Event Details

End: October 17, 2015
Contact: AmericanArtSymposium[at]si.edu
More Info: http://www.americanart.si.edu/research/symposia/2015/terra/

Shifting Terrain: Mapping a Transnational American Art History

October 16-17, 2015

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

The increasing internationalization of the study of American art has altered the topography of the discipline in ways that are widely acknowledged but not yet clearly defined. This two-day event will map out the changes that are occurring in the field of American art as it becomes thoroughly entangled with a global art history. How is an emphasis on transnationalism shaping the questions we ask of American art and the topics we investigate? How is our approach to American art different than it was ten years ago? What is the future of an American art history? Sessions will examine current trends of inquiry and suggest new directions and unexplored territories.

Shifting Terrain: Mapping a Transnational American Art History is the capstone event in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s five-part series Terra Symposia on American Art in a Global Context, initiated in 2006 in response to the global turn. Speakers include, among others: Cécile Whiting, Jennifer L. Roberts, Vanessa Schwartz, Alex J. Taylor, ShiPu Wang, Estelle Blaschke, Melody Barnett Deusner, Jacqueline Francis, Yuko Kikuchi, Jennifer Jane Marshall, and Fred Turner.

For more information, please visit AmericanArt.si.edu/research/symposia/2015/terra/.