Department of Art History

"Flipping Over and Stretching Out: Reading an Accordion-Fold Painting"

 Speaker: Lucien Sun (Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History)

Discussant: Shiqiu Liu (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Melbourne)

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"Inscribing Piety: Monumental Inscriptions from Quanzhou"

Speaker: Sylvia Fan Wu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History 

Discussant: Wei-cheng Lin, Associate Professor of Art History and the College

Chinese Art and Architecture, University of Chicago

Seth Estrin (Assistant Professor of Art History and the College) will present a paper entitled "The Figure of the Slave on Classical Attic Funerary Monuments."

Roko Rumora (PhD Candidate, Art History) will offer a response.

Zhenru Zhou (PhD Candidate, Art History) will present a paper entitled “Animated Architecture: Picturing Pagodas through the Cave-Temples of Dunhuang, China, 850-1000 CE”. Tamara Golan (Assistant Professor of Art History and the College) will offer a response.

Toby Wu (MAPH Student, Art History)

“Aesthetic Tensions in Water Mediations of the Cold War—Seascapes, Performance & Gameplay in Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s Memorial Project Series (2001-2014)”

May Peterson (Art History PhD Student) will present a paper entitled “A Matter of Life and Death: Early Medieval Experiments in Incarnation, Inhumation, and Representation.” Alice Casalini (Art History PhD Candidate) will offer a response.

During this academic year, the University of Chicago Library is marking the 10th anniversary of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library. With its soaring elliptical glass dome capping a 180-seat Grand Reading Room, the building was designed by the late groundbreaking architect Helmut Jahn and is a triumph for the University and the city of Chicago. We are delighted to welcome Philip Castillo FAIA, Executive President of JAHN, and Professor Christine Mehring, Mary L.

Humanities Day 2021 celebrates its 41st year of showcasing the power of art, literature, philosophy, music, linguistics, and languages. Each year, Humanities Day presents the public with a snapshot of leading humanities research at the University of Chicago.

World-renowned art historian Wu Hung will deliver this year’s Keynote Address, "In the Name of Art—Destruction and Reconstruction."