VMPEA: Wang Lianming

Revisiting the Jesuit Gardens in Eighteenth-Century Beijing

Speaker: Wang Lianming (Assistant Professor of Chinese Art History, Heidelberg University)

Discussant: Yin Wu (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Art History)

VMPEA: Zhenru Zhou

"Anarchitectonic Pagoda Images from Late-medieval Dunhuang"

Speaker: Zhenru Zhou (Ph.D. candidate, Art History)

Discussant: Dr. Katherine Tsiang (Associate Director, Center for the Art of East Asia)

VMPEA: Boyoung Chang

Faraway, so close: North Korea in Contemporary Visual Culture

Speaker: Boyoung Chang (Postdoctoral Fellow East Asian Art, Department of Art History

Discussant: Saena Ryu Dozier (Recent graduate; PhD in Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Workshop 6: Strategies for Managing Your Research PDFs

Make the most of your research PDFs through OCR text recognition. We’ll look at a variety of software & platforms for editing and organizing your PDFs, including Acrobat, Zotero, Box, Evernote, and more. We’ll also discuss platforms for visual brainstorming and collating information and images, such as Miro and OneNote.

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Alumna Julia Langbein Awarded Former Visiting Committee Publication Grant

Congratulations to department alumna Julia Langbein (Ph.D. ’14) for being the inaugural recipient of the Art History Former Visiting Committee Publication Grant! Funded by the department’s former Visiting Committee, this grant supports alumni with the publication of a first book manuscript with an academic press. Julia’s forthcoming publication, Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France, builds on the doctoral research she carried out for her dissertation, “Salon Caricature in Second Empire Paris.”

Roko Rumora Responds to Growing Debate in the Field of Classics

Roko Rumora (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) has been published by Jutarnji List, Croatia's most widely circulated daily newspaper, with his opinion piece, "The Racism of Classics…in Croatia?"

Anneka Lenssen: The Developing Surface: Abstraction in Syria, Algeria, and Morocco circa 1965

What if no painting were flat? What if artists developed works around formlessness as well as form? This lecture explores the multidimensional models of abstract painting proposed in the mid-1960s, a moment defined by liberation struggles and an international art world slowly turning away from object-specific practices of making toward ephemeral, conceptualist work.

Globalized Perceptions: Art History in the Age of Asynchronicity

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago are pleased to announce the third annual Intercollegiate Art History Symposium (IAHS) for undergraduates writing in the Art History field.

The Symposium will be held virtually. Professor Darby English (Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History and the College, University of Chicago) and Professor Daniel Quiles (Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) will serve as co-keynote speakers for the event. 

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