Strangers in a Strange Land: Art, Aesthetics and Displacement
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Nov 09, 2012 from 09:30 AM to 05:30 PM |
| Where | Hammer Museum |
| Contact Name | Claudia Bestor, Director of Public Programming, Hammer Museum |
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Dividing Line, 2001, Zarina
Woodcut printed in black on handmade Nepalese paper. Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Graphic Arts.
Strangers in a Strange Land: Art, Aesthetics and Displacement
This symposium, organized by Saloni Mathur and Aamir Mufti is held in conjunction with the exhibition Zarina: Paper Like Skin, curated by Allegra Pesenti of the Hammer’s Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. It brings together world-renowned scholars in the humanities to consider questions of dispossession, displacement, and the exilic imagination in modern art and aesthetic thinking.
Participants include: Homi Bhabha, Harvard University (opening address); Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University; Hannah Feldman, Northwestern University; Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago; Sonal Khullar, University of Washington, Seattle; Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University; and Vidya Shah, New Delhi–based vocalist. Andreas Huyssen, the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, delivers the closing address.
DATE: November 9
TIME: 9:30 to 5:30 pm
PLACE: Hammer Museum, Westwood Village
ORGANIZED BY: Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, and Aamir Mufti, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
COSPONSORS:Department of Comparative Literature;UCLA Center for the Study of Women; David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities; Christopher Waterman, Dean of Arts and Architecture; and Professor Dan Neuman, Ethnomusicology.
