Course: Senior Conference I - bmc.HART.B398.001.F26

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HART 398: Senior Conference I

Tuesday, 2:10-4:00, Instructors: Professor Dasol Kim and Sylvia Houghteling

Theory and method seminar for senior History of Art majors.

Xu Bing, Bronze Phoenix, Bronze with colored patina, 2015

Office Hours

Dasol Kim: 1-2 PM, 4:10-5:10 PM Old Library 215
- Select activity Announcements
  
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  Announcements Forum
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  Announcements Forum
- Select activity Link to Zoom for Virtual Attendance
  
  Link to Zoom for Virtual Attendance URL
  
  Please contact Professors Kim and Houghteling as early as possible if you need to attend remotely so that we can be sure the Zoom is open.
- Select activity Syllabus:
  
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- Select activity HART 398_Syllabus_Fall 2026
  
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- Select activity Hatt and Klonk PDF
  
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- Select activity Access Services 
  
  Access Services
- Select activity Links to research and writing resources:
  
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  Links to research and writing resources:
- Select activity Tripod: Trico Libraries' Research Guide for Art & Art History
  
  Tripod: Trico Libraries' Research Guide for Art & Art History URL
  
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- Select activity TriArte: Art and Artifacts Database for Trico collections of objects
  
  TriArte: Art and Artifacts Database for Trico collections of objects URL
  
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- Select activity Link to Bryn Mawr's Citation Resource for Chicago Manual of Style
  
  Link to Bryn Mawr's Citation Resource for Chicago Manual of Style URL
- Select activity Appointments with History of Art research Librarian LAURA SURTEES
  
  Appointments with History of Art research Librarian LAURA SURTEES URL
  
  Carpenter Research Librarian Laura Surtees offer fantastic research support for the History of Art
- Select activity The Bryn Mawr Writing Center
  
  The Bryn Mawr Writing Center URL
- Select activity The Haverford Writing Center
  
  The Haverford Writing Center URL
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Topic 1
- Select activity Guidelines for presenters and respondents:
  
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- Select activity Writing Assignment 1: Brainstorm Three Thesis Topi...
  
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  Writing Assignment 1: Brainstorm Three Thesis Topics (due 11:59, Monday, September 14)
- Select activity HART 398 Assignment 1 Instructions
  
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- Select activity Assignment 1: due midnight, Monday, September 14
  
  Assignment 1: due midnight, Monday, September 14
  
  Opened: Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Monday, September 14, 2026, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Writing Assignment 2: Analysis of an Art Bulletin ...
  
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  Writing Assignment 2: Analysis of an Art Bulletin Article (selection of article due 11:59, Monday, September 21; essay due 11:59, Monday, October 5)
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- Select activity Assignment 2, Part I: due midnight, Monday, September 21
  
  Assignment 2, Part I: due midnight, Monday, September 21
  
  Opened: Monday, September 1, 2025, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Monday, September 21, 2026, 11:59 PM
  
  Use the space below to provide the citation for the Art Bulletin article you have selected for Assignment 2. Please use Chicago Style for your citation. Then briefly (one paragraph) explain the reasons you selected the article and how it relates to your emerging thesis topic or the interests that inform the current direction of your thinking about your thesis topic.
  
  How is The Art Bulletin article you chose relevant to your thesis? Or – if you have not yet defined the theme or topic of your thesis – how is The Art Bulletin article you selected relevant to the broader interests you have, and from which you will be generating the topic of your thesis? How has the process of selecting the article helped to identify the interests you want to build from and explore more in your thesis?
  
  The article should be a full-length article (approx. 25-40 pp.) and it should come from one of the eight most recent issues of the Art Bulletin which can be accessed here.
- Select activity Art Bulletin on Tripod
  
  Art Bulletin on Tripod URL
  
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  Use the "Taylor & Francis Social Science and Humanities Library" link to access the most recent issues of The Art Bulletin in Tripod.
- Select activity Assignment 2, Part II: due 11:59 pm, Monday October 5
  
  Assignment 2, Part II: due 11:59 pm, Monday October 5
  
  Opened: Tuesday, September 2, 2025, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Monday, October 6, 2025, 11:59 AM
- Select activity Writing Assignment 3: First Draft of a Thesis Prop...
  
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  Writing Assignment 3: First Draft of a Thesis Proposal (due midnight, MONDAY, October 19)
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- Select activity Assignment 3 - First Draft of Thesis Proposal
  
  Assignment 3 - First Draft of Thesis Proposal
  
  Opens: Thursday, October 1, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Monday, October 19, 2026, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Writing Assignment 4: Annotated Bibliography (due ...
  
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  Writing Assignment 4: Annotated Bibliography (due midnight, Monday, November 23)
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- Select activity Assignment 4: due 11:59, Monday, Nov 23
  
  Assignment 4: due 11:59, Monday, Nov 23
  
  Opened: Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Monday, November 23, 2026, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Writing Assignment 5: Final Thesis Proposal (due 1...
  
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  Writing Assignment 5: Final Thesis Proposal (due 12:30pm, Tuesday, December 15)
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- Select activity Assignment 5: due 12:30pm, Tuesday, December 15
  
  Assignment 5: due 12:30pm, Tuesday, December 15
  
  Opened: Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Tuesday, December 15, 2026, 12:30 PM
Select section September 1: Preliminaries

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September 1: Preliminaries
- Select activity Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk, Art History: A C...
  
  Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk, Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), 1-20.
- Select activity Blog Post # 1: Please respond to the following prompt by 5:00 pm on Friday, September 4
  
  Blog Post # 1: Please respond to the following prompt by 5:00 pm on Friday, September 4 Forum
  
  Due: Friday, September 4, 2026, 5:00 PM
  
  Reflect on courses you have taken or plan to take this semester/year in HART and related disciplines. What ideas have excited you most? What papers, projects, etc. stand out for you as most intriguing, rewarding, etc.? How might you start to define a thesis project that builds from those interests and excitements? One brief paragraph is sufficient for this blog post. Thank you!
- Select activity Hatt and Klonk Introduction pp. 1-8
  
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- Select activity Hatt and Klonk _ Interpretations 11-20
  
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Select section September 8: On the Origins and Futures of Art History: Foundations and Foundational Biases

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September 8: On the Origins and Futures of Art History: Foundations and Foundational Biases
- Select activity Student preferences for discussion leading sessions due to Moodle by 11:59, Monday, September 7
  
  Student preferences for discussion leading sessions due to Moodle by 11:59, Monday, September 7 Forum
  
  Due: Monday, September 7, 2026, 11:59 PM
  
  Each student will lead or co-lead one session this semester as indicated on the syllabus. Please reflect on the topics available for student presentations and choose your first and second choices. You might prioritize topics that provide an opportunity to consider bodies of theory or types of methodologies that you anticipate foregrounding in your thesis. In the blog post, indicate these choices and your reasons.
- Select activity Required reading: (copy)
  
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- Select activity Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk, Art History: A C...
  
  Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk, Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), 21-39.
- Select activity Shao Yiyang, “Wither Art History,” Art Bulletin 98.2 (2016): 147-50.
  
  Shao Yiyang, “Wither Art History,” Art Bulletin 98.2 (2016): 147-50. File
  
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- Select activity Alicia Walker, “‘The Art that Does Not Think’: Byzantine ‘Decorative Arts’ – History and Limits of a Concept,” in Colum Hourihane, ed., From minor to major: the minor arts in Medieval art history (Princeton, NJ, 2012), 169-93.
  
  Alicia Walker, “‘The Art that Does Not Think’: Byzantine ‘Decorative Arts’ – History and Limits of a Concept,” in Colum Hourihane, ed., From minor to major: the minor arts in Medieval art history (Princeton, NJ, 2012), 169-93. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Student preferences for presentation topics due to...
  
  Student preferences for presentation topics due to Moodle by midnight, Monday, September 7 (submit via "Assignment" section above)
Select section September 15: Critical Questions in a Global Art History

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September 15: Critical Questions in a Global Art History
- Select activity Required reading: (copy)
  
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- Select activity Hatt and Klonk, Art History, pp. 223-40.
  
  Hatt and Klonk, Art History, pp. 223-40.
- Select activity Dasol Kim, “Domesticating the Body of the Exotic Other: The Multisensory Use of a Sixteenth-Century Brass Candlestick,” in Das Mittelalter, Zeitschrift des Mediävistenverbandes 25, issue 2 (November 2020): 311–337.
  
  Dasol Kim, “Domesticating the Body of the Exotic Other: The Multisensory Use of a Sixteenth-Century Brass Candlestick,” in Das Mittelalter, Zeitschrift des Mediävistenverbandes 25, issue 2 (November 2020): 311–337. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Linda Nochlin, “The Imaginary Orient” in The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth Century Art (London: Routledge, 1989), 33-59.
  
  Linda Nochlin, “The Imaginary Orient” in The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth Century Art (London: Routledge, 1989), 33-59. File
  
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- Select activity First Writing Assignment (Brainstorming Thesis Top...
  
  First Writing Assignment (Brainstorming Thesis Topics) due to Moodle by 11:59 pm, Monday, September 14 (submit via "Assignment" section above).
Select section September 22: Workshop: Archives and Collections (Meet in Special Collections Seminar Room, Canaday Library, second floor, room 205)

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September 22: Workshop: Archives and Collections (Meet in Special Collections Seminar Room, Canaday Library, second floor, room 205)
- Select activity Required reading:
  
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- Select activity Monique Scott, “Excavating Whiteness in the African Archive,” Penn Museum African Galleries: From Maker to Museum, 1-11.
  
  Monique Scott, “Excavating Whiteness in the African Archive,” Penn Museum African Galleries: From Maker to Museum, 1-11. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Constance Classen and David Howes, “The Museum as Sensescape: Western Sensibilities and Indigenous Artifacts.” In Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture (Oxford: Berg, 2006), 199–222.
  
  Constance Classen and David Howes, “The Museum as Sensescape: Western Sensibilities and Indigenous Artifacts.” In Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture (Oxford: Berg, 2006), 199–222. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Part I of Writing Assignment Two (Art Bulletin Art...
  
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  Part I of Writing Assignment Two (Art Bulletin Article Analysis) due to Moodle by midnight, Monday, September 21 (access submission portal in the "Assignment" module above)
- Select activity Optional additional reading:
  
  Optional additional reading:
- Select activity Special Collections Blog: "Confronting the Legacies of Racism and Colonialism in Special Collections"
  
  Special Collections Blog: "Confronting the Legacies of Racism and Colonialism in Special Collections" URL
- Select activity Timeline of African Arts Collection at Bryn Mawr College
  
  Timeline of African Arts Collection at Bryn Mawr College URL
  
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- Select activity African Materials in Special Collections, Library Guide
  
  African Materials in Special Collections, Library Guide URL
  
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Select section September 29: Formalism

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September 29: Formalism
Presenter:

Respondents:
- Select activity Required reading: (copy)
  
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- Select activity Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 65-95.
  
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  Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 65-95.
- Select activity Alois Riegl, Stilfragen (1893), excerpt from the translation: Problems of Style: Foundations for a History of Ornament, trans. Evelyn Kain (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992), 3-13 and 48-53.
  
  Alois Riegl, Stilfragen (1893), excerpt from the translation: Problems of Style: Foundations for a History of Ornament, trans. Evelyn Kain (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992), 3-13 and 48-53. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Margaret Olin, “‘Look at Your Fish’: Science, Modernism and Alois Riegl’s Formal Practice” in German Art History and Scientific Thought, ed. Mitchell B. Frank and Daniel Adler (Routledge, 2012) 33-55
  
  Margaret Olin, “‘Look at Your Fish’: Science, Modernism and Alois Riegl’s Formal Practice” in German Art History and Scientific Thought, ed. Mitchell B. Frank and Daniel Adler (Routledge, 2012) 33-55 File PDF
  
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Select section October 6: Social Art History

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October 6: Social Art History
- Select activity Second Writing Assignment (Part II: essay Art Bull...
  
  Second Writing Assignment (Part II: essay Art Bulletin article analysis) due to Moodle midnight, Monday, October 5 (submit via portal in "Assignments" module, above)
- Select activity Required reading: (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy)
  
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- Select activity Hatt and Klonk, Art History, pp. 120-142.
  
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  Hatt and Klonk, Art History, pp. 120-142.
- Select activity T.J. Clark, “Olympia’s Choice,” in The Painting of Modern Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 79-95; 116-119; 146
  
  T.J. Clark, “Olympia’s Choice,” in The Painting of Modern Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 79-95; 116-119; 146 File
  
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  **Please note that we will be reading selections from this text (pp. 79-95; 116-119; 146). You can also follow the "start" "pause" instructions in the PDF.
- Select activity Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, “Still Thinking about Olympia’s Maid,” The Art Bulletin 97.4 (2015): 430-51.
  
  Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, “Still Thinking about Olympia’s Maid,” The Art Bulletin 97.4 (2015): 430-51. File
  
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Select section October 13: Fall Break, no class

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October 13: Fall Break, no class
Select section October 20: Connoisseurship (Meet in Special Collections Seminar Room, Canaday Library, second floor, room 205)

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October 20: Connoisseurship (Meet in Special Collections Seminar Room, Canaday Library, second floor, room 205)
- Select activity Third Writing Assignment (Preliminary Thesis Propo...
  
  Third Writing Assignment (Preliminary thesis proposal) due to Moodle midnight, Monday, October 19 (submit via portal in "Assignments" module, above)
- Select activity Required reading: (copy) (copy)
  
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  Required reading:
- Select activity Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 40-64.
  
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  Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 40-64.
- Select activity Catherine B. Scallen, ‘Do mistakes always matter? Jakob Rosenberg’s Rembrandt Life and Work’ Journal of Art Historiography 16 (2017), 1-8.
  
  Catherine B. Scallen, ‘Do mistakes always matter? Jakob Rosenberg’s Rembrandt Life and Work’ Journal of Art Historiography 16 (2017), 1-8. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Freyda Spira et al., "What is printmaking?" online essay with video demonstrations of different printmaking techniques, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
  Freyda Spira et al., "What is printmaking?" online essay with video demonstrations of different printmaking techniques, Metropolitan Museum of Art URL
  
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- Select activity Printmaking Techniques - in preparation for our Connoisseurship Discussion
  
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- Select activity Recent Reattribution of a Rembrandt Print - NY Times Article
  
  Recent Reattribution of a Rembrandt Print - NY Times Article URL
Select section October 27: Materiality

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October 27: Materiality
- Select activity Required reading: (copy) (copy) (copy)
  
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- Select activity Jules David Prown, “Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method,” Winterthur Portfolio 17.1 (1982): 1-19.
  
  Jules David Prown, “Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method,” Winterthur Portfolio 17.1 (1982): 1-19. File
  
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- Select activity Michael Yonan, “Toward a Fusion of Art History and Material Culture Studies,” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 18.2 (2011): 232-48.
  
  Michael Yonan, “Toward a Fusion of Art History and Material Culture Studies,” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 18.2 (2011): 232-48. File
  
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- Select activity Sylvia Houghteling, "Beyond Ice Cooling through Cloth, Scent, and Hue in Eighteenth-Century South Asia"
  
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Select section November 3: Iconography

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November 3: Iconography
- Select activity Required reading: (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy)
  
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- Select activity Hatt and Klonk, Art History, pp. 96-119.
  
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  Hatt and Klonk, Art History, pp. 96-119.
- Select activity Panofsky, Erwin. “Iconography and Iconology: An Introduction to the Study of Renaissance Art.” In Meaning in the Visual Arts: Papers in and on Art History. By Erwin Panofsky, 26–54. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955.
  
  Panofsky, Erwin. “Iconography and Iconology: An Introduction to the Study of Renaissance Art.” In Meaning in the Visual Arts: Papers in and on Art History. By Erwin Panofsky, 26–54. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Jie Shi, “The Overseeing Mother: Revisiting the Frontal-Pose Lady in the Wu Family Shrines in Second-Century China,” Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies (2015): 263–93.
  
  Jie Shi, “The Overseeing Mother: Revisiting the Frontal-Pose Lady in the Wu Family Shrines in Second-Century China,” Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies (2015): 263–93. File
  
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Select section November 10 Workshop: Research Tools and Library Skills

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November 10 Workshop: Research Tools and Library Skills
Session with Laura Surtees, Research and Instruction Librarian and Coordinator of Rhys Carpenter Library
- Select activity Forum post due Monday, November 9 midnight
  
  Forum post due Monday, November 9 midnight
  
  Due: Monday, November 9, 2026, 11:59 PM
  
  We will be holding a class session on research methods with Laura Surtees on Tuesday, November 10.
  
  Before this session, reflect on the research you have conducted during your time at Bryn Mawr, including the research you have begun for your thesis. What techniques did you employ that felt successful? When did you feel like you ran up against a wall or found a “dead end”? Were you able to work past this impasse? If so, how?
  
  As you have attempted to articulate your initial ideas for the thesis and cited images, readings, etc., what challenges did you encounter in amassing the resources you will need? After reflecting on this question, articulate at least one question that would help you progress with your thesis research and prepare to ask that question during our meeting with Laura Surtees.
- Select activity HART 398 Research Guide
  
  HART 398 Research Guide URL
  
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  A good place to begin your exploration of databases, dictionaries, encyclopedia, and other reference and research resources to jumpstart your exploration of existing bibliography and image collections of relevance to your emerging thesis topic.
Select section November 17: Semiotics

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November 17: Semiotics
- Select activity Required reading: (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy)
  
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- Select activity Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 200-222.
  
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  Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 200-222.
- Select activity Roland Barthes, Mythologies, 1957 (1972) (selectio...
  
  Roland Barthes, Mythologies, 1957 (1972) (selections)
- Select activity Homay King, Myths for an Age of Lies and Marble for an Age of Walls
  
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- Select activity Roland Barthes, Mythologies (1972) : selections
  
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Select section November 24: Psychoanalysis

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November 24: Psychoanalysis
- Select activity Required reading: (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy)
  
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- Select activity Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 174-199.
  
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  Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 174-199.
- Select activity C.C. McKee, “Bare Feet, or, The Ambivalence of Emancipation: Camille Pissarro and the Caribbean,” in Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World, eds. Huey Copeland and Steven Nelson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 56-77 and 232-34.
  
  C.C. McKee, “Bare Feet, or, The Ambivalence of Emancipation: Camille Pissarro and the Caribbean,” in Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World, eds. Huey Copeland and Steven Nelson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 56-77 and 232-34. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Sigmund Freud, "Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood" (Pages 82-118, 130-137/Sections 3, 4, and 6 are most crucial to understanding this early application of psychoanalysis to art history)
  
  Sigmund Freud, "Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood" (Pages 82-118, 130-137/Sections 3, 4, and 6 are most crucial to understanding this early application of psychoanalysis to art history) File PDF
  
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- Select activity Fourth Writing Assignment (revised bibliography, i...
  
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  Fourth Writing Assignment (revised bibliography, images, statement) due to Moodle midnight, Monday, November 23 (submit via portal in "Assignment" module, above).
Select section December 1: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body

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December 1: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
- Select activity Required reading: (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy) (copy)
  
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- Select activity Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 145-73.
  
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  Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 145-73.
- Select activity David J. Getsy and Che Gossett, “A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History,” Art Journal 80.4 (2021): 100-115.
  
  David J. Getsy and Che Gossett, “A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History,” Art Journal 80.4 (2021): 100-115. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema," from Visual and Other Pleasures
  
  Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema," from Visual and Other Pleasures File PDF
  
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- Select activity Lisa Saltzman, “Reconsidering the Stain: On Gender and the Body in Helen Frankenthaler’s Painting,” in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism, Broude & Garrard, eds. (Berkeley:, 2005), 373-83.
  
  Lisa Saltzman, “Reconsidering the Stain: On Gender and the Body in Helen Frankenthaler’s Painting,” in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism, Broude & Garrard, eds. (Berkeley:, 2005), 373-83. File
  
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Select section December 8: Conclusion: Whither Art History? Whither your thesis? and Workshop on Writing Strategies

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December 8: Conclusion: Whither Art History? Whither your thesis? and Workshop on Writing Strategies
Session with History of Art Graduate Student Writing Tutor from the Bryn Mawr Writing Center
- Select activity Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 241-44.
  
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  Hatt and Klonk, Art History, 241-44.
- Select activity Blog Post due Monday, December 7 midnight
  
  Blog Post due Monday, December 7 midnight Forum
  
  Due: Monday, December 7, 2026, 11:59 PM
  
  How have you come to understand and define the discipline of art history over the course of this semester? In what ways is your current understanding an affirmation of how you conceived of our field before? In what ways has your understanding changed? How do you see your thesis as representative of your primary investments in our discipline? Where do you see your project intersecting with established art historical methods and theories? Where do you see your project engaging with new or emerging directions of the discipline?
Select section Final proposals due Tuesday, Dec. 15, 12:30pm

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Final proposals due Tuesday, Dec. 15, 12:30pm
- Select activity Submit final thesis proposal here
  
  Submit final thesis proposal here Assignment
  
  Opens: Saturday, November 28, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Tuesday, December 15, 2026, 12:30 PM
Select section Supplementary Readings (all optional, suggestions for further reading)

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Supplementary Readings (all optional, suggestions for further reading)
- Select activity Andrew Zimmerman, “Primitive Art, Primitive Accumulation, and the Origin of the Work of Art in German New Guinea,” History of the Present 1, no. 1 (2011): 5-30
  
  Andrew Zimmerman, “Primitive Art, Primitive Accumulation, and the Origin of the Work of Art in German New Guinea,” History of the Present 1, no. 1 (2011): 5-30 File PDF
  
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- Select activity bell hooks “Theory as Liberatory Practice,” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 4 (1991): 1-12.
  
  bell hooks “Theory as Liberatory Practice,” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 4 (1991): 1-12. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Alicia Walker, “Globalism,” in Medieval Art History Today – Critical Terms, Nina Rowe, ed., special issue of Studies in Iconography 33 (2012): 183-96.
  
  Alicia Walker, “Globalism,” in Medieval Art History Today – Critical Terms, Nina Rowe, ed., special issue of Studies in Iconography 33 (2012): 183-96. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Decolonizing Art History, Art History (2020)
  
  Decolonizing Art History, Art History (2020) File PDF
  
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- Select activity Finbarr Barry Flood, “Picasso the Muslim: Or How the Bilderverbot Became Modern” RES 67/68 (2016/2017): 42-60.
  
  Finbarr Barry Flood, “Picasso the Muslim: Or How the Bilderverbot Became Modern” RES 67/68 (2016/2017): 42-60. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Michael Baxandall, “The Period Eye,” in Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 29-40, 56-71, and 86-102.
  
  Michael Baxandall, “The Period Eye,” in Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 29-40, 56-71, and 86-102. File
  
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- Select activity Anna Chave, “New Encounters with Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon: Gender, Race and the Origins of Cubism,” Art Bulletin 76 (1994): 597-611.
  
  Anna Chave, “New Encounters with Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon: Gender, Race and the Origins of Cubism,” Art Bulletin 76 (1994): 597-611. File
  
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Section outline

HART 398: Senior Conference I

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Writing Assignment 1: Brainstorm Three Thesis Topics (due 11:59, Monday, September 14)

Writing Assignment 2: Analysis of an Art Bulletin Article (selection of article due 11:59, Monday, September 21; essay due 11:59, Monday, October 5)

Writing Assignment 3: First Draft of a Thesis Proposal (due midnight, MONDAY, October 19)

Writing Assignment 4: Annotated Bibliography (due midnight, Monday, November 23)

Writing Assignment 5: Final Thesis Proposal (due 12:30pm, Tuesday, December 15)

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Third Writing Assignment (Preliminary thesis proposal) due to Moodle midnight, Monday, October 19 (submit via portal in "Assignments" module, above)

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