RAVE: May Peterson

RAVE: May Peterson

Workshop
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CWAC 152
Add to Calendar 2021-10-20 16:30:00 2021-10-20 18:00:00 RAVE: May Peterson May Peterson (Art History PhD Student) will present a paper entitled “A Matter of Life and Death: Early Medieval Experiments in Incarnation, Inhumation, and Representation.” Alice Casalini (Art History PhD Candidate) will offer a response. May Peterson works on the art and architecture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca 5th-8th centuries), especially in the Merovingian kingdoms. She is interested in the borders of Christianity and its sacred spaces, the disciplinary boundary between art history and archaeology, and in the historiographies of conversion and ethnogenesis as they play into European national identities. Alice Casalini received her BA and MA in Language and Civilisation of Asia and Mediterranean Africa from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She also studied at the department of Archaeology and Museology of Peking University, where she specialized in Buddhist archaeology of Xinjiang and took part in the excavations of Yecheng, in Hebei. Her MA thesis focused on the Buddhist caves of the Tarim Basin, with a focus on the kingdom of Kucha. Her dissertation explores notions of religious spatiality in the Buddhist architecture of Gandhāra. We will be meeting in person in CWAC 152. If you would like to join remotely, please use this Zoom link. The passcode is "cameo". Image information: Fibula, gold and garnet cloisonné enamel (7th century) with agate cameo (4th century). Charnay-lès-Chalon (Saône-et-Loire), France. Musée d'archéologie national, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, inv. 34702 This convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures. CWAC 152 Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
Fibula, gold and garnet cloisonné enamel (7th century) with agate cameo (4th century). Charnay-lès-Chalon (Saône-et-Loire), France. Musée d'archéologie national, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, inv. 34702

May Peterson (Art History PhD Student) will present a paper entitled “A Matter of Life and Death: Early Medieval Experiments in Incarnation, Inhumation, and Representation.” Alice Casalini (Art History PhD Candidate) will offer a response.

May Peterson works on the art and architecture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca 5th-8th centuries), especially in the Merovingian kingdoms. She is interested in the borders of Christianity and its sacred spaces, the disciplinary boundary between art history and archaeology, and in the historiographies of conversion and ethnogenesis as they play into European national identities.

Alice Casalini received her BA and MA in Language and Civilisation of Asia and Mediterranean Africa from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She also studied at the department of Archaeology and Museology of Peking University, where she specialized in Buddhist archaeology of Xinjiang and took part in the excavations of Yecheng, in Hebei. Her MA thesis focused on the Buddhist caves of the Tarim Basin, with a focus on the kingdom of Kucha. Her dissertation explores notions of religious spatiality in the Buddhist architecture of Gandhāra.

We will be meeting in person in CWAC 152. If you would like to join remotely, please use this Zoom link. The passcode is "cameo".

Image information: Fibula, gold and garnet cloisonné enamel (7th century) with agate cameo (4th century). Charnay-lès-Chalon (Saône-et-Loire), France. Musée d'archéologie national, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, inv. 34702

This convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.