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On April 10th, Chapman University hosted its fifth annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium. The Symposium, which is organized by the Art History department and the Art History club, is an annual event that allows undergraduate students to share their research. This is a wonderful and rare opportunity for students to present their research before they reach graduate school. Chapman’s 2015 Symposium was the largest yet, and hosted seven speakers from colleges across the United States and Canada, including Dr. Catha Paquette of Cal State Long Beach as the event’s keynote speaker. The Symposium included undergraduate presentations on a wide range of topics, from Korean folk art to contemporary Chicana murals. Below is a list of the Symposium’s 2015 speakers.

Keynote Speaker:

    • Dr. Catha Paquette, Cal State Long Beach Speaking/Giving Voice: Diego Rivera and His Patrons at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller Center, and Mexico City’s Palace of Fine Arts
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      The Symposium’s speakers, from left: Dr. Catha Paquette, Philomena Lopez, Terrill Smith, Matthew Finley, Heather Lee, Siyu Shen

 

Undergraduate Speakers:

    • Heather Lee, Amherst College Manipulating Meanings: Construction of Typological Narratives in Vienna Codex 2554
    • Karen Liu, Chapman University From Image to Text: A Comparative Analysis of the Representation of Prester John in Sixteenth-Century Maps
    • Siyu Shen, Amherst College The Copenhagen Cassoni
    • Matthew Finley, Pepperdine University Imagination and Reality: Landscape and the Folk Culture of Joseon Dynasty Korea
    • Terrill Smith, University of the Fraser Valley The Bauhaus in Europe and America
    • Philomena Lopez, UCLA The Dynamic Intersections of Murals, Power, and Bodies: A Retrospective Examination of Chicana Murals as a Tool for Social Change
    • Alicia Meade, Cal State Fullerton A Comparison of Pre-Columbian Art Exhibitions in Los Angeles’ Anthropological Museum and Fine Art Museum

 

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Chapman University’s Art History Club

Click here for more information on past Undergraduate Art History Symposiums.

 

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