“Legacies of Internationalism”: Conference Report and Roundtable

Chelsea Haines is a PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation, “Staging the Modern, Building the Nation: Exhibiting Israeli Art, 1939–1965,” explores the role of art exhibitions in Israeli nation-building from the founding of the state to the establishment of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. She is a former editor of Guernica and The Exhibitionist and recently coedited Entry Points: The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice (Duke University Press, 2015).

Gemma Sharpe is a Humanities Fellow and PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on modern art in South Asia, particularly Pakistan, and relationships between internationalism, nation building, and artistic media, particularly on paper.