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Join us for the “Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts” conference, happening from March 27–29 at Saint Anselm College. This 3-day event, will bring together panelists to explore the ethical dimensions of artistic creation, consumption, and identity, with a focus on how race and gender shape the arts.

Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public with registration. Both in-person and remote.

Day Two Schedule:

12:45pm—Arrive at New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Saint Anselm College for coffee and cookies

1pm—Welcome

1:10-2pm—Session 1: Black Bodies and Literature [Jesse Saywell, moderator]

“Black Bodies That Matter: The Case for Beautiful Rage” - James Garrison, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“‘A Good Negro Woman’: The Eighteenth-Century Stereotype in Literature and Art” - Bindu Malieckal, Saint Anselm College

2:00pm—Keynote Talk #2 “Pauline Viardot, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and the Ethics of Collaboration” - Hilary Poriss, Professor of Music and Chair, Music Department, Northeastern University

2:45-4:30pm—Panel “Gender, Ethics, and the Arts” [Chani Marchiselli, moderator]

     Speakers:

• Hilary Poriss (Northeastern University, Music)
• Ann Holbrook (Saint Anselm, English Literature)
• Laura Shea (Saint Anselm, Art History)
• Katie Collins (Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord)
• Tina Philibotte (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Justice Advocate & Consultant)
• Aaron Tolson (Saint Anselm, Dance)
   

4:30-4:50pm—Guerilla Girls Exhibition walk-through at Living Learning Commons (led by Laura Shea)

5-6pm—Happy Hour and Zoom with the Guerilla Girls LLC Commons
 

To learn more and to see complete conference schedule: https://www.drawingtheline2025.com/

To register: https://form.jotform.com/250514401405139
 

Sponsored by: Fine Arts Department, Center for Ethics in Society, Bean Distinguished Lecture Series, the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Fund, the Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center, and the Richard L. Bready Chair in Ethics, Economics & the Common Good.

Join us for the “Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts” conference, happening from March 27–29 at Saint Anselm College. This 3-day event, will bring together panelists to explore the ethical dimensions of artistic creation, consumption, and identity, with a focus on how race and gender shape the arts.

Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public with registration. Both in-person and remote.
 

Conference Schedule Day 3:

Saturday, March 29

8:30am— Continental breakfast and coffee

8:45-9am—Introduction, Sean Parr

9am—Keynote Talk #3, Courtney Elkin Mohler, Associate Professor of Theatre, Boston College

9:45-11am—Governments [Kate Bentz, moderator]

• “The Labor of Caring: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s and Haruka Sakaguchi’s Photographic Practices” - Corey Dzenko, Monmouth University
• “Art and ‘Traditional Values’ in Modern Russia: Subordination to Imperatives of Power as an Ethical Choice” - Elena Rovenko, Strasbourg University
• “Dominican Art During the Rafael Trujillo Dictatorship” - Natalie McCollum, Dexter Southfield School
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11:05-12:20—Music, Politics, and the Public [Sheila Liotta, moderator]

• “‘Okay, Ladies, Now Let's Get in Formation’: Identity Politics as First-Day Activities” - Anne Flaherty and Laura Moore Pruett, Merrimack College
• “Representation, Activism, and the University Orchestra” - Mark Seto, Brown University
• “Parsing the Price Revival: An Examination of Public Scholarship’s Potential for Activism in Music” - Virginia Jansen, University of California, Davis

12:30-1pm—Lunch provided

1-2pm—Two Concurrent Sessions

     (a) Contemporary Opera [Andrew Haringer, moderator]

• “New Genre Public Opera: Criticism and Aesthetics in Another City” - Kathryn Caton, University of Houston
• “What Qualifies as a Feminist Opera in the Twenty-First Century? Confronting the Reception of Svadba (2011) and Written on Skin (2012)” - Zoey Cochran, University of Montreal
   

     (b) Settler Artists and Colonialism [Jennifer Thorn, moderator]

• “White Girl Seeking Kin in Settler Colonial Context” - Jessica Jacobson-Konefall, University of Lethbridge
• “Vicious Dilapidation: Everyday Aesthetic Engagements with Abandoned Barns in Wabanakik” - Madeleine Léger, Georgetown University
   

2-3:15pm—Visual Arts

• “Sensing Affective Acoustics: Film as Engaged Scholarship with Hong Kong as a Case Study” - Winnie W. C. Lai, Dartmouth College
• “(Hu)Man Enough: The Ethics of Design Interventions for Familial Conversations About Masculine Gender Expression” - Joshua Pridemore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• “Gender and Sexuality in Diego Rivera’s Aesthetic-Politics”- Megan Flattley, University of Michigan
   

3:20-4:35 Queering Pop Culture [Ann Holbrook, moderator]

• “Ballroom and Blackbird Reparations: How Beyoncé Reclaims BIPOC History in Video and Musical Assemblage” - Christian Gregory, Saint Anselm College
• “A Contextual Queering of Chappell Roan’s ‘Pink Pony Club’” - Ash Mach, University of Rochester
• “‘Feminism Has Killed More People than the Atomic Bomb’: Reflecting on the Gender Politics of Barbenheimer” - Jonathan Lupo, Saint Anselm College
   

4:35 Coffee and Snacks

4:40-5pm—A Response, Naomi André (15-30 minutes)

5-5:15pm Concluding remarks, Laura Shea
 

To learn more and to see complete conference schedule: https://www.drawingtheline2025.com/

To register: https://form.jotform.com/250514401405139
 

Sponsored by: Fine Arts Department, Center for Ethics in Society, Bean Distinguished Lecture Series, the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Fund, the Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center, and the Richard L. Bready Chair in Ethics, Economics & the Common Good.

Join us for the “Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts” conference, happening from March 27–29 at Saint Anselm College. This 3-day event, will bring together panelists to explore the ethical dimensions of artistic creation, consumption, and identity, with a focus on how race and gender shape the arts.

Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public with registration. Both in-person and remote.

Day One of Conference
THURSDAY, March 27 - 4:30pm

Keynote Talk #1 “Modeling Ethics and Care: The Potential of Operatic Spaces Today” Naomi André, David G. Frey Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Location: Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College
 

To learn more and to see complete conference schedule: https://www.drawingtheline2025.com/

To register for the March 27^th event, please email Tara Nichols directly at tnichols@anselm.edu.
 

Sponsored by: Fine Arts Department, Center for Ethics in Society, Bean Distinguished Lecture Series, the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Fund, the Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center, and the Richard L. Bready Chair in Ethics, Economics & the Common Good.

Join the New Hampshire Institute of Politics for a conversation with Heather Cox Richardson, author of "Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America." In this discussion, moderated by Peter B. Josephson, professor of politics at Saint Anselm College, Richardson will delve into the themes of her recent best-selling book.

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About the speaker: Heather Cox Richardson is professor of history at Boston College. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration.

"Democracy Awakening" has garnered widespread acclaim, with Jane Mayer calling it "a vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging, and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals." Richardson’s work has appeared in major outlets, including the Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Her nightly newsletter, Letters from an American, reaches over four million readers.

About the moderator: Peter B. Josephson is a professor of politics at Saint Anselm College, specializing in political theory and philosophy. He has published articles and book chapters on politics and popular culture, the political philosophy of Henry Kissinger, the roots of modern political economy, religion and liberal politics, and the political practices of classical liberalism. His books include works on John Locke and, with co-author R. Ward Holder, on the presidency of Barack Obama and the political theology of Reinhold Niebuhr.

Books may be purchased in advance at your local bookseller or online.

Free and open to the public. Seating is limited, and registration is required. You will receive an email confirming your attendance.