RAVE: Lori Waxman & Rachel Cohen

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.

RAVE: Yifan Zou

"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.

RAVE: Mock CAA Panel

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"

RAVE: W.J.T. Mitchell

"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.

RAVE: Laura R. Bevilacqua

"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.

Architecture students exhibit at 2020 Chicago Architecture Biennial

This week, students of Luke Joyner’s “Imagining Chicago’s Common Buildings” fall course are displaying their final projects in the Biennial Pin-Up Space at the 2020 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Taking Chicago’s common residential buildings (and their history and residents) as a starting point, the course culminated in five designs for infill housing projects in Back of the Yards on Chicago’s South Side.

RAVE: Benjamin Diego

"History Embodied: Entombing the Past in Late Medieval Toledo"

Benjamin Diego, PhD student, Department of Art History

Respondent: Carly Boxer, PhD student, Department of Art History

Snacks and beverages will be served.