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March 14, 2026 11:00 am

Twenty-Third Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art

Please join us on Saturday, March 14, 11am-4:00pm (online)

This event is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art

Register here: www.tinyurl.com/AHNCAgrad-symposium

Distinguished Respondent: S. Hollis Clayson

Keynote Lecture: Amy F. Ogata

11:00am Eastern: Welcome by Nancy Locke, AHNCA President; Michelle Foa, AHNCA Programs Chair; and J. David Farmer, Director, Dahesh Museum of Art

11:10–11:25am: Nathanaël Lapierre, Northwestern University, “It must be marble”: Marble, Bronze, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Martinique”

11:30–11:45am: Taylor Van Doorne, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Historicism, Temporality, & Ephemeral Architecture in Restoration France”

11:45–12pm:  Q&A with S. Hollis Clayson and audience

12–12:45pm: Lunch Break

12:45–1pm: Tai Mitsuji, Harvard University, “Building a Barricade: Manet, Tracing, and the Structures of Political Repetition”

1:05–1:20: Nina Reid, Radboud University Nijmegen, “An Englishman in New York. Francis Seymour Haden’s Lectures on Etching in America”

1:25–1:40pm: Q&A with S. Hollis Clayson and audience

1:40–1:50pm: Break

1:50–2:05pm: Isabelle Sagraves, University College London, “‘Baptême japonais’: Transformation and the Self in Félix Buhot’s Japonisme Etchings”

2:10–2:25pm: Haley Pierce, Emory University, “Reevaluating Bonnard through Degas: The Early Bathers”

2:25–2:40pm: Q&A with S. Hollis Clayson and audience

2:40–2:50pm: Break

2:55–3:35pm: Lecture by Professor Amy Ogata

3:35–3:45pm: Q&A with Amy Ogata and audience

3:50pm: closing remarks by Nancy Locke and Michelle Foa

Conclusion of Symposium

Technical Director: Tannaz Amin

Jury: J. David Farmer, Michelle Foa, Nancy Locke, David O’Brien, James Rubin