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Lecture/Discussion with Professor Kirstin Ringelberg
Date: March 27, 2008
Time/Location: 3:30-5:00 at Hillwood Cinema

Please join us for a lecture and discussion with Kirstin Ringelberg, Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies at the Elon University in North Carolina. Professor Ringelberg's talk, "Arranging, Collecting, and Appreciating: Woman as Object and Agent in Gilded Age Art," looks at representations of women during this period, both in American Impressionist paintings and in American literature of the time. She shows that representations of Gilded Age women should be seen in the light of strategic self-identification. Taking the novels of Henry James (The Golden Bowl in particular) and representations of women in the works of several painters, she reinterprets these representations as equally subversive in generating an image of women that seems normative but did in actuality open up a space for women to act independently, intelligently, and for their own benefit.