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ART, ETHNICITY, and GLOBALIZATION
Gathering of Internationally Renowned Artists and Scholars
The INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES IN THE VISUAL ARTS announces its Second Annual Harlem Symposium. Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization, will be held January 7-8, 2010.
The IDSVA symposium takes up the question of art, ethnicity, and globalization in the context of Harlem’s past and future as an international center for the arts and culture. Major speakers include:
January 7 Not open to the public |
Robert Steele Executive Director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland. |
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January 7 @ 6pm Free and open to the public |
Liam Gillick is one of the most important artists of the 21st century. He was chosen to represent Germany at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is currently presenting his mid-career retrospective, "Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario."
Seth Kim-Cohen is Director of the School and Assistant Professor of Art and Theory at IDSVA. |
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January 8, 2:15 pm - 5.30 pm |
John Rajchman Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, author of The Deleuze Connections (MIT 2000). Lecture Title: "What is Contemporary?" and Wai Chee Dimock William Lampson Professor of Literature, Yale University, and author of Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (U of California P, 1996). Lecture Title: "Literature as Public Humanities" |
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According to IDSVA president George Smith, “Harlem’s ongoing development as a cosmopolitan art site is about art and culture worldwide. The symposium underscores Harlem’s ever emerging identity as an intensely global phenomenon.”
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