The Department of Art History is proud to celebrate its graduating doctoral students for the 2020-21 academic year. We wish them the best as they embark on the next phase of their careers.
Savannah Esquivel
Congratulations to Zsofia Valyi-Nagy (PhD Candidate) for being selected as one of two recipients for the 2021 Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence! The award acknowledges Valyi-Nagy’s outstanding performance as a graduate student teacher and the impact she has made on undergraduate students.
Margareta Ingrid Christian will discuss Objects in Air: Artworks and Their Outside around 1900. She will be joined in conversation with Catriona MacLeod. This event is presented by the Seminary Co-op in partnership with the University of Chicago Press.
Margareta Ingrid Christian will discuss Objects in Air: Artworks and Their Outside around 1900. She will be joined in conversation with Catriona MacLeod. This event is presented by the Seminary Co-op in partnership with the University of Chicago Press.
Congratulations to Zhenru Zhou and Zsofi Valyi-Nagy (PhD Candidates, Art History) for being awarded Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) Fellowships!
Congratulations to Persis Berlekamp (Associate Professor of Art History and the College and Affiliated Faculty in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) for receiving the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring! The award recognizes regular, full-time faculty members in the four divisions and the Divinity School for exemplary graduate teaching.
Exhibitions of East Asian art have been a major aspect of the creation and dissemination of historical knowledge of East Asia in the West since the early twentieth century. Exhibitions offer the first-hand and authentic experience of East Asian art and have made important contributions to scholarship and the understanding artistic traditions and the formation of the field of study of East Asian art history as an academic discipline.
Presented by Bridget Madden and Allie Scholten (Visual Resource Center) and Claudia Brittenham (Art History). This workshop is for students in any field who are collecting images as part of their research.
This workshop will introduce (1) methods for taking better pictures of sites, architecture, or objects in an archive and in the field; (2) how to catalog images; and (3) image permissions in the US and Latin America. We will briefly address the ethics of using photographs of people, as well as issues related to national patrimony in the region.
The Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art is currently exhibiting Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe
Join us for an evening conversation about the place of artworks in the personal lives of their beholders, both past and present.