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Thursday, April 3, 2008

The Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote Address

Dr. Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Art and Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “Design History or Design in History? Issues and Consequences”

Reception

The Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Fund is an endowed fund established by the family, friends, and associates of the late Catherine Hoover Voorsanger. A distinguished scholar, esteemed curator, and gifted speaker, Catherine Hoover Voorsanger was an Advisor and Adjunct Professor at the MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design for more than ten years. She touched the lives of a generation of students with her accessibility, dazzling lectures, infectious enthusiasm, energy, and passion.

Friday, April 4, 2008

• Kristina Lyn Preussner, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture; “Tears of the Heliades: The William Arnold Buffum Collection of Amber.”
• Allison Krier, Parsons The New School for Design and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design; “Fashioning Modernism: Lilly Reich and The Velvet and Silk Café”
• Nitzan Waisberg, Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum MA Program in the History of Design; “The Cabled Object”

• Katerina Romanenko, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; "Multiple Faces of Photomontage: Visual Language of the Soviet Periodical Press in the 1930s"
• Clare Vogel, University of Wisconsin--Madison; “Tracing Change in House & Home: The Birth of Consumerism in Mongolia under Soviet Occupation”
• Discussion