Art History graduate students Lauren Lovings-Gomez and James McCabe participated in the 2024 RASC/a graduate student conference, “Crosscurrents: Visualizing the Arts of the Atlantic World,” hosted by Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas last week.
Lauren presented her paper, “Josiah Wedgwood’s Abolitionist Brooch: “Am I not still confined?” while James presented “Passing Through Parisian Interiors: Encounters with Jeanne Duval, Laure, Berthe Morisot, and Julie Manet-Rouart in the Metropole,” which received second place for the Custard Institute Paper Prize for outstanding paper and conference presentation.
The theme of the graduate student conference aimed to “explore how people of vastly different geographic regions made physical contact and participated in shaping a global visual cultures" with a focus on Black and Indigenous transcultural intervention and resistance to European regimes of vision and representation.
Lauren is a fourth-year PhD student with research interests in British, French, and American art during the long nineteenth-century with a focus on Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, the Arts & Crafts Movement, women artists, gender representation, and material culture. James' current research focuses on gender, colonialism, and nationalism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-
