UA’s art historians hosted the 
Harless presented his thesis research in the form of a paper titled “The Donna Regina Passion Frescoes: A Portrayal of the Interior Altars of Invisible Women.” Williamson, from UAB, presented “‘The Ladies’ Who Founded MoMA: How Three Female Art Collectors Created One of the World’s Leading Museums.”
Each year, the joint art history faculty choose a keynote speaker for the culminating presentation of the symposium. This speaker also participates with UA and UAB faculty in discussions at the end of each student presentation. Dr. Barbara Mooney, associate professor of American art and architecture at the University of Iowa and a leading scholar in 
race and architecture, as well as a distinguished teacher, presented “From Jumping Jack to Jump Jim Crow: The Origins of a Pernicious Southern Stereotype?” on the origins and evolution of racist imagery. Mooney is the author of Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite (University of Virginia Press, 2008). She presented her ongoing research in an open manner that invited audience ideas on her work as well as giving students insight into her research process.
More info about our symposium here: https://art.ua.edu/academics/graduate-programs/graduate-symposium/.
