RAVE: Seth Estrin

Workshop

8 December 2021 4.30pm - 8 December 2021 6.00pm

CWAC 152

Add to Calendar 2021-12-08 16:30:00 2021-12-08 18:00:00 RAVE: Seth Estrin Seth Estrin (Assistant Professor of Art History and the College) will present a paper entitled "The Figure of the Slave on Classical Attic Funerary Monuments." Roko Rumora (PhD Candidate, Art History) will offer a response. Seth Estrin (Assistant Professor, Art History and the College) specializes in the art, archaeology, and visual culture of ancient Greece, with a focus on sculpture of the Archaic and Classical periods. His scholarship and teaching explore the lived experience of ancient art – its sensuous and affective properties, its entanglement in subjective experiences such as memory and emotion, and its place in intimate encounters and personal histories. Estrin received his BA in Classics and Art History from the University of Toronto, his MSt in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford, and his MA and PhD, also in Classical Archaeology, from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2020-21, he was the J. Clawson Mills fellow in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has previously held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. and from the Social Science Research Council. Roko Rumora is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the evolution of sculptural aesthetics in the Roman Empire, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between the arrangement of statues in space and their aesthetic appreciation. His dissertation is centered on collections of statuary displayed on monumental façades decorating civic buildings in Roman Asia Minor. Approaching the placement of statues into their architectural framework as a series of performative acts, the project explores how later curatorial interventions into such ensembles – including additions, rearrangements, or repairs – became aestheticized in Late Antiquity. Roko completed his BA in Art History at Columbia University and was a visiting scholar in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Oxford. Most recently, Roko was a graduate curatorial intern at the Department for Ancient and Byzantine Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. If you would like to attend remotely, please register for the Zoom meeting here. We would also like to encourage those interested in presenting at RAVE in future quarters to fill out this presenter application form. We welcome applications for both winter and spring on a rolling basis. 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

Seth Estrin (Assistant Professor of Art History and the College) will present a paper entitled "The Figure of the Slave on Classical Attic Funerary Monuments."

Roko Rumora (PhD Candidate, Art History) will offer a response.

Seth Estrin (Assistant Professor, Art History and the College) specializes in the art, archaeology, and visual culture of ancient Greece, with a focus on sculpture of the Archaic and Classical periods. His scholarship and teaching explore the lived experience of ancient art – its sensuous and affective properties, its entanglement in subjective experiences such as memory and emotion, and its place in intimate encounters and personal histories. Estrin received his BA in Classics and Art History from the University of Toronto, his MSt in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford, and his MA and PhD, also in Classical Archaeology, from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2020-21, he was the J. Clawson Mills fellow in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has previously held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. and from the Social Science Research Council.

Roko Rumora is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the evolution of sculptural aesthetics in the Roman Empire, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between the arrangement of statues in space and their aesthetic appreciation. His dissertation is centered on collections of statuary displayed on monumental façades decorating civic buildings in Roman Asia Minor. Approaching the placement of statues into their architectural framework as a series of performative acts, the project explores how later curatorial interventions into such ensembles – including additions, rearrangements, or repairs – became aestheticized in Late Antiquity. Roko completed his BA in Art History at Columbia University and was a visiting scholar in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Oxford. Most recently, Roko was a graduate curatorial intern at the Department for Ancient and Byzantine Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

If you would like to attend remotely, please register for the Zoom meeting here.

We would also like to encourage those interested in presenting at RAVE in future quarters to fill out this presenter application form. We welcome applications for both winter and spring on a rolling basis.

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.