FRIDAY: AHA Symposium Keynote Lecture “Conceptualism and the Political Referent”

Nizan Shaked, PhD, will deliver the keynote address for the 13th Annual Art History Association Graduate Research Symposium on Friday, April 28, 2017.

Shaked’s lecture will present key ideas from her forthcoming book The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art. She’ll examine the impact of social movements—including civil rights, Black power, student, feminist, and sexual liberation—on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the 1990s. Shaked will discuss the turn to political reference in practices originally concerned with philosophically abstract ideas and trace key strategies in contemporary art today to the reciprocal influences of conceptualism and identity politics.

RECEPTION • 4:30-5:30pm • Lawrence Hall

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Conceptualism and the Political Referent • 5:30-6:30pm • 115 Lawrence Hall

This event is free and open to all students, faculty, and staff.