PAN: The Avant-Garde Point of View with Dr. Max Koss

Art historian and alumnus Dr. Max Koss will present this lecture on the aesthetic and history of Berlin’s art and literary journal PAN with the Driehaus Museum. He also appeared last September during the episode of Live From the Drawing Room: The Art of Entertaining to introduce The Chap-Book and the development of poster art in the late 1800s.

Wu Hung Receives Accolades for Recent Publication

Congratulations to Wu Hung (Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College and Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum of Art) for being awarded two prizes in January, 2021 for his new book, First Class: Teaching Chinese Art History at Harvard University and the University of Chicago (Hunan Art Press 2020, in Chinese).

RAVE: Rowanne Dean

Please join us for a presentation by Rowanne Dean (Art History PhD Student). She will be presenting her QP titled “Long-Memoried Images: A Celtic Revival Shrine for the Irish Free State.” 

Luke Fidler (Art History Ph.D. Candidate) will offer a response.

Speaking of Art: Zsofi Valyi-Nagy

Speaking of Art. Co-coordinator Zsofi Valyi-Nagy presenting (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) presenting Herstory or mine? Writing feminist histories of art with self-mythologies in mind.

Speaking of Art: Saadia Mirza

Saadia Mirza (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology) presenting A Phenomenology of Iceberg Collisions: Investigating Sound-Image mapping. There is no pre-circulated paper. Saadia will present excerpts of sound and image from two works that deal with the topic of remote sensing in collaboration with archaeologists, glaciologists, and geophysicists. (Please use headphones to enjoy the sound fully).

Speaking of Art: Jennifer Thatcher

Jennifer Thatcher (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh) and Lucia Farinati (Independent Researcher) presenting The Artist Interview: Challenging the Biographical Paradigm. Access the pre-circulated paper here with the password "Mapping".

Speaking of Art: Pranathi Diwakar

Pranathi Diwakar (PhD Candidate, Sociology) presenting Translation, Bilinguality, and Caste Identity in Musical Ethnographic Research. There is no pre-circulated paper. 

Speaking of Art: Jazmine Harris and Stephanie Koch

Jazmine Harris (Artist) and Stephanie Koch (Independent curator and Co-founder, Annas) presenting Articulating Worlds: Interviews as Third Space. 

Speaking of Art: Keenan Jay

Please join us this Thursday, February 4 for a presentation by Keenan Jay (MA Program in the Humanities Student, Art History) entitled "Oral History and Taste: Social Constellations of the 1980s East Village." There is no pre-circulated paper.

Speaking of Art: Kelly Lloyd

Kelly Lloyd (DPhil Student, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) will be presenting her work in progress, "Responsibilities of Care: Before, During, and After the Interview." There is no pre-circulated material.