Tickets in advance: $45.00 (Includes Box Lunch).
Tickets at the door: $45.00, lunch not included.
Students with ID: $20.00 including lunch.
Free for students without lunch included.
If lunch is required, tickets must be purchased no later than April 24. Tickets available through MetroTix at 314.534.1111 or online. Tickets on sale beginning February 4.
Symposium Speakers:
9:00 – 9:45: Tyler Stovall, Professor, History and Program Chair, France-Berkeley Fund, Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkley. Topic: Josephine Baker and the World of Black Montmartre.
10:00 – 10:45: Terri Francis, Assistant Professor of Film Studies and African American Studies, Yale University.Topic: Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity.
11:00 – 11:45: Griselda Pollock, Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art in the Department of Fine Art, University of Leeds, England. Topic: Authoring a Self between Invisibility and Excessive Visibility: Subjectivity, Embodiment and Performance.
1:15 – 2:00: Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Professor of Sociology, University of California at San Diego and Director of the African & African-American Studies Research Project. Topic: Hues of the Rainbow in a Global Village.
2:15 – 3:00: Simon Njami, Paris-based art critic, curator, publisher, scholar, novelist and founding member and Chief Editor of Revue Noire. Topic: Two loves: Pioneering the Question of Identity in France.
3:15 – 4:00: Speaker's Panel, moderated by Jonathan Smith, Ph.D., St. Louis University, Department of American Studies.
The exhibition, publication and related education and outreach programs for
Josephine Baker: Image and Icon have been generously underwritten by Mary Strauss.
The Sheldon Art Galleries present Josephine Baker: Image and Icon in partnership with
generous support from The Boeing Company; The City of St.Louis;
the National Endowment for the Arts; Patrick Davis Partners; Paradowski
Creative; the Missouri Humanities Council with support from the National Endowment for the
Humanities; Joan and Mitchell Markow; and Eleanor J. Moore.
Additional support for the symposium has been provided by
the Des Lee Professorship in Art Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis; the
Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University; the Department of Art History and
Archaeology, Washington University; and the Center for the Humanities at the University of
Missouri-St. Louis.
Special Hotel Packages are available from the Chase Park Plaza, St. Louis. Call 314.633.3000,
or toll-free 877-587-2427 for more information or to reserve your room. Ask for the special Sheldon
Concert Hall or Sheldon Rate.
