Department of Art History Events
Thursday, February 19th 2010
Museums and the Medical Humanities: Our Continuing Conversation.
"Museums and the Medical Humanities: Our Continuing Conversation" is a day long symposium that will extend the discussion generated by the 2008-2009 Menil-Rice Lecture Series on "Museums and the Medical Humanities: The Arts of Transformation." The program will explore a nexus of themes concerning emobodiment, creativity, trauma, diagnosis, medicine, healing, reflection, and transformation. Additional Information
Kyle Morrow Room, 3rd Floor Fondren Library, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Sunday - Monday March 14th-15th 2010
Crossing Borders: Visualizing Jewish/Christian and Jewish/Muslim Relations in Medieval and Early Modern Times.
The goal of this conference is to bring together specialists in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Studies in order to explore how art architecture, and material culture illuminate the complex ways in which Jews interacted with their neighbors. Additional Information
Thursday - Friday November 4th-5th 2010 Surrealism and the Americas Conference
This
conference focuses on the interactions and patters of influence among
surrealist artists and collectors within the Americas that have been
marginalized within dominant narratives of Surrealism and European
Exile.