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forwarded on behalf of Kristina Wilson [Apologies for cross-listings] You are invited to attend a symposium, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, entitled "American Modernist Design, 1920-1940: New Perspectives." The keynote lecture will be held on Friday evening, October 29, and the symposium will take place all day Saturday, October 30, 2004. The event, which features leading modernist scholars and design historians, is offered in conjunction with the exhibition "Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression," on view at the Yale Art Gallery from October 5, 2004, through June 5, 2005. The Friday lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is required for the Saturday symposium, for which there is a nonrefundable fee of $25 per person, $10 for members of the Yale Art Museums (the fee includes a boxed lunch). Free for students with a valid ID. For more information on the symposium, as well as a pdf registration form available for downloading, please see the following websites: The Yale Art Gallery homepage: http://artgallery.yale.edu The symposium homepage: http://www.yale.edu/yuag/symposium.html The speakers are as follows: Friday, October 29 at 5:30 pm Neil Harris, Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History, University of Chicago. Saturday, October 30 10:00 am Kristina Wilson, Assistant Professor of Art History, Clark University, and curator of the Livable Modernism exhibition. Christopher Long, Associate Professor, Architectural History and Theory, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin Marilyn Friedman, Design Historian Phyllis Ross, Design Historian Thomas Andrew Denenberg, Betsy Babcock Curator, Reynolda House Museum of American Art Ashley Callahan, Curator, Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, Georgia Museum of Art Carma R. Gorman, Associate Professor of Art History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Sandy Isenstadt, Assistant Professor, History of Art, Yale University