RAVE: Carly Boxer
“Repetition: Practice and Perception as Late Medieval Approaches to Health”
UChicago’s Core: Cultivating a Cornerstone Curriculum
The focus of this discussion will be UChicago’s Core Curriculum: it’s current state, its relevance in higher education and at UChicago today. It will also address different Core sequences, what it means to teach a canon and rethink it, how the Core has evolved, and how in the choices related to the Core come about. Finally, what does YOU BE MY ALLY say and ask of the Core?
VMPEA: Dorothy C. Wong
“Colossal Buddha Statues in China, Past and Present”
Dorothy C. Wong (Professor, Mcintire Department of Art, University of Virginia)
Discussant: Jiayi Zhu (PhD student, EALC, University of Chicago)
Catriona MacLeod wins Women in German Best Article Prize
Congratulations to Catriona MacLeod, the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the College and the Department of Germanic Studies, for winning the Women in German Best Article Prize for her article, “Invisible Sculpture, Latent Violence, and Monumental Parody in Mädchen in Uniform,” which was published in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55, no.
Darby English awarded ASAP 2020 Book Prize
Congratulations to Darby English, the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History, for being awarded the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) 2020 Book Prize for his book, To Describe a L
RAVE: Jessica Stockholder
“Cut a rug a round square.”
Professor Jessica Stockholder will host a discussion about her upcoming exhibition in a talk entitled “Cut a rug a round square.” Professor Stockholder’s respondent will be Christine Mehring, the Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College.
Newly Unearthed Tang Tomb Murals of Simulated Shanshui Paintings -- What Do They Tell Us?
You are invited to attend a two-part online workshop series "Newly Unearthed Tang Tomb Murals of Simulated Shanshui Paintings -- What Do They Tell Us?" (新出土的“拟山水画”唐墓壁画——它们告诉我们什么?) presented by Professor Wu Hung.
The first workshop will take place on Friday, Oct 30 from 5 pm to 7 pm (CDT), the second one will be on Thursday, Nov 5 from 5 pm to 7 pm (CST).* Registration link for Part 2 is here.
*please note CDT to CST transition
Newly Unearthed Tang Tomb Murals of Simulated Shanshui Paintings -- What Do They Tell Us?
You are invited to attend a two-part online workshop series "Newly Unearthed Tang Tomb Murals of Simulated Shanshui Paintings -- What Do They Tell Us?" (新出土的“拟山水画”唐墓壁画——它们告诉我们什么?) presented by Professor Wu Hung.
The first workshop will take place on Friday, Oct 30 from 5 pm to 7 pm (CDT), the second one will be on Thursday, Nov 5 from 5 pm to 7 pm (CST).* Registration for part one of the workshop here.
*please note CDT to CST transition