RAVE: Sizhao Yi
“A Material Metaphor: Reading Crackle-Glazed Porcelain in Chen Hongshou’s Paintings”
Sizhao Yi, PhD Student, Art History
Respondent: Meng Zhao, PhD Candidate, Art History
Mia Khimm joins The Joyce Foundation as Culture Program Director
Department alumna Mia Khimm (MA’09) has been appointed as the new Culture Program Director of The Joyce Foundation, a nonpartisan private foundation that invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region.
RAVE: Luiza Osorio G. da Silva
“‘That he may behold’: Constructing Presence through Sight in Ancient Egyptian Art”
Luiza Osorio G. da Silva, PhD Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Respondent: Roko Rumora, PhD Student, Art History
VMPEA: Or Porath
"Japan's Forgotten God: Jūzenji in Literature and the Visual Arts"
Speaker: Or Porath (Post-Doctoral Researcher Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Discussant: Ian Cipperly (PhD student, Department of History)
VMPEA: Alan Longino
“Yutaka Matsuzawa and Looking Around Quantum Art”
Alan Longino (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Discussant: Orianna Cacchione (Curator of Global Contemporary Art, Smart Museum)
Special Workshop by Visiting Scholar Prof. Dong Rui
Nostalgia for Inner Asia: Form and Idea in the Portrait of the Filial Grandson Yuan Gu on Stone Funerary Couch from the Eastern Wei Dynasty (548 CE)
内亚的留恋：安阳东魏围屏石棺床孝孙原榖画像的形式与理念
Dong Rui. PhD., Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History, University of Chicago; Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts, Henan University
Discussant: Lin Wei-Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Local Produce: Olivia Sturman
Please join us for the next virtual installment of Local Produce, presented by the Hack Arts Lab at the University of Chicago. This talk will feature Olivia Sturman (AB ’20), in a conversation with HAL staff member Sophia Van Iderstine. Olivia will be discussing her role on the Jenny Holzer public art project You Be My Ally, currently installed and on view at various sites throughout the UChicago Hyde Park campus and on roving LED trucks.
RAVE: Carly Boxer
“Repetition: Practice and Perception as Late Medieval Approaches to Health”
UChicago’s Core: Cultivating a Cornerstone Curriculum
The focus of this discussion will be UChicago’s Core Curriculum: it’s current state, its relevance in higher education and at UChicago today. It will also address different Core sequences, what it means to teach a canon and rethink it, how the Core has evolved, and how in the choices related to the Core come about. Finally, what does YOU BE MY ALLY say and ask of the Core?
VMPEA: Dorothy C. Wong
“Colossal Buddha Statues in China, Past and Present”
Dorothy C. Wong (Professor, Mcintire Department of Art, University of Virginia)
Discussant: Jiayi Zhu (PhD student, EALC, University of Chicago)