GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

The Graduate Symposium constitutes the keystone academic event of each student’s final semester. All students in their second year deliver a paper at the Symposium and participate in its proceedings. Papers are based on a Qualifying Paper (QP) undertaken during a student’s course of study in the Program and further developed over a sequence of dry runs that precede the Symposium. The Symposium falls on graduation weekend and constitutes a significant event for the art history community in Williamstown. A text version of the final talk, augmented by scholarly apparatus, is deposited in the College Archives and the Clark Library.


Program of the Fourteenth Annual Spring Symposium
THE CLASS OF 2009

Friday, June 5

RUTHIE DIBBLE The Hands That Rock the Cradle
REBEKAH FLAKE Migrating Landscapes in Contemporary African Photography
VERONIKA TOTOS Camera Choreography and Empathy in Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies
DIANA MERYL NAWI Karaoke in the Gallery
REBECCA SHAYKIN The Scorpionic Art of Tracey Moffatt and Niki de Saint Phalle
MELINA DOERRING Strange Faces in the Renaissance Mask
ERICA DIBENEDETTO Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, and Autobiography
ANDREA DANA GYORODY Sigmar Polke and the Power of Suggestion
JAMIE ANN SANECKI Sin, Sacrifice, and Salvation in Medieval Modena
KATE ALBERT Dying for Freedom in Horace Vernet’s The Polish Prometheus
LAYLA BERMEO Winslow Homer’s Wartime Women