Home: Departure and Destination

The Ninth Biennial Graduate Group Symposium

October 4-5, 2013

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr, PA

Keynote speaker and respondent: Kostis Kourelis, Assistant Professor of Art History, Franklin & Marshall College

What makes a home, and who defines it? The home has a material presence and a place in the mind. It provides a locus of identity formation, negotiation, and display. Home stands as a site for social negotiation as well: who stays, who leaves, and why? What is at stake in the definition of a home, or the departure from it? As a microcosm of social order, the home can also act as powerful metaphor for a society as a whole. Is home defined by what it is, or by what it is not?

The Bryn Mawr College graduate group invites submissions to this interdisciplinary symposium. We seek abstracts treating aspects of home from antiquity to the present from graduate students in Classics, Archaeology, History of Art, and related fields. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

• Memory and Nostalgia

• Materiality and Display

• Politics and Domesticity

• Displacement and Homecoming

• Interplay of the Physical and Imaginary Home

• Homeland, Colonization, and Empire

• Defining and Transgressing Boundaries

In honor of Barbara Miller Lane, Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Professor Emeritus of History

Presented by:

Graduate Group in Classics, Archaeology, and History of Art

Bryn Mawr College

Previous Symposia:

Feed Your Head: Food as Material and Metaphor

Thievery! The Anxiety of Influence and Appropriation