After War: Re-imagining American Landscapes and Bodies in the Wake of the World Wars
Department: Art History
Date and Time: February 27, 2015 | 9:00 AM-6:00 PMEvent Location: 1030 Humanities Gateway
Event Details
SCHEDULE
9:00 AM Coffee
Morning Session 9:30 AM -12:30 PM
Welcome and Introduction by Cécile Whiting,
“Charles Burchfield’s War”
Alexander Nemerov, Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
“Screen Memories: Hollywood’s WWI”
Pearl James, Professor, English Department, University of Kentucky
“Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution”
David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Department of Art, Wake Forest University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break
Afternoon Session 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
“The New Sense of Fate”
Robert Slifkin, Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
“Entertainment Bombs: The Cold War TV Spectacular (as designed by Charles and Ray Eames)
Lynn Spigel, Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures, School of Communication, Northwestern University
“Andy Warhol: Modernism’s Dr. Strangelove”
John J. Curley, Professor, Department of Art, Wake Forest University
5:00 PM Reception
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Departments of Art History and Film and Media Studies, The Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, The Humanities Commons, and the Dean of the School of Humanities.