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MMA 1998.213 Dish with Recumbent Elephant Surrounded by Clouds (Vietnam), detail

2025 Symposium Videos Link!

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2025 Symposium Videos Link!

All 44 sessions including the Keynote and Graduate School Panel have been edited and are available in a Playlist  on YouTube!

https://tinyurl.com/2025SymposiumVideos

A big thank you from Professor Heuer and me to our Alumnx hosts who not only did a great job, but also provided information that helped us isolate flubs during the sessions that needed to be edited out. Thank you all for your diligence!

I also owe a big debt of thanks to SUNY New Paltz Art History student, Michael Grundy. Michael not only was a generous and thoughtful moderator, he also offered his expertise with Adobe Premiere to edit a number of the session videos. He also created a template to standardize the video dimensions and shared tips and tricks that really sped up the editing process for me!

Please direct any corrections to me, Susan Smutny, at demaios@newpaltz.edu. We have done our utmost to remove delays and evidence of technical difficulties that occurred during the sessions. We hope you enjoy the results, and will share the link with your friends, families, and professors.

— Susan DeMaio Smutny, Visual Resources Librarian

Presentation Tip for Mac Users

Mac Users Quick Tip!

Instructions to Set Up Your MacBook for Zoom Sessions

We want to make participating in the Symposium as simple as possible.

Student-Scholars who use Macbooks may need to change their settings if they have never shared content on a Zoom call before. Mac Users usually must change settings on their computers in order share their screen when they are presenting during their session. This may require you to leave the Zoom session and log back in. It isn’t a big deal, but be prepared if you use a Mac.

To make sure you are all set, refer to the instructions on Zoom support at the following URL: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0064868. This way you’ll be ready to go when it is your turn to give your paper!

Archaeologists Give Keynote About Incredible Discovery at Pylos, Greece

2025 Symposium Keynote Address: Lord of the Gold Rings: The Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos Greece, Saturday, April 5th, at 1:00 PM EDT via Zoom
Keynote: Zoom Registration

“This previously unopened shaft grave of a wealthy Mycenaean warrior, dating back 3,500 years, is one of the most magnificent displays of prehistoric wealth discovered in mainland Greece in the past 65 years.”

Be sure to attend our 2025 Keynote Address!

Dr. Sharon Stocker and Dr. Jack L. Davis of the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati will be our special guests this year. They led the team that in 2015 uncovered a spectacular Mycenaean Bronze Age tomb at Pylos, Greece, which will undoubtedly be considered one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the 21st century. In their presentation, “Lord of the Gold Rings” on Saturday, April 5th at 1 PM EDT, they will share the incredible objects they excavated from what is now known as the Griffin Warrior Tomb. Register Now!

Student-Scholar Index

Giovannino de' Grassi, Model Book 1390s Manuscript (Ms. VII. 14), 260 x 185 mm Biblioteca Civica, Bergamo

We have a new page to help you find links from Student-Scholar names to the Session in which they are presenting, so you can click the Zoom link to  Register!! Click a letter for a table of students and their presentation number. If you tap the name, a new tab will open to the Session header with the Zoom Link.

We’ve added the Student-Scholar Index to the Main Menu!

Symposium on Instagram!

Professor Heuer & the AHA E-board!

PLEASE GET THE WORD OUT! Our Insta at @sunynp_arthistorysymposium is live, and the Symposium Team is excited to share your research and achievements! We started this Insta to build a community for the art history student-scholars presenting this year—plus their faculty mentors, families, classmates, and friends.

So LIKE, SHARE WIDELY, and FOLLOW US! For student-scholars or anyone promoting a student’s participation please TAG us or better yet, select *COLLABORATE* when you post, and we’ll add it to our feed!

Keep checking back because we’ll share more Symposium info in the coming two weeks:

✨Registration pro-tips

✨Keynote Address by renowned archaeologists working in Pylos, Greece, Dr. Sharon Stocker and Dr. Jack L. Davis of the University of Cincinnati

✨Special panel discussion, “Finding and Successfully Applying To The Right Graduate Program For You.”

✨Our impressive stats and more!

 

Kudos to graphic design BFA candidate, Kristen Sauer, who has designed our Insta Profile Picture and this great first-post image. Kristen is working with us on lots of other designs for the Symposium as part of her New Paltz Design Lab practicum, supervised by Prof. Amy Papaelias, Associate Professor, Design Department. Thanks to both Kristen and Professor Papaelias!

Registration Is Open

Our Schedule is a Behemoth!

Thanks for your patience! Registration is Open for all 44 Sessions of the 2025 Symposium!

All Sessions were entered as originally received. That is why there is a delay in updating any typos or changes of which we already have been notified.

Changes up to now (Noon on Wed) will be reflected in the schedule by Noon, Thursday, March 13. Future corrections will be made as quickly as we can.

This schedule is over twice the number of people who participated last year, which was twice the number from the year before! We’re not joking when we call the Symposium a Behemoth! And thanks to Mr. Blake for the image.

Please continue to direct your corrections to Professor Heuer at heuerk@newpaltz.edu. Website issues, please email me, Susan Smutny, at demaios@newpaltz.edu.

New! Graduate School Session

Save the Date! For the first time, we will hold a virtual panel discussion about graduate school for the world-wide art history undergraduate community! Join us for the Graduate School Session on Sunday, April 6, from 1:00-3:00 PM. Serving as panelists who will share their insights with students (and their families) will be Faculty and Administrators from graduate programs in the US, Canada, and the UK. Professor Heuer will host.

Plus we are building a page of Art History and Related Graduate Programs that you can check out at https://hawksites.newpaltz.edu/2025arthistorystudentsymposium/graduate-programs.

You’ll be able to register for the Graduate School Session, likely at the beginning of March, so be sure to check the Symposium Schedule when it is released.

To leave a comment, or to view longer posts, click on the post heading up above!

Our Site Has A Different Look…

German Renaissance painting of a girl in a yellow dress making a flower garland as her white cat looks on.

This year we worked to make the website for the Symposium a little easier to use with new menus that remain visible even on a small device.

Plus we are really happy with our blue/gold/yellow colorway this year!

Here is shown a detail from the reverse of a German panel painting c. 1508 by the artist, Hans Süss von Kulmbach, depicting a girl making a garland. It is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 17.190.21. If you check it out, please note that Albrecht Dürer’s monogram to the right of the girl is in authentic!

Leave a comment if you like the new design or if you have a suggestion!

Hello Art Historians!

Welcome to the 2025 Symposium Blog Page for News, Helpful Hints, & More!

Check back here for more information about the upcoming Undergraduate Art History Symposium happening Thursday, April 3, through Sunday, April 6, 2025!

To leave a comment, or to view longer posts, click on the post heading up above!