Department of Art History

How to narrate an interconnected Mesoamerican world

Please join us for the third session of Chat About, this Friday, April 2nd from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Topics may include: Southern U.S. Visual Culture, Japanese Conceptual Art, Temporality, Sci-Fi, Desire, Dematerialization, Large & Small, and Faces that may not be real.

Presenters: Wilson Yerxa (MFA), Alan Longino (Ph.D.), Sara Grose (MFA), Toby Wu (MAPH), Miles MacClure (MFA), Livy Snyder (MAPH)

"Korean Paper, a Trendy Item in Late Ming Literati Circle"

Speaker: Sooa Im McCormick (Curator of Korean Art, Cleveland Museum)

Discussant: Yoon-Jee Choi (PhD student, Department of Art History)

Please join us for the second part of our Qualifying Paper Symposium, co-sponsored by the RAVE and VMPEA workshops.

During this part of the event, the following second-year Ph.D. students in the art history department will present their QPs:

4:45 - 5:15 PM: Lucien Sun, "A Print in Flux: Rethinking the Print of Guan Yu from Khara-Khoto"

Please join us for the first part of our Qualifying Paper Symposium, co-sponsored by VMPEA and RAVE. During this two-part event, the second-year PhD students in the art history department will present their QPs.

4:45-5:15: Jenny Harris, “Worlds of Wire: Ruth Asawa’s Sculpture”

5:15-5:45: Li Jiang, “Replicating Death: The Gold Funerary Mask of Princess of the State of Chen (1018)”

Revisiting the Jesuit Gardens in Eighteenth-Century Beijing

Speaker: Wang Lianming (Assistant Professor of Chinese Art History, Heidelberg University)

Discussant: Yin Wu (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Art History)

"Anarchitectonic Pagoda Images from Late-medieval Dunhuang"

Speaker: Zhenru Zhou (Ph.D. candidate, Art History)

Discussant: Dr. Katherine Tsiang (Associate Director, Center for the Art of East Asia)

Faraway, so close: North Korea in Contemporary Visual Culture

Speaker: Boyoung Chang (Postdoctoral Fellow East Asian Art, Department of Art History

Discussant: Saena Ryu Dozier (Recent graduate; PhD in Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Make the most of your research PDFs through OCR text recognition. We’ll look at a variety of software & platforms for editing and organizing your PDFs, including Acrobat, Zotero, Box, Evernote, and more. We’ll also discuss platforms for visual brainstorming and collating information and images, such as Miro and OneNote.

Click here to register for the workshop.

Join the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art for a conversation marking the opening of Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe.