Description: This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out as part of International Open Access Week at the University of North Texas (UNT). This panel discusses student research and open access. Dr. Susan Eve, associate dean of the Honors College and professor of Sociology and Applied Gerontology serves as the moderator of this panel. Faculty presenters are accompanied by their students to discuss the benefits of open access and including your work in the UNT Scholarly Works institutional repository. Dr. John Ishiyama with the department of Political Science and student Angela Manglaris from the department of Political Science, Dr. Lee Hughes from the department of Biological Sciences and student Amy Schade of the Biological Sciences department and Honors College, Dr. Jeanne Tunks from the Teacher Education and Administration department and student Sara Montejano from the Teacher Education and Administration department, Dr. Jennifer Way from the Art Education and Art History department and student Briana Camp from the Art Education and Art History department are the panelists.

Description: This presentation discusses research on Francisco de Goya and his artistically recorded evolving definitions of madness that preoccupied the eighteenth-century.

Description: This paper discusses research on the use of photography in colonial India. The thesis of the paper is that British photographers, through their choice of subjects and editing of their works, created a romanticized image of India as the British wished to see it. More recent photography has focused on the reality of the lives of the Indian people. Thus photography has moved from functioning as an agent of colonial domination and political propaganda to a tool used to bring aid and compassion to those in need.

Description: This paper discusses research on the performance art of Alexander Brener. The author states that we should expand our understanding of contemporary art by considering it from ideological perspectives other than those of the West. The author will show the significance that certain established conventions of Western art criticism and history have for the Russian performance artist Alexander Brener. Western art critics perceive Brener's performances as destructive and perverse, which indicates the existence of accepted conventions and a tacit agreement concerning what is considered art. Art history also excludes Brener, not only because his work is so contemporary, but also because prevailing approaches to understanding art in the West require categorizing art movements and corresponding labeling of artists, which is difficult to achieve in Brener's case. Consequently, the author asks, how was Brener emphasized the importance of understanding art as an entity that has culturally specific features? The author considers Brener's use of the phrase "third world artist" in relation to the prevailing Western art critical terms "East" and "West." Finally, the author examines Brener's controversial performance at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in relation to the Western art world as a system consisting of artists, critics, historians, and patrons.

Description: This paper presents research on Francisco de Goya. Abstract: This research proves that the painting of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) from 1800 ('The Cannibals), and his paintings from 1820-1823 (The Black Paintings, 'Judith,' and 'Saturn,' and Miniature, 'Judith') represent changing ideas on decapitation of a monarch. First, one must look at representations of decapitations before the turn of the 19th century with focus on the French Revolution and Louis XVI. Then one needs to compare the early depictions with those twenty years later under the rule of Fernando VII in Spain when decapitation is represented in a new light through the works of Goya. The research strategy employs semiotics to determine the change in the representation of decapitation in relation to the King and his rule.