Wednesday, September 11 AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Keynote Lecture 6:00–7:30 pm Andrés Navia Director AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Welcome Abigail McEwen Assistant Professor Department of Art History and Archaeology University of Maryland Introduction Michael Wellen Assistant Curator of Latin American and Latino Art Museum of Fine Arts, Houston On Dark Matter Dinner (for participants) 8:00 pm Boqueria 1837 M Street NW Washington, D.C. 20036   Thursday, September 12 AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Morning Session 10:00 am–12:30 pm Abigail McEwen, moderator University of Maryland Andrés Navia, Abigail McEwen, and Adriana Ospina Constellations at AMA Elena Jackson Albarrán [Miami University of Ohio] Volcanoes, Piñatas, and the Revolutionary Nationalist Aesthetic: Mexican Child Artists as Inter-American Cultural Diplomats, 1930s Beth Matusoff Merfish [University of Colorado, Denver] “The metal shavings that fell from his plates:” José Guadalupe Posada as Regional and (A)political Context for Leopoldo Méndez’s 1945 Art Institute Exhibition Luis M. Castañeda [Syracuse University] Curves of Subversion: Tropicality at War at the 1939 New York World’s Fair Olga Herrera [George Mason University] Of Art and Intellectual Cooperation: The Pan American Union 1936-1948 Lunch 12:45-1:45 pm Loggia Afternoon Session 2:00–4:00 pm Adriana Opspina, moderator AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Caroline D. Shields [University of Maryland] José Luis Cuevas and the Art of Performance Alessandro Armato [IDAES-UNSAM] “Monstruos desde el sur:” La construcción de la Neo-figuración como tendencia artística en Latinoamérica (1954-1965) Alexandra Mesa Mendieta [Universidad Autónoma de Madrid] José Gómez Sicre, Alejandro Obregón y Marta Traba: Coleccionismo público de arte moderno en Colombia (1948-1965) Laura Demaría [University of Maryland] Painting Beyond the Center/Periphery Axis: A Critical Approach to the Project Argentina pinta bien 4:15–5:00 pm All symposium participants are invited to a reception in the Loggia.