Degree Programs

Faculty Conferences and Symposia

BGC faculty will be participating in the following upcoming events.

Aaron Glass

"Complicating Curtis: Intercultural Exchange, Indigenous Agency, and the Interpretation of Frontier Imagery"

Thursday, October 1, 2009–Friday, October 2, 2009
Visual and Cultural Studies-the Next 20 Years: Celebrating the Past
and Embracing the Future
University of Rochester

Paul Stirton

Session chair at the conference marking the end of the exhibition "The Discovery of Spain: British Artists and Collectors from Goya to Picasso."

Thursday, October 8, 2009–Friday, October 9, 2009
The Discovery of Spain: British Artists and Collectors
National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh
Professor Stirton was the chief curator for this exhibition, a contributor to the catalogue, and he will be editing the conference papers to be published by the National Gallery of Scotland in 2011.

Andrew Morrall

"Regaining Eden,"The Bible and domestic embroidery in
seventeenth-century England

Thursday, October 8, 2009–Friday, October 10, 2009
The Third Lovis Corinth Symposium: The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400-1800
Emory University

Catherine Whalen

Co-moderator at the Educators & Academia Convening at the American Craft Council Conference, 2009

Thursday, October 15, 2009–Saturday, October 17, 2009
American Craft Council's "Creating a New Craft Culture," Conference 2009
Minneapolis, MN

Amy F. Ogata

"Cultivating and Commodifying Everyday Creativity in Postwar
American Childhood"

Tuesday, October 27, 2009–Friday, October 30, 2009
ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference 2009, Everyday Creativity: Shared
Languages & Collective Action,
UC Berkeley

Andrew Morrall

"Inscription and Substance in the Arts of Early Modern Northern Europe"

Friday, October 30, 2009–Saturday, October 31, 2009
Annual New England Renaissance Conference 2009: Value and Judgement
in the Renaissance
Boston University

Stefan Heidemann

"Formulating an Islamic Iconography," - The Representation of the Early Islamic Empire and Its Elite Religion in Its First Hundred Years

Friday, November 13, 2009
University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Friday Lecture Series
University of Chicago

Peter N. Miller

“Braudel and Peiresc, Braudel and Goitein: the Past that Could Have Been,” Braudel’s Mediterranean: 60 Years Later

Thursday, November 19, 2009
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
New York University

Aaron Glass

"Putting Head Hunters to Work: Art, Ritual, and Performance in the Kwakwaka'wakw Business of Showing"

Wednesday, December 2, 2009–Sunday, December 6, 2009
Culture-Making and Embodied Material Forms: Papers in Honor of Fred R. Myers
The American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA

Stefan Heidemann

"The Rise of the Middle East in the End of the Crusader States"

Monday, Decemebr 7, 2009
Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
University of Michigan

Stefan Heidemann

"Formulating an Islamic Iconography" - The Representation of the Early Islamic Empire and Its Elite Religion in Its First Hundred Years

Monday, December 07, 2009
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan

Aaron Glass

"Indigenous Ontologies, Digital Futures: Plural Provenances and the Challenge of Collaborative Museum Documentation"

Tuesday, March 9, 2010–Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Translating Knowledge: Global Perspectives on Museum and Community lecture series
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Peter N. Miller

“Antiquarianism and the History of the Cultural Sciences,” Transitions to Modernity Seminar

Monday, March 1,  2010
Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Peter N. Miller

“Braudel and Goitein: The Story of a Failed Collaboration”

Thrusday, March 18,  2010
Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting
New Haven, Connecticut

Peter N. Miller

“Peiresc and the Flemings: Rubens and Beyond”

Saturday, April 17,  2010
Leventritt Symposium
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Peter N. Miller

“Peiresc and Selden Studying the Middle Ages at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century”

Friday, June 25,  2010
Centre for Early Modern Studies
Oxford University, United Kingdom