Animal Modernities: Images, Objects, Histories, 1750-1900

This symposium is presented by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Department of Art History, and the Department of French & Italian.

October 13, 2022
9:15 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Faculty Lounge
Sponsored by
Art History Department, Leslie Center for the Humanities
Audience
Public
More information
Erin Bennett
6036460896

Animal Modernities: Images, Objects, Histories, 1750-1900

Thursday, October 13, 2022

All sessions take place in the Faculty Lounge, Hopkins Center for the Arts

Panel Schedule:
9:15-9:30 - Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Daniel Harkett and Katie Hornstein
9:30-11:00 - PANEL I, Katie Hornstein, Chair
9:35-9:55 - Tarek El-Ariss, "Genie, Eagle, Satellite: Animal Visuality and the Orientalist Gaze in Volney's Les ruines ou meditations sur Jes revolutions des empires (1791)"
10:00-10:20 - Emily Gephart, "To Fool a Fish: Interspecies Aesthetic Entanglement in the Art of Fly Fishing"
10:25-10:45 - Michael Yonan and Amy Freund, "Modernism is a Cat"
10:45-11:00 - Questions and answers
11:00-11:30 - Coffee
11:30-1:00 - PANEL 2, yasser elhariry, Chair
11:35-11:55 - Maura Coughlin, "Bovine Ubiquity"
12:00-12:20 - Rosalind Hayes, "'Look to Your Eating': Animal Matter in Late Nineteenth-Century Photography"
12:25-12:45 - Catherine Girard, "What Do Seals Want? Unsettling the Visual Culture of Seals and Sealing through Restorative Art History and Deference to Indigenous Epistemologies"
12:45-1:00 - Questions and answers
1:00-2:00 - Lunch
2:00-3:05 - PANEL 3, Alysia Garrison, Chair
2:05-2:25 - Annie Ronan, "Mr. Crowley's Signature: Race, Resistance, and the Queerness of American Animal Portraiture"
2:30-2:50 - Sean Weiss, "Dogs to Remember: Commemorating Companion Species in Georgian England"
2:50-3:05 - Questions and answers
3:05-3:30 - Coffee
3:30-5:00 - PANEL 4, Daniel Harkett, Chair
3:35-3:55 - Nina Amstutz, "Charles Darwin, Karl Woermann, and the Animal as Artist in fin de siecle Histories of Art"
4:00-4:20 - Alysia Garrison, "William Blake's Animal Gestures"
4:25-4:45 - Niharika Dinkar, "Shooting Elephants, Exhibiting Empire"
4:45-5:00 - Questions and answers

 

Registration for these events is highly encouraged but not required. Please write to Humanities.Events@Dartmouth.edu if you plan to attend all or part of the day's events. Thank you!

 

Location
Faculty Lounge
Sponsored by
Art History Department, Leslie Center for the Humanities
Audience
Public
More information
Erin Bennett
6036460896