Clark Conference: Art History and Diaspora: Genealogies, Theories, Practices
April 25, 2008 - April 26, 2008
We are no longer accepting registration online, but there is still plenty of space available. Please register on-site on the day of the Conference.
This year's Clark Conference will bring together artists, curators, and art historians to investigate the impact of the field of diaspora studies on art historical scholarship. How has diaspora—with its connotations of forced migration due to political expulsion, enslavement, shifting belief systems, war, and other forms of nationalist conflict—shaped both art-making and art historical scholarship in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries?
FRIDAY, APRIL 25
8:30 am: On-site registration
9:00 am: Welcoming Remarks
Michael Ann Holly, Director, Research and Academic Program
Mark Ledbury, Associate Director, Research and Academic Program
9:15 am: Conference Introduction
Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Southern University at New Orleans
Natasha Becker, Research and Academic Program
C. Ondine Chavoya, Williams College
9:30 am: Session One: Art and Diaspora
Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne
Art as Cosmopolitan Dialogue
John P. Bowles, Indiana University
Localized Acts and Transnational America: Art, Exchange, and Diaspora
11:00 am: Break
11:15 am: Session Two: Tracing Diasporas
E. Carmen Ramos, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton
The Post-61 Generation: Notes on the Dominican Artistic Diaspora in the United States
May Joseph, Pratt Institute
Shock, Globalization, and Performance
12:45 pm: Lunch
2:00 pm: Session Three: Transnational Collisions
Yong Soon Min, University of California, Irvine
TransPOP: Korean Wave in the Korean Diaspora
Vesela Sretenovic, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University
The Role of the Visual in Capturing/Questioning Contemporary History: Walid Raad and Beirut Project(s)
3:30 pm: Break
3:45 pm: Session Four: Diasporic Intersections in Photography
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Artist
When I am not Here/Estoy alla
Allan deSouza, San Francisco Art Institute
Flyboy: Photography and Transition
5:30 pm: Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 26
9:30 am: Session One: Diasporas and their Histories
Pamela R. Franco, Tulane University
African Diaspora: A Vexing Issue in Art History
Kobena Mercer, Spring 2008 Clark Fellow
Diaspora Aesthetics: Some Dialogical Propositions
11:00 am Break
11:15 am Session Six: Framing Diaspora
Richard Powell, Duke University
From Diaspora to Exile: Black Women Artists in 1960s Europe
Barnor Hesse, Northwestern University
Discrepant Blackness: Diaspora in the Art of “Transrupting” Britishness
12:45 pm Lunch
1:45 pm Screening of Isaac Julien’s True North
2:00 pm Session Seven: Re-Imaginings
Lisa Bloom, University of California, San Diego
Collaborations between Scholars of Visual Culture and Artists: Lisa
Bloom’s Gender on Ice (1993) and Isaac Julien’s True North (2006)
Judy Ramgolam, Central University of Technology—Free State, South Africa
Identity, place, and displacement: Visual Representations of Maggie van Schalkwyk and Avitha Sooful
3:30 Break
3:45 pm Session Eight: Diaspora and Memory
Simon Njami, Independent Critic and Curator
Broken Memories
4:30 pm Roundtable discussion with all speakers and the audience
$30 ($20 members and students; free for Williams faculty and students)
For more information, call 413 458 0460.
The Clark will run a shuttle bus between the Paresky Center at Williams College and the Clark. The shuttle schedule is as follows:
9:15 am (pick-up in front of Paresky Center, Williams College, and drop-off at the Clark)
12:30 pm (Clark to Paresky)
1:45 pm (Paresky to Clark)
6:00 pm (Clark to Paresky)
Saturday’s schedule is the same except final drop-off at Paresky is 6:30pm
Artist's Talk: Julie Mehretu on City Sitings
Thursday, April 24, 6:00 pm Williams College Museum of Art
Moderated by Clark Fellow Chika Okeke-Agulu.
We thank Williams College Museum of Art for extending an invitation to all conference attendees to attend this talk and reception.
