Department of Art History

The art of sensing moods mattered in precolonial South Asia. The eighteenth-century painters of Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, suggest that the moods of pleasure and prosperity mattered even more. The moods of grand-scale paintings, larger in size than manuscripts and portraits, which could be held in a single hand, emerged in the enchanting depictions of lime-washed palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars.

The Mexican Studies Seminar invites visiting and UChicago scholars to present their work in an informal atmosphere, providing Mexican studies faculty and students with the opportunity to debate and discuss scholarly research and inquiry on Mexico from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives.

“Local and Imperial Identities at the ‘Amfiteatro Campano’ in Capua”

Lex Ladge, PhD student, Department of Art History

“Local and Imperial Identities at the ‘Amfiteatro Campano’ in Capua”

Respondent: Roko Rumora, PhD student, Department of Art History

*Please note that this meeting takes place on a Friday.
**Paper will be circulated at the beginning of the week.

The Department of Cinema and Media Studies invites you to help us celebrate the career and achievements of Tom Gunning on Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26. With presentations from an exciting array of scholars and filmmakers, we’ll celebrate Tom with a unique conversation around the art of the moving image, in all its historical, theoretical, and aesthetic registers. 

Rethinking Mesoamerican Monumentality, from Midcentury Mexico City to Chicano Los Angeles

Mexican Studies Seminar Fall 2019

Jennifer Josten is Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the Univeristy of Pittsburgh, where she also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures and is core faculty in the Center for Latin American Studies.

After Fiction

“That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.” This is the OED definition of fiction.

After Fiction

“That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.” This is the OED definition of fiction.

After Fiction

“That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.” This is the OED definition of fiction.

"A Preliminary Survey of the Swat Valley and the Taxila Region"

Alice Casalini, PhD student, Department of Art History  

Schedule:

14:00 Welcoming Remarks

14:15 Kirsten Cather (UT Austin), "Japanese Censorship in Theory & Practice"

15:00 Namiko Kunimoto (Ohio State) "Art and Activism in Japan"

15:45 Shimada Yoshiko, " 'Being a Statue of Non Freedom of Expression' : Gender is the Core Issue of the Censorship"

16:45 Roundtable Discussion: Kyeong-hee Choi (UChicago), Laura Hein (Northwestern), Matthew Jesse Jackson (UChicago), W.J.T. Mitchell (UChicago)

18:00 Reception

Free and Open to the Public