March 27, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Art History Department was very well represented at the Renaissance Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting, this year held in Chicago from March 21–23, 2024! We’re very proud of the great Early Modern scholarship of our department members and alumni.Emma P. Holter (PhD Student), “Bellini in Black and White: Reconsidering the Uffizi Lamentation;"Jesse Rhian-Yu Sullivan (PhD Candidate), “Ripples on the Surface: Active Dimensionality as a Lens for Understanding Early Renaissance Painting;"Dr. Tracy E. Cooper (Professor), “The Renaissance Book: Lilian Armstrong and Art History;" Dr. Cooper was also the respondent to the Society for the History of Collecting double-panel “Collecting and Knowledge Production through Travel;”
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March 26, 2024
Author: Wanda Motley Odom
Temple's Rome Campus is relocating to Piazza di Spagna, a historic area in the Eternal City that offers students a more immersive cultural experience surrounded by landmarks, museums, cafés and shops.
For almost 30 years, thousands of Tyler and Temple students have enjoyed the temporary homeliness and comfort of the campus, located in a 15th-century palazzo, the Villa Caproni, situated in the historic heart of the city near the Piazza del Popolo. The location, across the Tiber River from Rome’s Prati neighborhood, has provided students with a beautiful and culturally immersive setting for their studies. Read more
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March 18, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Assistant Professor of Instruction Dr. Joseph Kopta spoke at the Medieval Academy of America's 99th Annual Meeting at the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, on March 15, 2024. His paper, "Bookmaking as Knowledge Construction in Byzantine Codices" explored the ways that late Byzantine colophons and recipes for inks and dyes help us understand that the act of bookmaking was itself considered a form of knowledge construction in Byzantium. The session, "Conceptualizing the Knowledge of Artists and Builders in the Global Middle Ages," is the first of two panels on this theme; the second will take place at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan in May 2024. This material comes from Kopta's in-progress book project, tentatively titled The Materiality of the Byzantine Codex.
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February 19, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The survey explores the area around the city of Polatlı in the province of Ankara in central Anatolia to understand the area's landscape context, construct site biographies, and study material culture through a sample surface collection. You can find the report here: click here
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February 12, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The workshop, sponsored by the University of Copenhagen, Rethinking Transcultural Interactions in Visual Art, on April 15-16 2024, will feature Alpesh speaking on "Forever Becoming: Decolonization, Materiality, and Trans* Subjectivity", focused on the series of exhibitions he curated at UrbanGlass in NY.
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February 12, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
We have a bounty of researchers presenting at the CAA annual meetings this month:Nikki Marcel (PhD candidate) chairing three panels: Rebellious Creating: Opacity as Praxis in the Contemporary Caribbean; Writing for Each Other: Collaboration Across Art History and Art Practice; Office Hours: Open Discussion between Students and ProfessorsDr. Alpesh Patel chairing Peer Review Futures Publications CommitteeEmmy Schollenberger (PhD candidate) "Mountains and Memory: The Geography of Japanese Internment Camps in Emma Nishimura's Locating Memory"Noah Randolph (PhD candidate) chairing Uneasy Pieces: Pedagogical Approaches to Sensitive Topics and Controversial Works of Art and co-chairing with Dr. Leah Modigliani, Walls, Blockades, and Barricades: Art at the Margins of the New Enclosures"
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February 1, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
This semester Dr. Emily Neumeier will be spending her sabbatical at Harvard University as a research fellow in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. During this fellowship, she will be pursuing a new research project about practices of architectural restoration in Ottoman and Republican-era Istanbul, which she will discuss in an upcoming lecture on February 8. Neumeier has already begun investigating this topic in an essay that appears in her co-edited volume Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century, which comes out this month with Edinburgh University Press.
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