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“America and France: New Perspectives

on Transatlantic Visual Culture”

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Symposium Program

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Abstracts

Dr. Nancy Mowll Mathews, Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator and

Lecturer Emerita Williams College; Visiting Associate Professor,

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

"French Light, American Light: Impressionism and Its Cultural Refractions"

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Dr. Emily Burns, Assistant Professor of Art History, Auburn University

“Cosmopolitan Nationals: Pragmatism and American Impressionism”

Dr. Sylvie Patry, Chief Curator, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

“Americans in le Musée: French Collecting & American Impressionism at

the Turn of the 20th Century”

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Dr. Silvio dos Santos, Associate Professor, School of Music, University of

Florida | “The American Composer & the Lure of French Music, 1870-1920”

Dr. Jon Sensbach, Professor, Department of History, University of Florida

"Impressionism and the Black Atlantic"

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Dr. Maureen Turim, Professor, Department of English, Director of Film &

Media Studies, University of Florida

“Film, Perception, Lenses, and Impressionism”

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Background on Presenters

Dr. Emily Burns | Assistant Professor of Art History, Auburn University

Dr. Nancy Mowll Mathews

Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator and Lecturer Emerita Williams College

Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

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Dr. Sylvie Patry | Chief Curator, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

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Dr. Silvio dos Santos

Associate Professor, School of Music, University of Florida

Dr. Jon Sensbach | Professor, Department of History, University of Florida

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Dr. Maureen Turim

Professor, Department of English, Director of Film & Media Studies,

University of Florida