Event Archives
30 May, 2006
Richard Meyer, Associate Professor of Art History, USC
Author of: Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art and Representing the Passions: Histories, Bodies, Vision.
4:30 PM
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 157
23 May, 2006
Kristina Kiaer, Associate Professor of Art History, Northwestern University
"Modern Soviet Art Meets America, 1935"
4:30 pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center 157
11 May, 2006
Rachel DeLue, of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, will give a talk:
"Diagnosing Pictures: The Science of Looking in America circa 1900."
She will also be speaking at the Art Institute of Chicago on December 8, 2005.
6 May, 2006
Graduate Student Symposium
1 May, 2006
Laura Engelstein, Henry S. McNeil Professor of History, Yale University
"Between Art and Icon: Alexander Ivanov's Appearance of Christ to the People"
4:30 pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 157
8 April, 2006
Laura Engelstein presents:
"Between Art and Icon: Alexander Ivanov's Appearance of Christ to the People"
4:30 pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 157
Henry S. McNeil Professor of History at Yale University
29 March, 20006
Verity Platt presents:
"Dying to See: Epiphanic Sarcophagi from Imperial Rome"
4:30 pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 157
13 March, 2006
Shih-Shan Susan Huang presents:
"Divination Prints in Chinese Temples:
Praying for Success in the Year of 1200."
4:30 pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 153
9 March, 2006
Ping Foong presents:
"Monumental and Intimate: Public and Private Dimensions of Landscape by Guo Xi in the Late 11th Century"
4:30 pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 157
6 March, 20006
Wei-Cheng Lin presents:
"Underground Wooden Archictecture in Brick: the Changing Perspective between Life and Death in Song-Liao-Jin Tombs
4:30 pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 157
27 February, 20006
Jelena Trkulja presents:
"Unveiling the Veiled: Symbolism of Church Facades in Byzantine Architecture."
4:30 pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 157
16 February, 2006
Alicia Walker, Mellon Fellow, Columbia University:
"Meaning Recuperated: A Holistic Approach to Middle Byzantine Exoticizing Objects."
4:30 pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 157
2005
18 November, 2005
Verity Platt presents:
Making an Impression: Replication and the Ontology of the Ancient Seal-Stone
4:30 pm
Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 157
Verity Platt received her Ph.D. from Oxford University. Her dissertation was entitled Epiphany in the Art and Literature of the Ancient World. She currently holds the position of Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter.
8 November, 2005
The Art Institute of Chicago, the Newberry Library, and the Art History Departments of:
University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and University of Illinois at Chicago present:
Ernst van de Wetering
Director, Rembrandt Research Project, Amsterdam
Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam
The Rembrandt Research Project
a Lecture and Discussion followed by refreshments
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Fullerton Hall, the Art Institute of Chicago
21 May, 2005
The Department of Art History presents a conference organized by Elina Gertsman:
Performance/Performativity in the Middle Ages
Co-sponsored by the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Art History and Romance Languages and Literatures departments, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German literature and Culture, and the Divinity School.
The aim of the conference is to explore various manifestations of performance and meanings of performativity in the Middle Ages. Interdisciplinary in focus, it is intended to bring together scholars of drama, art history, literature, languages, theology and history. One purpose of this conference is to attempt to define medieval "performance" as something of a nexus, a point of contact among disciplines. A number of distinguished speakers will join us:
Pamela Sheingorn (Program in Theater, Graduate Center, City University of New York) will present a paper entitled "Performing the Illustrated Manuscript: Great Reckonings in Little Books."
Mary Suydam (Religious Studies, Kenyon College) will speak on "Women's Texts and Performances: Constructing Sacred Spaces and Models of Holiness in the Medieval Southern Low Countries."
Jody Enders (French and Italian, University of California, Santa Barbara) will present a paper entitled "Medieval Theater on Trial: Performance, Performativity, and the Death Penalty."
Erika Fischer-Lichte (Institute for Theater Studies, Free University of Berlin) will present "The Mystery Plays - Ritual or Theatre? - Attempt to end a discussion."
The University of Chicago faculty – Rebecca Zorach, David Levin, Daisy Delogu and Amy Hollywood – will serve as respondents for the papers.
"Medieval pictures cannot be separated from what is a total experience of communication involving sight, sound, action and physical expression."
- Michael Camille
10 February, 2005
Nancy Um presents:
The Structures of Trade: Indian Ocean Commerce and the Built Environment of the Yemeni Mocha Network
Nancy Um received her PhD in 2001 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation was entitled, A Red Sea Society in Yemen: Architecture, Urban Form and Cultural Dynamics in the eighteenth-century port city of al-Mukha.
8 February, 2005
Rebecca Müller presents:
Staging Saints in Fifteenth Century Venice - The Vivarini Altarpieces at San Zaccaria
Rebecca Müller received her Ph.D. in 1999 from the Philipps-Universität Marburg. Her dissertation was entitled, Untersuchungen zur Spolienverwendung im mittelalterlichen Genua. She currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck Institut in Florence.
2 February, 2005
Francisco Prado-Vilar presents:
Romanesque Art: The Future of an Illusion
Francisco Prado-Vilar received his Ph.D at Harvard University in 2002. His dissertation was entitled: In the Shadow of the Gothic Idol: The Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Imagery of Love and Conversion.He currently teaches at Princeton University.
27 January, 2005
Persis Berlekamp presents:
The Sannaja and the Sun Disc: Envisioning Wonders in 13th-14 Century Iraq
Persis Berlekamp received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003. Her dissertation was entitled Wonders and their Imges in Medieval Islamic Culture: the Wonders of Creation in Fars and Iraq, 1280-1388. She currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Texas in Austin.
25 January, 2005
Joan Holladay presents:
Genealogical Imagery and the "Image" of Rome: Decorative Programs in Medieval Palace Halls
Joan Holladay received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1982. She is currently a Professor of Art History at the University of Texas in Austin.