Teaching Western and Non-Western Art History: Starting a Global Conversation

Time: 02/05/2016, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM
Location: Wilson A, Mezzanine Level

Education Committee

Chairs: Aditi Chandra, University of California, Merced; Leda Cempellin, South Dakota State University

Mediating the West/Non-West Divide: What is the Significance of Art to Humanity?
Kristen L. Chiem, Pepperdine University

Teaching Latin American Art and Race in the Global Survey: Deconstructing ‘Western’ and ‘Non-Western’ Art Histories
Abigail Lapin Dardashti, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

A Pedagogical Turn: Shifting Center/Periphery in Qatar’s Art History Curriculum
Radha J. Dalal, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar

Teaching Where It’s At: “Islamic Art” in Cairo
Ellen Kenney, The American University, Cairo

Contesting Conventions in an Art History Class – The Pakistani Way
Sadia Pasha Kamran, University of the Punjab, Lahore

Designing Art History Courses: Teaching Local and Thinking Global
Nina Murayama, Tamagawa University, Tokyo

Discussant: James P. Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago