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Art & Empires
ProgramDownload Program in PDFApril 23 MORNING (10:00am - 12:30pm)
Chair: David BLACKBOURN (Coolidge Professor of History and CES Director - Harvard University)
10:00
Introduction by David BLACKBOURN
10:15
Patrice HIGONNET (Goelet Professor of French History - Center for European Studies - Harvard University)
"The Art of the Sublime in the Capital of the World: American artists in 19th century Paris" 10:40
Debora SILVERMAN (Professor of History and Art History- U.C.L.A.)
"Personal Colony, National Legacy: Art. Empire, and Memory at King Leopold II's Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, 1910/2005" 11:05
Matthias TISCHER (Visiting Scholar - Music Department and Center for European Studies - Harvard University)
"The Arts and Culture in Times of Cold War" 11:30
Discussion
12:30
Buffet lunch in the foyer
AFTERNOON (2:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Chair: Charles MAIER (Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History - Center for European Studies - Harvard University)
14:00
Arthur GOLDHAMMER (Affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University)
"Emerson, Young America, and the Imperial Imagination in Ante-Bellum America" 14:25
Alan WALLACH (Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History- The College of William and Mary)
"The Imperial Gaze in Hudson River School Landscape Painting" 14:50
Christine CADOT (Visiting Scholar - Center for European Studies - Harvard University and Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique, CNRS & ENS-Cachan)
"Framing an Empire: Thomas Cole and the American Destiny" 15:15
Discussion
15:50
Pause
16:00
Gérard MAIRET (Professor of Political Philosophy - Political Science Department - Université Paris 8)
"The Ruler's Law vs. The Rule of Law. Western-Movies and the Foundation of History out of the Wilderness" 16:30
Ted STEBBINS (Curator of American Art - Fogg Art Museum - Harvard University)
"After the Civil War: Old Empires Replaced by New" 16:45
Discussion
17:20
Conclusion and General Discussion
Reception to follow
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