Not Now: Modernism, Nativism, and Fascism in American Art and Culture

Thursday, November 2, 2023 |3:00-5:00 PM | Devlin 413 | Please for the student workshop

Not Now: Modernism, Nativism, and Fascism in American Art and Culture

Philip Guston, Monument, 1976

Not Now examines the relationship between nativism, fascism, and modernism in American art and the writing of its histories. Grounded in the work of Black artists and writers of the 1930s, it takes seriously the implication that fascism is “native” to America. We aim to convene a program that contends with fascist tendencies in the racial regimes and historical traumas of a settler colony and the visual culture that buttressed it. With the current resurgence of fascism in mind, we ask: Has American fascist visual culture sought to institute its own form of temporality via concepts of origin, destiny, and nativity? How can art historians situate neo-fascism now within fascism’s origins then? And finally, what new forms of interdisciplinary analysis are needed to make sense of fascism’s entanglements with American cultural history?

The Boston College workshops is the first leg of a three-part, yearlong program. A second set of workshops will take place in February at UCL, and the program will culminate in an international symposium at UCL in June 2024.

All interested students from any department or discipline are welcome to join. If attending, please read the following short text in advance of our discussion:Alberto Toscano, " (2017).

Pizza and refreshments will be available for participants

Supported by The Institute for the Liberal Arts, Boston College and the Terra Foundation for American Art

Special thanks tothe Art, Art History, and Film Department and the McMullen Museum

Schedule and Registration

Thursday, November 2, 2023|Devlin 413 | Pleasefor the student workshop

3:00-5:00 PM

Student Workshop

Convened by: Larne Abse Gogarty, Kevin Lotery, and Stephanie Schwartz

Please read the following short text in advance of our discussion:Alberto Toscano, (2017).

Friday, November 3, 2023|McMullen Museum, Room 104 | Invitation Only, Not Open to the Public

9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Faculty Workshop

Convenors:

Larne Abse Gogarty, Associate Professor and Head of History and Theory of Art, Slade School of Fine Art

Kevin Lotery, Assistant Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art, Boston College

Stephanie Schwartz, Associate Professor of American Art, University College London

Speakers:

E.C. Feiss,Assistant Professor of Art History, Providence College

Ciarán Finlayson, writer and editor, New York

Michael Glass,Assistant Professor of History, Boston College

Claire Grace,Associate Professor of Art History, Wesleyan University

Jason Hill,Associate Professor of Art History,University of Delaware

Jennifer Nelson, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Delaware/Hilles Bush Fellow, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard

Renée Pastel,Assistant Professor of Communication, Boston College

ZoéSamudzi,Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor of Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention, Clark University

Christopher Vials, Professor of English, University of Connecticut

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Boston College strongly encourages conference participants to receive the COVID-19 vaccination before attending events on campus.