Clark Symposia
Clark Symposia offer scholars the opportunity to gather with other experts to discuss a topic, theme, or artist's work. Symposia bring together international panels for intense discussion and debate in a public forum.
Submitting a Proposal
Interested in convening a symposium? Though space on the schedule is limited, we do invite applications to host symposia here. We particularly seek ideas for multidisciplinary events that bring to public notice innovative work and the research of young scholars.
Please contact David Breslin with proposals.
Upcoming Symposium
Scheduled for September 2013
Please check back for upcoming details on the next Clark symposium: Science, Ethics, and the Transformations of Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.
Past Symposia
2008-2012
Photography as Model?
October 13, 2012
Art, Theory, and the Critique of Ideology, 1975–1995
April 21, 2012
Pissarro's Politics in Context: Anarchism and the Arts in France, 1849-1900
September 10, 2011
Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? The Painting of Modern Life Now
October 30 - 31, 2009
Images and Movement: Film Studies and the History of Art
March 13 - 14, 2009
Visions of the Stage: Theater, Art, and Performance in France, 1600-1800
September 12 - 13, 2008
Artistic Crossings of the Black Atlantic: The Migratory Aesthetic in Contemporary Art
March 1, 2008
2003-2007
Ahistoric Occasion: The Uses of History in Contemporary Art
February 23 - 24, 2007, with MASS MoCA
Private Realm and Public Space: The Collector's Museum in the Twenty-First Century
September 16, 2006
The Meaning of Photography
November 19, 2005
Jacques-Louis David: Empire and Exile
June 24 - 25, 2005
American Art Now: Aesthetics and Politics
October 18, 2003
2000-2002
Grave Matters: Memory, Memorial, Mourning
November 8 - 9, 2002
Viennese Ghosts: Culture and Politics
August 2 - 3, 2002
Culture, Criticism, and the Art of Norman Rockwell
September 22, 2001
Painting Quickly, Lasting Impressions
August 4, 2001
Gender and the Art Museum
March 3, 2000
Institutionalizing the Aesthetic: Museum Practice and Museum Personalities Between the Two World Wars
September 23, 2000
Orientalism: An International Affair
July 28 - 29, 2000
1995-1999
Millet: Then and Now
July 31, 1999
The Painted Sketch
March 20, 1999
Formalism
March 13, 1999
Conserving a Legacy: Charles White and the Art Collections of Historically Black Universities
November 20, 1998
Recasting Degas's Little Dancer
August 1, 1998
Ideas and Ideology: The Art Museum from 1851 to 2001
April 23 - 25, 1998
New Perspectives on English Silver: Reconsidering the Clark Collection
November 14 - 15, 1997
Reimagining Museums for New Art
September 27, 1997
Five Uneasy Pieces: Sargent's Making of an Uncanny Spectacle
August 2, 1997
The Art and Culture of Western New England
March 8, 1997
Perspectives on Renoir
November 1 - 2, 1996
Symposium in Honor of Rafael Fernandez, Curator Emeritus of Prints and Drawings
September 9, 1995
