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You are cordially invited to the\u00a042nd Annual Mary L. Cornille (GRS \u201987) Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture<\/a>, occurring Friday, April 10th in the Photonics Building, Room 210 and Saturday, April 11th, 2026 in the Trustee Room at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.<\/span><\/p>\nThe theme for this year\u2019s symposium is \u201cMaterial Ecologies: Connecting Care, Nature, and Identity.\u201d The symposium aims to center materiality and feminist critique as lenses for environmental inquiry in art history, investigating how artists depict, consider, and collaborate with more-than-human beings to refigure humanity\u2019s own relationships with the world around us.<\/span><\/p>\n Further, we are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for this year\u2019s symposium is Dr. Jennie Klein, Professor of Contemporary Art History at Ohio University. Her lecture, entitled, \u201cEcofeminism and Anti-Racist Politics in the Work of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6,\u201d should be most compelling and thought provoking. More information about the keynote lecture can be found here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n This year\u2019s symposium will begin with the keynote lecture at 5 pm on April 10th in room 210 in the Photonics Building. The second day will be on April 11th, taking place at the Museum of Fine Arts in the Trustees Room, from 10 – 3 pm. There will be two graduate panels and a luncheon! There will be light refreshments provided for both days of the symposium.<\/span><\/p>\n Keynote Speaker: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mary L. Cornille (GRS’87) Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture 2026 Symposium: Material Ecologies: Connecting Care, Nature, and Identity You are cordially invited to the\u00a042nd Annual Mary L. Cornille (GRS \u201987) Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture, occurring Friday, April 10th in the Photonics Building, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3928,"featured_media":17235,"parent":10446,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18069,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/312\/revisions\/18069"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Dr. Jennie Klein<\/strong>
\nProfessor of Contemporary Art History, Ohio University
\nTalk Title<\/strong>: \u201cEcofeminism and Anti-Racist Politics in the Work of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u201d
\n[more information here<\/a>]<\/p>\nThis event is generously sponsored by Mary L. Cornille (GRS \u201987). For inquiries, please email artsymp@bu.edu<\/a>.<\/h5>\n
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