The Washington University in St. Louis Department of Art History and Archaeology will host its fifth biennial Graduate Student Art History Symposium (GSAHS) titled Making Contact: Haptic, Temporal, Spatial, and Conceptual Connections on February 23rd and 24th. The event will be held entirely in person on the Danforth Campus of Washington University and includes a keynote by Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, panels of graduate student speakers, an accompanying art project, and museum and exhibition visits.

Emilie Gordenker, Director, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Dr. Alastair Wright, Associate Professor, Saint John's College, Oxford University

Please join us a series of three lectures on Tuesday, April 9th from 5:00-6:45pm at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Dr. John Klein, Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in Saint Louis

Please join us for a lecture by Professor Jill Jarvis, Associate Professor of French at Yale University, and a screening of Amira Khalfallah’s award-winning short film, Esseghayra (Miss) (2020), followed by an artist-scholar discussion and Q&A.

John Powers, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, Washington University in Saint Louis

Michelle Komie Publisher at Princeton University Press (Art, Architectural & Urban History) and WashU alum will speak about the state of academic publishing today and will take questions.

Faye Gleisser, Associate Professor of Art History and Critical Theory, Indiana University, Bloomington

Dr. Lisa Voigt, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University

Dr. Alyssa Quintanilla, Assistant Professor of English, United States Naval Academy