Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth at Thinking Women: Art and Representation in the Eighteenth Century A Symposium in Honor of Mary D. Sheriff

SYMPOSIUM

Thinking Women: Art and Representation in the Eighteenth Century
A Symposium in Honor of Mary D. Sheriff

Friday, October 20 – Sunday, October 22
All lectures are open to the public.

Friday, October 20

6 p.m. 
Introduction: Keith Luria, Department of History, North Carolina State University

Keynote Lecture: “The Woman Artist and the Uncovering
of the Social World”
Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles

Reception to follow
 

Saturday, October 21

9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. 
Moderator: Melissa Hyde, School of Art and Art History, University of Florida 

9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks

9:45 – 10:45 a.m. 
“Fashion in Time:  Visualizing Costume in the Eighteenth Century”
Susan Siegfried, University of Michigan
 
10:45 – 11:45 a.m. 
“Beauty is a letter of credit”
Nina Dubin, University of Illinois, Chicago
 
11:45 a.m. – Noon  
Break 
 
Noon – 1 p.m. 
“Chardin: Gender and Interiority”
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University
 
1 – 2 p.m. 
Lunch (on your own) 

2 - 5:15 p.m.
Moderator: Ann Bermingham, Department of History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara

2 – 3 p.m. 
“The Global Allure of the Porcelain Room”
Meredith Martin, New York University
 
3 – 4 p.m. 
“Pictured Together? Questions of Gender, Race, and Social Rank in The Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray”
Jennifer Germann, Ithaca College
 
4 – 4:15 p.m. 
Break 
 
4:15 – 5:15 p.m. 
“Becoming an Animal in the Age of Enlightenment”
Amy Freund, Southern Methodist University

Sunday, October 22

9 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 
Moderator: Sheryl Kroen, Department of History, University of Florida 

9:15 – 10:15 a.m. 
“Marguerite Lecomte's Smile: Portrait of a Woman Engraver”
Mechthild Fend, University College London
 
10:15 – 11:15 a.m. 
“Exceptional, but not Exceptions: Women Artists in the Age of Revolution”
Paris Spies-Gans, Princeton University
 
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.  
Break

11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 
Closing Discussion

The symposium is sponsored by the University of Florida Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History (UF School of Art and Art History), the International Center, the Department of History, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment) and the Center for Gender, Sexualities and Women’s Studies Research.