"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."
Thursday, September 30, 5:00 - 6:20pm
Keynote Lecture
What do Portraits Want? What Do People Want When They Call Images "Portraits"? - Marion Meyer, University of Vienna, Department of Classical Archaeology
The Department of Classics will host a reception after the lecture.
Friday, October 1, 9:30am - 5:00pm
9:30 - 10:00am: Coffee & Pastries
A small set of obsidian slabs have been recovered from the houses of Roman Pompeii. There, panels of a dark stone were included in black painted walls and surrounded by painted frames as ‘mirrors. ’This lecture explores the function and meaning of obsidian mirrors in light of Roman discourse on matters and their qualities, both physical and ethical.