Program

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Keynote Speaker: Wael Shawky, Artist and Keith L. and Katherine S. Sachs Endowed Visiting Professor, PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Kishwar Rizvi, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University

5:30 pm, Robert L. McNeil Lecture Hall
Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street

Friday, March 31, 2017

History of Art Department, 351 Loria
190 York Street

9:30-9:45 AM • Introduction

Pam Franks, Deputy Director for Exhibitions, Programming, and Education and the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery and Kishwar Rizvi, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University

9:45-11:15 AM • Collecting and Curating

Moderated by Frauke V. Josenhans, Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery

Sultan Al Qassemi, Barjeel Art Foundation, “Politics of Modern Arab Art”

Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum, “Contextualizing Contemporary Middle East Art within an Historical Collection”

11:45-1:15 •Art and History

Moderated by Mandy Merzaban, Curator, Barjeel Art Foundation

Alex Seggerman, Smith College, “Mystical Men and Magic Machines: Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar’s Technology of Enchantment”

Clare Davies, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The Figuration-Abstraction Continuum, and the Case of “Oriental” Artist Hamed Abdalla (1917-1985)”

2:30-4:00 • Practice and Protest

Moderated by Najwa Mayer, Wurtele Gallery Teacher, Yale University Art Gallery

Dina Ramadan, Bard College, “The Science of Art: Knowledge Production and Artistic Practices in Early 20th Century Egypt”

Saleem Al-Bahloly, Johns Hopkins University, “The Resurrection of Tradition, or A Critical Theory of the Artwork in the Postcolonial World”

Miriam Cooke, Duke University, “Curating the Syrian Revolution”

4:00 – 5:00 PM • Roundatable Discussion