Genealogies of the Screen: Surface/Canvas/Scrim
PLEASE NOTE THE REVISED START TIME OF 3:30PM.
Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification
After seizing Jerusalem’s eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world’s most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as simple as it was controversial: to both Judaize and modernize Jerusalem. Prof.
Polluted Wildlife: Reconstructing the Anthropocene in the Museum
Carl Fuldner (PhD candidate, Art History) and Shane DuBay (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology) will discuss their collaborative project that began in 2014–15 as The Phoenix Index—a recipient of an Arts, Science + Culture Graduate Collaboration Grant. This presentation of striking
Medieval Studies: Thomas Burman
Thomas Burman, Professor and Robert M. Conway Director, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
Title TBA
This event is co-sponsored by the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop.
Medieval Studies: David Orsbon
David Orsbon, PhD Candidate, Classics and Comparative Literature
Tentative title: “Bernard Silvestris, Integumentum, and the Person of Natura”
Medieval Studies: Lisa Scott
Lisa Scott, PhD Candidate, History
“‘The Lords, Knights, and Cities’: The Estates and Assembly in their Institutional Context”
Medieval Studies: Boccaccio’s Painters
Boccaccio’s Painters
Panelists:
Zygmunt Baranski (Notre Dame; Univ. of Cambridge), "Humble Giotto and Pharisaic Forese: Boccaccio's Decameron VI.5"
Justin Steinberg (Romance Languages and Literatures, UChicago), "The Artist and the Police: Calandrino's Invisibility and the Legal Fictions of Decameron 8.3"
This event is co-sponsored by RAVE and the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop.
Medieval Studies: Sam Baudinette
Sam Baudinette, PhD Student, History of Christianity
“Tetragrammatic Translation: Maimonidean Arguments about the Divine Names in the Christian Hebraism of Ramon Martí and Meister Eckhart”
Medieval Studies: Lucy Pick
Lucy Pick, Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity and Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Faculty in History
"Don’t You Forget About Me: Memory, Gift and Death in the Early Spanish Kingdoms”
Careers in University Museums: A Conversation with Alison Gass (Director, Smart Museum) and Christina Olsen (Director, U-M Museum of Art)
Are you interested in working in a museum after finishing your M.A. or Ph.D. program? Join Christina Olsen (B.A.