Organized by the Association of Graduate Art Students in conjunction with the Georgia Museum of Art, the biennial Emerging Scholars Symposium invites art historians who are engaged in, or have recently concluded, graduate studies to share their research with their peers  and the UGA community.

The symposium often aligns its topic with the Georgia Museum of Art's programming, offering participants the chance to expand upon the themes highlighted in a current exhibition. In addition to the panel of scholarly presentations, the symposium’s events include a keynote speaker whose work ties together the theme of the exhibition and symposium topic.

2019 Emerging Scholars Symposium 

llustrating Love: From Myth to Manual

March 22-23, 2019
Georgia Museum of Art Auditorium

SCHEDULE

Friday March 22nd, 2019

4:30-5:30PM Dr. Paul Barolsky keynote lecture

Saturday March 23rd, 2019 

8:30-9:15AM Coffee

9:15-9:30AM Welcome

9:30-10:45AM The Provocative Erotic

  • “Erotic Nudes? Towards a Contouring of ‘Stimulating Images’ in Renaissance Italy”—Mandy Richter, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
  • “Enea Vico’s Loves: A Study in One Antiquarian’s Affair with Early Modern Erotica”—Mara McNiff, University of Arizona

10:45-11:15AM Coffee Break 

11:15-12:45PM Literary Reflections 

  • “Amsterdam Mercantile Adaption for Conspicuous Epithalamic Illustrations”—Jungyoon Yang, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • “Adaptations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Sixteenth Century France: Physical and Moral Recontextualization in the Tapestry of Narcissus at the Fountain”—Morgan Macey, University of South Florida
  • “From Marriage Chest to Tomb”—Delphine Calle, Ghent University

12:45-2:30PM Lunch Break

(catered lunch by invitation only, Note: Joe Frank Commons closed on weekends) 

2:30-4:00PM Desire, Devotion, Deception

  • “Chagall, The Song of Songs, and Reciprocal Desire”—Maryclaire Koch, SUNY Buffalo
  • “Clodion’s Touching Subjects: Love and Devotion in Revolutionary France”—Elizabeth Browne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • ‘A Most Pleasurable Deception:’ The Gentildonna Bolognese as Bravura in Lavinia Fontana’s Autoritratto alla Spinetta—Meagan Khoury, University of York

Co-Chair Closing Remarks 

2019 Emerging Scholars Symposium Abstracts