10:00 am Keynote Speaker, Dr. Marcus B. Burke, Senior Curator, The Hispanic Society of America

10:30 am Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Seeing and Believing: The Mass of Saint Gregory Featherwork from the Franciscan College in Mexico City”

10:50 am Kate E. Holohan, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, “Gods, Temples, and Sacrifice in Bernard and Picart’s Mexico City”

11:10 am Maya Jiménez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, “Latin American Primitivism on View at the 1889 Exposition Universelle”

11:30 am Brief discussion and lunch.

12:30 pm Lauren Kaplan, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Crossing the Atlantic: Emilio Pettoruti and the Rise of Argentine Modernism”

12:50 pm Heather Reyes, Masters Program in Art History, Hunter College, CUNY, “Joaquín Torres-García and Cercle et Carre: The Formation of Universal Constructivism”

1:10pm Carolyn Yates, Ph.D. Student, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “The Mexican Embassy Murals in Washington DC: The Converging Imagery of Mexicanidad and Tourism”

1:30pm Alberto McKelligan, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Transnational Feminist Artistic Practice: Mónica Mayer and the Feminist Studi Workshop, 1978-1993”

 2:00pm Brief discussion and refreshments