2021 Conference Program
November 6, 2021
Forest Lawn Memorial Museum, Glendale CA
SESSION ONE
Renaissance Receptions and Receptions of the Renaissance
Chair: Ilan Mitchell-Smith (CSU, Long Beach)
Location: Forest Lawn Museum Gallery
Adam Rzepka (Montclair State University), “‘What hath he in his boxe?’: The Enduring Fantasy of Shakespearean Decryption”
Valentina Prosperi (University of Sassari), “Exotic, Familiar Troy: The Dictys-Dares Narrative in Fifteenth Century Italian Art”
Simon Smets (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), “20th-Century Reception of Neo-Latin Authors from the Malatestian
Court in Rimini”
Replication and Reception of Renaissance Art and Artists
Chair: Heather Graham (CSU, Long Beach)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
Pierette Kulpa (Kutztown University), “Michelangelo Buonarroti circa 1911: Copies, Nationalism, and Legends of Authenticity at the 1911 Roman Universal Exposition”
Allan Doyle (Parsons School of Design), “Michelangelo Twice Removed: Théodore Géricault in Santissima Annunziata”
Catherine H. Lusheck (University of San Francisco), “Rubens Reinventing Leonardo in His Early Mature Drawings, c. 1600-1608”
SESSION TWO
Enduring Medievalisms and the Study of the Middle Ages
Chair: James Fishburne (Forest Lawn Museum)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
Peter Brown (University of North Florida), “Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield: A Forgotten Pioneer of Medieval Art History in America”
Kristine Tanton (Université de Montréal), “The Cloister at Saint-Pierre de Moissac after the Middle Ages: Survival and Fragmentary Embodiment”
Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández (Universidad Iberoamericana), “Religious Architecture in Mexico 1850-1920: The Revival of Medieval Aesthetics as an International Statement in the Construction of Local Identities”
Alison Locke Perchuk (CSU, Channel Islands), “Before-and-Afterlives: The Temple of Santa Sabina as Perpetual Anachronism”
Role Playing the Renaissance
Chair: Aleksandra Sherman (Occidental College)
Location: Forest Lawn Museum Gallery
Sarah Ostendorf (Occidental College), “Isn’t It Romantic? Genre, Genealogy, and Alterity”
Shannon McHugh (University of Massachusetts), “Petrarch’s Handbook for Happily Ever After”
Leah Benedict (Kennesaw State University), “The Strange Afterlife of Elizabeth’s Collar”
PRESENTATION: Michelangelo and the 21st Century Sculptor
Christopher Slatoff and James Fishburne (moderator)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
Christopher Slatoff, an artist who specializes in monumental sculpture for universities and churches, will discuss and demonstrate the influence of Michelangelo's sculpture and sculpting techniques on contemporary figurative sculptors.
SESSION THREE
Gender, Race, and Authorship
Chair: Marie Kelleher (CSU, Long Beach)
Location: Forest Lawn Museum Gallery
Kathryn Chew (CSU, Long Beach), “The Reception of an Ancient Greek Novel with an Eastern Theme in 17th-Century France”
Madison Forbes (Fordham University), “Medieval Biofiction: The Afterlife of Medea”
Tara Dybas (UC, Riverside), “Teaching Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (1405): Radical Death Studies and Racialized Spaces”
Modern Medievalisms
Chair: Ilan Mitchell-Smith (CSU, Long Beach)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
Kirstin Noreen (Loyola Marymount University), “Tradition, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Use of Miraculous Images during the Coronavirus Pandemic”
Larisa Grollemond (Getty Museum) and Bryan C. Keene (Riverside City College), “Fantasy Futures: Medievalisms and the Display of Medieval Art in the Museum”
Meaghan Allen (University of Manchester), “‘I’ll be back in the Middle Ages’: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Modern Medieval Text”
PLENARY SESSION
Afterlives, Colonialism, and Indigenous Cultures of the Americas: A Conversation
Moderator: Heather Graham (CSU, Long Beach)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández, Universidad Iberoamericana
Jesse Lerner, Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College
Elena Shtromberg, Professor of Art History, University of Utah
RECEPTION: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
