"The thread of fate in Posidippus' funerary epigrams (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309, 45; 46;49;55.)"
Laura R. Bevilacqua, PhD student, Classics
Respondent: Bermet Nishanova, PhD student, Art History
Snacks and beverages will be served.
This week, students of Luke Joyner’s “Imagining Chicago’s Common Buildings” fall course are displaying their final projects in the Biennial Pin-Up Space at the 2020 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Taking Chicago’s common residential buildings (and their history and residents) as a starting point, the course culminated in five designs for infill housing projects in Back of the Yards on Chicago’s South Side.
"History Embodied: Entombing the Past in Late Medieval Toledo"
Benjamin Diego, PhD student, Department of Art History
Respondent: Carly Boxer, PhD student, Department of Art History
Snacks and beverages will be served.
The Department of Art History is pleased to announce the 2019–20 Andrew W. Mellon Chicago Objects Study Initiative (COSI) Fellows and Rhoades Curatorial Intern at the Art Institute of Chicago. PhD candidates Maggie Borowitz and Chloé M. Pelletier will serve as this year’s COSI Fellows, while Zhiyan Yang will serve as the Rhoades Curatorial Intern.
This talk traces a history of craft practices and object making that centered on the body as both a source of stimulus and site of contestation for addressing urgent questions of gender and sexuality during the decade when identity politics elided with a new materiality in artistic production.
Free
Presented by the Department of Art History as part of the 2019/20 Smart Lecture series supported by the Smart Family Foundation.
The art of sensing moods mattered in precolonial South Asia. The eighteenth-century painters of Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, suggest that the moods of pleasure and prosperity mattered even more. The moods of grand-scale paintings, larger in size than manuscripts and portraits, which could be held in a single hand, emerged in the enchanting depictions of lime-washed palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars.
The Mexican Studies Seminar invites visiting and UChicago scholars to present their work in an informal atmosphere, providing Mexican studies faculty and students with the opportunity to debate and discuss scholarly research and inquiry on Mexico from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives.