Bryn Mawr Art Historians make impressive showing at the 2016 annual CAA conference in Washington, D.C.
It was a banner year for Bryn Mawr at the 104th College Art Association (CAA) annual conference, which was held February 3-6 in Washington, D.C. More than 30 alumnae/i , both undergraduate and graduate, joined with current and emerita faculty at a lively reunion lunch and Bryn Mawr was actively represented throughout the proceedings of the conference.
Among those Bryn Mawr alums giving papers and chairing sessions were Angelina Lucento (A.B. ’05), now at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, who presented in the session “Aesthetics and Art Theory in the Socialist Context,” and Mireille M. Lee (Ph.D. Archaeology ’99), now at Vanderbilt University, who presented a paper on mirrors as instruments of sexual and social transformation in the session “The Ancient Art of Transformation.” Leslie Topp (Ph.D. ’98), now at Birkbeck College, University of London, presented her work on the Hapsburg asylum in the session, “Modernism and Medicine,” while Sabrina deTurk (Ph.D. ’98), now at Zayed University in the UAE, presented a paper in the session, “Closing in on “The Wall”: The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial at Thirty-Five.” Jennifer Griffiths (Ph.D. ’12), a member of the International Committee, presented in the session, “Exile.” Lesley Shipley (Ph.D. ’11), now teaching at Kutztown University, gave a paper on the artist Doris Salcedo in the session “Surface and Significance,” chaired by Lisa Lee (A.B. ’00), now an assistant professor at Emory University. Jennie Hirsh (Ph.D. ’03), now at the Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art (MICA), presented a paper on Dario Robleto’s work in the session, “Spool to Spool: Audio Tape as Historical Evidence.” Marie Gasper-Hulvat (Ph.D. ’12), now at Kent State, participated in the session, “Re-examining the Art History Survey: What Do We Retain, What Do We Transform?” Allison Levy (Ph.D. ’00), founding editor of the Ashgate series on Early Modern Women, participated in the panel “How to Get Published, How to Get Read.”
Among the Bryn Mawr faculty presenting were Roberta Ricci, who presented her work on Poggio Bracciolini in the session “Forming Letters: New Research in Renaissance Calligraphy and Epigraphy” and Alicia Walker, who participated in the forum discussion, “Rethinking Online Pedagogy for Art History.” Both Homay King and Lisa Saltzman had new books featured, on the Duke and Chicago book stands respectively, in this year’s book fair.
The world’s largest forum for the visual arts and best-attended international conference in the field, CAA brings together artists, art historians, curators, critics and arts administrators and educators for four days of programming and events dedicated to disseminating new scholarship and publications, facilitating networking and job placement, and celebrating the accomplishment of some of the most distinguished scholars and practitioners in the field.