />
the personal and cultural identity invested in art is difficult amidst<br />
competing claims <strong>of</strong> multiple legal systems, money and ownership.<br />
Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino’s Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for<br />
Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum (2011) highlighted<br />
the stakes involved in assessing the provenance <strong>of</strong> works <strong>of</strong> art and in<br />
building collections, and made the point that ethics is not simply an<br />
intellectual exercise in today’s world.<br />
Following up on his Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative reporting<br />
on the looted antiquities trade in the Los Angeles Times and Chasing<br />
Aphrodite, Felch is seeking to get the public, and especially students,<br />
involved in a crowdsourcing effort to find and track looted art with<br />
WikiLoot. This endeavor supplements the work <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>ficial organizations to compile lists <strong>of</strong> looted works,<br />
such as those antiquities taken from the Iraq National Museum and elsewhere. As Felch will show, this is<br />
an issue that should be <strong>of</strong> concern to everyone, and all <strong>of</strong> us can make a difference in its outcome.<br />
Poster Presentations<br />
<strong>St</strong>udents in Archaeology: Recent Fieldwork and Archaeological Research<br />
Sponsored by the Archeological Institute <strong>of</strong> America, Minnesota Chapter<br />
Lobby, Woulfe Alumni Hall
Graduate <strong>St</strong>udent Research <strong>Symposium</strong><br />
Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013<br />
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium<br />
Respondent:<br />
Dr. Mark <strong>St</strong>ansbury-O’Donnell<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor and chair <strong>of</strong> the Art History Department, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Thomas</strong><br />
Morning Session (9-11:30 a.m.)<br />
Sarah Crandall<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Thomas</strong><br />
Piecing Together the Past: The Restitution <strong>of</strong><br />
Nazi-Looted Art and the Case <strong>of</strong> Gustav Klimt’s<br />
Portrait <strong>of</strong> Adele Bloch Bauer<br />
Agnieszka-Anna Yass-Alston<br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> Jewish <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Jagiellonian <strong>University</strong>, Krakow, Poland<br />
The Plunder <strong>of</strong> Jewish Cultural Assets Within the<br />
Context <strong>of</strong> the Nazi Plunder <strong>of</strong> Works <strong>of</strong> Art in<br />
Krakow During World War II<br />
Mandy Chan<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> the Zodiacs: The Repatriation <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Bronze Animal Heads <strong>of</strong> Beijing’s Old Summer<br />
Palace<br />
Afternoon Session (1-3:30 p.m.)<br />
Joelle L. Lardi<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Texas at Austin<br />
The Destruction <strong>of</strong> an Ancient Marvel: Did<br />
Nineteenth-Century Engineers Downplay the<br />
Success <strong>of</strong> the Fucine Emissary to Justify its<br />
Demolition?<br />
Lynne Ellsworth Larsen<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Iowa<br />
Material Evolution and Spiritual Preservation in the<br />
Palace <strong>of</strong> Dahomey<br />
Soren Hoeger-Lerdal<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Thomas</strong><br />
<strong>St</strong>. Roch Market, New Orleans: Renovate, Preserve<br />
and Revitalize<br />
Christian Waguespack<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> New Mexico<br />
Reframing E.J. Bellocq: A Vernacular Reading <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>St</strong>oryville Portraits<br />
Poster Session<br />
<strong>St</strong>udents in Archaeology: Recent Fieldwork and<br />
Archaeological Research<br />
Sponsored by the Archeological Institute<br />
<strong>of</strong> America, Minnesota Chapter<br />
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., O’Shaughnessy Educational<br />
Center lobby<br />
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The faculty co-chairs <strong>of</strong> this event, Heather Shirey and Elizabeth Kindall,<br />
thank the many people who made this event possible.<br />
The faculty and staff <strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Art History,<br />
with special thanks to Dr. Victoria Young and Sue Focke<br />
The Graduate <strong>St</strong>udent <strong>Symposium</strong> co-chairs: Margaret George and Abby Gilmore<br />
The Graduate <strong>St</strong>udent <strong>Symposium</strong> Committee Members: Jessica Alleven, Lisa Berg, Sara Church,<br />
Ava Grosskopf, Carin Jorgensen, Wendy DePaolis, Chelsea Lynch, Barbara Quade-Harick, Hayley <strong>St</strong>oen<br />
and Kate Tucker. Our appreciation also goes to the many graduate and undergraduate student volunteers.<br />
Brady King, art history graduate program assistant<br />
A special thanks to Jason Felch and our graduate student speakers!<br />
Many, many thanks to those who made the keynote lecture and symposium possible:<br />
Dr. Terry Langan, dean <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences, the Department <strong>of</strong> Art History;<br />
the Center for Faculty Development; the Department <strong>of</strong> Communication and Journalism;<br />
and the Minnesota Chapter <strong>of</strong> the Archaeological Institute <strong>of</strong> America.<br />
Learn more about the Master <strong>of</strong> Arts Degree at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Thomas</strong>:<br />
www.stthomas.edu/arthistory/graduate<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Art History Speaker Series<br />
This year, the Art History Department will host lectures addressing the importance<br />
<strong>of</strong> ethics in protecting the art historical and cultural past. Victoria Reed, Sadler Curator <strong>of</strong> Provenance<br />
at the Museum <strong>of</strong> Fine Arts in Boston, will give the next talk in this series on Dec. 6.<br />
Speakers slated for the spring <strong>of</strong> 2014 include Cori Wegener, cultural heritage preservation <strong>of</strong>ficer,<br />
Office <strong>of</strong> the Undersecretary for History, Art and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution;<br />
and Kimberly Cleveland, assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor, African and African-American Art History, Georgia <strong>St</strong>ate.<br />
Details can be found at www.stthomas.edu/arthistory/events.<br />
College <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences