The 2020 Online Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada takes place from October 15-17, 2020 and the Department of Art History is pleased to report that a number of its faculty, students, and alumni are participating in this year's event.
Every fall UAAC hosts Canada's professional conference for visual arts based research by art historians, professors, artists, curators and cultural workers. This year's conference features a great line up of events featuring Canadian and international speakers taking part in sessions that have many different themes including period-based studies, photography, equity and diversity, environment, design, pedagogy, and research creation.
Here is a list of just a few of the events our colleagues are involved in:
Thursday, October 15
- Session A.1: A.1 ROUNDTABLE Accessing Art in the Virtual World: A Conversation about Access, Equity, and Diversity in 2020
Chairpersons: Samantha Chang, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History; Brittany Myburgh, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History; Lauryn Smith, PhD Candidate, Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Museum of Art - Sessions A.5 & B.5: Thinking "Latin American Art/Artists" through Flows and Diasporas (Part 1 & Part 2)
Co-Chair: Analays Alvarez Hernandez, Assistant Professsor, Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal (former Art History Postdoctoral Fellow) - Session A.6.2: A Brief Survey of Non-Aesthetics in Canada: Percy Nobbs, IAIN BAXTER&, Ian Carr-Harris, and Jessica Eaton
Speaker: Adam Lauder, OCAD University (PhD, University of Toronto 2016) - Sessions A.8 & B.8: Updating the Account: Women Artists in Museums and Beyond (Part 1 & Part 2)
Chair: Amy Wallace, Carleton University (PhD, University of Toronto 2019) - Session B.8.1: She Said She Said: Women’s Art Writing in Postmodern Canada
Speaker: Rhiannon Vogl, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History
Friday, October 16
- Session C.2.1: Holocaust Humour, Jewish Jokes and Contrarian Clowning: The Provocative Art and Mimicry of Erez Israeli
Speaker: Louis Kaplan, Professor, Graduate Department of Art History, University of Toronto - Sessions C.4 & D.4: Placemaking and Materiality in the Domestic Interior (Part 1 & Part 2)
Co-Chair: Erin J. Campbell, University of Victoria (PhD, University of Toronto 1998) - Session C.6.4: Curating Contemporary Art at Home for the World: (Post)-Socialist Domestic Art Galleries
Co-Speaker: Analays Alvarez Hernandez, Assistant Professsor, Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal (former Art History Postdoctoral Fellow)
Saturday, October 17
- Session F.1: Analogy in Art History and Museum Practice
Chair: Mark Cheetham, Professor, Department of Art History, University of Toronto - Session F.1.3: China’s Millets and the Contested Contemporaneity in the Chinese Art World
Speaker: Yi Gu, Associate Professor, Graduate Department of Art History, University of Toronto