2010
Art History Symposium 2010 (Feb. 26-27)
The Savannah College of Art and Design’s art history department announces its third biennial symposium, Africa on My Mind: Contemporary Art, Home and Abroad, Feb. 26-27, 2010, in Savannah. The goal of the symposium is to encourage representation by a variety of media and scholarship regarding cultural and geographical areas in Africa and the African Diaspora.
Independent curator and internationally known art critic Simon Njami will deliver the keynote address Friday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m., at SCAD’s Arnold Hall, 1810 Bull St. Njami is co-founder and editor-in-chief of “Revue Noire,” a journal of contemporary African and extra-occidental art. He has served as artistic director of the Bamako (Mali) Photography Biennale since 2001, and he was co-curator of the first African pavilion at the 52nd Venice (Italy) Biennale in 2007. He also has curated numerous exhibitions of African art and photography, including “Africa Remix” and the first African Art Fair, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2008. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Jane Rehl, Ph.D., and Andrew Nedd, Ph.D.
Symposium co-chairs, department of art history
Laurie Ann Farrell
Symposium adviser, executive director of SCAD Exhibitions
Friday, Feb. 26
Session I: Interstitial Africa
9-10:30 a.m.
Presenters:
Session II: Academics, Markets and Imaginaries: African Art in Globalized Aesthetic Flows
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Presenters:
Session III: Loss, Hybridity and Resurrection
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Presenters:
Session IV: On Display: Contemporary African Art
3-4:30 p.m.
Presenters:
7-8:15 p.m.
Gallery Reception
8:30-10 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 27
Session V: Just Passing Through: Confronting Spatial Theory and Subjectivity
9-10:30 a.m.
Presenters:
Session VI: Artists’ Panel
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Presenters to be announced.
Chairs:
Farewell
12:15 p.m.
Independent curator and internationally known art critic Simon Njami will deliver the keynote address Friday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m., at SCAD’s Arnold Hall, 1810 Bull St. Njami is co-founder and editor-in-chief of “Revue Noire,” a journal of contemporary African and extra-occidental art. He has served as artistic director of the Bamako (Mali) Photography Biennale since 2001, and he was co-curator of the first African pavilion at the 52nd Venice (Italy) Biennale in 2007. He also has curated numerous exhibitions of African art and photography, including “Africa Remix” and the first African Art Fair, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2008. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Register now through 
Contact
For more information, e-mail Art History Symposium.Jane Rehl, Ph.D., and Andrew Nedd, Ph.D.
Symposium co-chairs, department of art history
Laurie Ann Farrell
Symposium adviser, executive director of SCAD Exhibitions
Preliminary schedule of events
All sessions will take place at Arnold Hall.Friday, Feb. 26
Session I: Interstitial Africa
9-10:30 a.m.
Presenters:
- Marie Lortie, University of Toronto
- Lucy Gallun, Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Sidney Kasfir, Emory University
- Edwin Johnson, art history, SCAD
- John Peffer, Ramapo College, and co-editor, “Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture”
Session II: Academics, Markets and Imaginaries: African Art in Globalized Aesthetic Flows
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Presenters:
- Victoria Rovine, University of Florida
- Sheila Petty, University of Regina
- Joshua Cohen, Columbia University
- Susan Falls, liberal arts (anthropology)
- Désiré Hounguès, liberal arts (anthropology)
Session III: Loss, Hybridity and Resurrection
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Presenters:
- Jessica Gerschultz, Emory University
- Kim Miller, Wheaton College
- Denise Murrell, Columbia University
- Rihab Bagnole, art history, SCAD
- Alexandria Pierce, art history, SCAD
Session IV: On Display: Contemporary African Art
3-4:30 p.m.
Presenters:
- Kinsey Katchka, North Carolina Museum of Art
- Elvira Dyangani Ose, Cornell University
- Susan Kart, Sarah Lawrence College
- Allison Moore, art history, SCAD
- Laurie Ann Farrell, executive director of SCAD Exhibitions
7-8:15 p.m.
Gallery Reception
8:30-10 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 27
Session V: Just Passing Through: Confronting Spatial Theory and Subjectivity
9-10:30 a.m.
Presenters:
- Giulia Paoletti, Columbia University
- Amy Powell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Carol Magee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Fred Gross, art history, SCAD
- Lisa Young, art history, SCAD
Session VI: Artists’ Panel
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Presenters to be announced.
Chairs:
- Laurie Ann Farrell, executive director of SCAD exhibitions
- Christoph Klütsch, art history, SCAD
Farewell
12:15 p.m.
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