Graduate Student Symposium: “Modernism Foretold”

This virtual symposium will showcase research by graduate students in Dr. Asen Kirin’s fall 2020 art history seminar course. ​The graduate course and resulting scholarship is focused on the exhibition “Modernism Foretold: The Nadler Collection of Late Antique Art from Egypt,” on view through September 26, 2021. Registration is free. Sign up at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YxlePmLHR5e1cFgW6RArDw.

Symposiarch: Dr. Katherine Marsengill (Brooklyn, NY)

Dr. Marsengill received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art history from the University of Georgia, where Dr. Kirin was her thesis advisor. She also has a master’s degree with distinction and a doctoral degree from Princeton University. She is the author of “Portraits and Icons: Between Reality and Spirituality in Byzantine Art” (2013) and has published articles on late antique art.

Schedule

1 – 1:15 p.m.: Welcome from Dr. William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art

1:15 – 2:15 p.m.: Session One

Noah Dasinger, “Classical Content and Non-classical Form: The Nadler Leda and the Swan Relief and the Theory of Kunstwollen”

Tara Craft, “Tangled Symbols: Exploring Sexuality and Sacred Space through Late Antique Egyptian Hairpins (the ivory hair pin from the Nadler Collection)”

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.: Session Two

Alex Hathaway, “The Christianization of the Classical Architectural Orders: Column and Pilasters Capitals in the Nadler Collection”

Molly A. Stevens, “’Go Down to the Netherworld, Plant Grapes”: The Nadler Bacchus in Context”

3:45 – 4:45 p.m.: Session Three

Lacy Hamilton, “Marsden Hartley and Coptic Textiles: Late Antique Art from Egypt and Modernism in America”

Charlotte Gaillet, “Writing Authentic Histories: Recognizing the Role of Coptic Art Forgeries within Museum Collections”

4:45 – 5 p.m.: General Discussion