RAVE: Lex Ladge

“Local and Imperial Identities at the ‘Amfiteatro Campano’ in Capua”

Lex Ladge, PhD student, Department of Art History

“Local and Imperial Identities at the ‘Amfiteatro Campano’ in Capua”

Respondent: Roko Rumora, PhD student, Department of Art History

*Please note that this meeting takes place on a Friday.
**Paper will be circulated at the beginning of the week.

The Attractions of the Moving Image: A Celebration of Tom Gunning

The Department of Cinema and Media Studies invites you to help us celebrate the career and achievements of Tom Gunning on Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26. With presentations from an exciting array of scholars and filmmakers, we’ll celebrate Tom with a unique conversation around the art of the moving image, in all its historical, theoretical, and aesthetic registers. 

Jennifer Josten: Rethinking Mesoamerican Monumentality

Rethinking Mesoamerican Monumentality, from Midcentury Mexico City to Chicano Los Angeles

Mexican Studies Seminar Fall 2019

Jennifer Josten is Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the Univeristy of Pittsburgh, where she also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures and is core faculty in the Center for Latin American Studies.

After Fiction: Sianne Ngai

After Fiction

“That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.” This is the OED definition of fiction.

After Fiction: Patrick Jagoda

After Fiction

“That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.” This is the OED definition of fiction.

After Fiction: Anna Kornbluh

After Fiction

“That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.” This is the OED definition of fiction.

VMPEA: Alice Casalini

"A Preliminary Survey of the Swat Valley and the Taxila Region"

Alice Casalini, PhD student, Department of Art History  

Freedom of Expression and Contemporary Art: Contextualizing Japan's Aichi Triennale

Schedule:

14:00 Welcoming Remarks

14:15 Kirsten Cather (UT Austin), "Japanese Censorship in Theory & Practice"

15:00 Namiko Kunimoto (Ohio State) "Art and Activism in Japan"

15:45 Shimada Yoshiko, " 'Being a Statue of Non Freedom of Expression' : Gender is the Core Issue of the Censorship"

16:45 Roundtable Discussion: Kyeong-hee Choi (UChicago), Laura Hein (Northwestern), Matthew Jesse Jackson (UChicago), W.J.T. Mitchell (UChicago)

18:00 Reception

 

Free and Open to the Public

 

Art and Materiality Symposium

Art and Materiality Symposium

February 6–8, 2020 | The University of Chicago

Presented in conjunction with the opening weekend of The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, this symposium uses the lens of materiality to investigate topics central to the development and study of art around the world.

Workshop on Embodiment: Texts and Objects

Featured presentations: 

Morning session: CWAC 157

11-11:15: Introductory remarks (Seth Estrin and Sarah Nooter)

11:15-1:15: Images in practice

       11:15 Angharad Darden “Euripides' Ion and the Acropolis”

       11:55 Karin Krause “Incarnation Symbolism: the Mandylion and Its Multiples”

       12:35 May Peterson “Amuletic or Cosmetic? A Late-Antique Alabaster Mirror-Plaque at the Art Institute of Chicago”

Afternoon session: Classics 21