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SATURDAY
MARCH 16th, 2024
10:00 AM- 6:00 PM ​
HART HOUSE MUSIC ROOM
7 Hart House Circle
Toronto

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Don't worry, we'll still provide paper programmes on the day of the symposium!

Programme

Our programme for the 2024 Annual Undergraduate Symposium DE/CIPHER is here! Stay tuned for more conversations about art history, culture, and society. 

10:00
Registration
10:20

Ava Stedman and Minnie Koppenheffer

Opening Remarks & Land Acknowledgement
10:30

Guest Artist Keynote

Micah Lexier
11:30
Dana Lee
Flowers: The Zeitgeist of Dutch Still Life
11:45

Panel 1 

Celine Huang
Piecing together the Hwarot (闊衣/활옷):  Joseon Korea’s Traditional Wedding Dress
12:00
Sofia Stefani 
A Standpoint on af Klint’s Standpoints of World Religions
12:15

HASA Presents

Questions & Answers
12:30
Lunch
1:45
Yolande Hanson
The Syphilitic Serenissima: Corrupting the Courtesan in Venetian Popular Prints
2:00

Panel 2 

Anastasia Dumitru
The Power of Baroque Perception: A Study of Borromini’s Galleria Spada
2:15
Elijah Washington
The Heart of Culture: Arthur Jafa's APEX and Black Cultural Digitalization
2:30

HASA Presents

Questions & Answers
2:45
Break
3:00
Allison Zigomanis 
Visualizing the Past: Art Restoration’s Controversial Role in Historical Preservation
3:15

Panel 3 

Courtney Squires

Chiseling the Canon: 

Challenging the Heteronormativity of Desire in Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Pygmalion and Galatea

3:30
Carolyn Moeller 
Pieter de Hooch’s Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard: Colonial Conformity in the Golden Age of the Home
3:45

HASA Presents

Questions & Answers
4:10

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Jessica Mace
Toronto’s Cyclorama: From magical to mundane and back again
5:00
Dinner
5:45

Charlotte Leong and Kelly Zhang

Closing Remarks
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