FOURTH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART Dahesh Museum of Art , New York March 24, 2007, 10 am – 4 pm The fourth annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art will be held on Saturday, March 24, 2007, in the auditorium of the Dahesh Museum of Art, 580 Madison Avenue , New York , from 10 AM to 4 PM.

The symposium is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA), the Dahesh Museum of Art, the Fine Art Connoisseur, the Graduate Program in Art History of the City University of New York, and the Art History Program of Seton Hall University.

Schedule:

9:30 – 10:00 Registration and Coffee

10:00 – 11:45 Welcome – Introductions

Min Kyung Lee, The Accuracy of Urban Myths: Drawing the 1791 “Plan des Artistes”

Ersy Contogouris, Absence and Desire

Corina Weidinger, Piety and Horror in Pierre Vafflard's “ Young Holding His Dead Daughter in His Arms.”

Margaret Samu, Baring the Breast: The Exposed Female Body in French Painting of the Revolutionary Period

11:45 – 12: 15 Discussion

12:15 - 1:15 Lunch

1:15 - 2:35 Introductions

Russell Lord, Arranging a Picture: Sculptural Significance at the Dawn of Photography

Catherine Roach, The Artist in the House of His Patron: John Everett Millais's “ Portrait of James Wyatt”

Jennifer Katanic, Pan-Slavism and the Politics of European Identity

2:35 – 2:50 Stretch

2:50– 3:30 Anca Lasc, Surviving, Forgetting, Displacement, and Destruction - A Sculpture in the Public Sphere

Jan Dirk Baetens, Photography in the Picture: The Scandal of “ Le Yacht ‘La Sirène'”

3:30 – 4:00 Discussion

4:00 – 5:00 Reception

These papers were selected from 43 submissions by a jury composed of Petra ten-Doesschate Chu (Seton Hall University), Stephen Edidin (New York Historical Society), Patricia Mainardi (CUNY Graduate Center), and Lisa Small (Dahesh Museum of Art).

The 2007 symposium is held in honor of Robert Rosenblum, who attended all previous ones and always was an active participant.