Department of Art History

"We've Seen It All"

Leslie Wilson, Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts, Smart Museum

“Regionality: A Resistant Issue and Keyword in Modern Chinese Architecture”

Delin Lai, PhD, Professor and Head of Art History Program, Department of Fine Art, the University of Louisville

Respondent: Zhiyan Yang, PhD Candidate, Art History Department

Cultural Event: Spring Festival Dumpling Party

Time: TBD

“Ink on Screen, or What Animation Calls Thinking”

Panpan Yang, PhD candidate, Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Respondent: W.J.T. Mitchell, PhD, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, English and Art History

"Maria Lassnig: Experiments with the Body and the Camera"

Stefanie Proksch-Weilguni, PhD Candidate, eikones - Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel; Visiting Student, University of Chicago

Respondent: TBD

Snacks and beverages will be served.

SPECIAL EVENT

Lori Waxman, critic for the Chicago Tribune and Senior Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

in conversation with: Rachel Cohen, Professor of Practice in the Arts, Department of English and Program in Creative Writing

This event is organized by the Smart Museum of Art and co-sponsored by the RAVE and Speaking of Art workshops.

Snacks and beverages will be served.

"Incorporating mountains for understanding man-made counterparts in Teotihuacan's ceremonial heart"

Yifan Zou, PhD student, Art History

Respondent: Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor of Art History and the College

Snacks and beverages will be served.

Mock CAA Panel

Savannah Esquiviel, "Colonial Ghosts: Silences and (In)visibilities in Sixteenth Century New Spain"

Maggie Borowitz, "'El cuerpo de verdad': the bodily, bodilessness, and the feminist body politic"

Tingting Xu, "Penetrating Temporality: Thinking about the Internal Histories of Nineteenth-century Photography"

Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, "'Every Bar You've Ever Been Into': Haptics, Memory, and Motional Empathy in Paula Dawson's Holograms"

"Metapictures Cloud Atlas"

W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of English, Art History, and Visual Arts

Respondent: Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor of Art History, Visual Arts and the College; Chair, Department of Visual Arts

Snacks and beverages will be served.

"The thread of fate in Posidippus' funerary epigrams (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309, 45; 46;49;55.)"

Laura R. Bevilacqua, PhD student, Classics

Respondent: Bermet Nishanova, PhD student, Art History

Snacks and beverages will be served.