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Lisa Ford‚ Associate Head of Research
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Serena Guerrette‚ Senior Administrative Assistant
serena.guerrette@yale.edu
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Imogen Hart, Postdoctoral Research Associate
imogen.hart@yale.edu | 203 432 6774
Saturday, April 5, 9 am–6:30 pm
The Power of Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics, Morality
Keynote Lecture 5:30 pm
Beauty Matters
Elizabeth Prettejohn, Professor of the History of Art, University of Bristol
This one-day graduate student symposium will explore the aesthetic, political, and moral power of beauty. In 2005 Elizabeth Prettejohn’s book Beauty and Art set out to challenge “the late-twentieth-century view of beauty as irrevocably opposed to any form of responsible politics” by exploring beauty’s “capacity to stimulate fresh thinking and fresh debate.” The symposium will consider the issues surrounding beauty, both within the discipline of art history and more broadly in the arts and humanities, and will evaluate its potential as a subject of intellectual inquiry in today’s academic climate. The program will include breakout sessions in the Center’s special exhibitions and permanent collections. Graduate students from a variety of disciplines across the arts and humanities will present thirty-minute talks. The symposium is free and open to the public; advance registration is recommended.
For a complete schedule, please click
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To register for the symposium, please click
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For information, please email ycba.research@yale.edu.
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