Department of Art History

Milette Gaifman, Associate Professor of Classics and History of Art, Yale University

Lecture 2: "The Limits of Taxonomy"

Milette Gaifman, Associate Professor of Classics and History of Art, Yale University

Lecture 1: "How to View a Dionysiac Monument"

Speakers include:

Claudia Brittenham, "Locating landscape in Maya painting"

Jas Elsner, "Space/object/landscape: Some reflections on form"

Richard Neer, "Greek world pictures and the sense of scale"

Wu Hung, "Realm of wilderness: The emergence of landscape in Chinese art"

Desires, so Joel Snyder wrote in a noted critical review from 1999, “cannot emerge prior to a network of specific practices—to the contrary, they are elicited by these practices.” Snyder was then commenting on the application of Michel Foucault’s ideas; but that conjunction of philosophically informed critique and attention to specificity speaks centrally to his own work.

PLEASE NOTE THE REVISED START TIME OF 3:30PM.

After seizing Jerusalem’s eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world’s most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as simple as it was controversial: to both Judaize and modernize Jerusalem. Prof.

Carl Fuldner (PhD candidate, Art History) and Shane DuBay (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology) will discuss their collaborative project that began in 2014–15 as The Phoenix Index—a recipient of an Arts, Science + Culture Graduate Collaboration Grant. This presentation of striking

Thomas Burman, Professor and Robert M. Conway Director, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame

Title TBA

This event is co-sponsored by the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop.

David Orsbon, PhD Candidate, Classics and Comparative Literature

Tentative title: “Bernard Silvestris, Integumentum, and the Person of Natura”