Please join us for the first part of our Qualifying Paper Symposium, co-sponsored by VMPEA and RAVE. During this two-part event, the second-year PhD students in the art history department will present their QPs.
4:45-5:15: Jenny Harris, “Worlds of Wire: Ruth Asawa’s Sculpture”
5:15-5:45: Li Jiang, “Replicating Death: The Gold Funerary Mask of Princess of the State of Chen (1018)”
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)
"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)
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)
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.
Click here to register for the workshop.
Join the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art for a conversation marking the opening of Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe.
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 (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?"
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.
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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