Keynote: Professor Patricia Simons, Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
‘Susanna and the Elders’ is commonly read as a case of male voyeurism, in subject and purpose, or as mere moralizing allegory. This paper moves away from each reductive extreme by re-examining the story’s history and visual effect.
Patricia Simons works on the art of Renaissance Europe (primarily Italy, France and the Netherlands) with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality and on interdisciplinary approaches to materiality, visuality and material culture. In groundbreaking publications in both books and major journals, she has investigated such issues as portraiture as a mode of fictive representation, medical discourse in relation to visual culture, and the representation and reception of homoeroticism.
Wednesday 9 March 2016
5:30pm – 6:45pm
Theatre 1
Alan Gilbert Building-G21
The University of Melbourne
PARKVILLE VIC 3010
Admission is free.
Bookings are required.
Seating is limited.
Registrations from 24 February.
To register visit: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/susanna
For further information please contact: anne.dunlop@unimelb.edu.au