January 10, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Monica Anke Hahn (PhD candidate, Art History), has been awarded an NEH-Global Book Histories Initiative Scholarship to take a future Rare Book School course. The RBS is an "institute supporting the study of the history of books and printing and related subjects. Students study the history of written, printed, and digital materials with leading scholars and professionals in the field. At various times during the year, RBS offers about 30 five-day courses on topics concerning old and rare books, manuscripts, and special collections. The majority of courses take place in Charlottesville, but courses are also offered in New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Bloomington, New Haven, and Washington, DC." http://rarebookschool.org/
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January 8, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Will Schwaller (PhD candidate, Art History) has been selected for the Getty Library Research grant.
He will also be co-leading a session at the February College Art Association meetings in February 2018.
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December 16, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Dr, Amy Gillette (PhD, 2016), now working at the Barnes Foundation, will present, with Dr. Jack Hinton (PMA) a talk, “A study close at hand of these fine examples of Gothic decoration”: the collecting, interpretation and display of the Taylor collection of English medieval woodcarvings". CONF: Collecting Medieval Art (New York, 27 Jan 18).
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December 13, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Dr. Therese Dolan was honored by the Dept. of Athletics and the Office of the Provost for her outstanding service to Temple University, at the half-time of the men's basketball game against St. Joe's, Dec. 9 (Temple won, too).
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November 27, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Christa Dimarco (MA 2007, PhD 2015), Associate Professor in the Division of Liberal Arts, The University of the Arts presented on “Baudelairean Facture in Van Gogh's Paris-period Portraits” Whitney Kruckenberg (PhD 2014), Adjunct Associate Professor of Art History, Northern Virginia Community College presented on “Style as Artifice in the Works of Mary Cassatt”Suzanne Singletary (PhD 2006), Associate Dean, New Academic Initiatives and Graduate Studies at Jefferson University presented on "Le Culte de nocturne: Baudelaire and le style moderne"Professor Therese Dolan presented on “Enivrez-vous: Manet’s Old Musician and Baudelaire’s Du vin et du hachisch”
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November 15, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Prof Jane DeRose Evans is presenting recent work on the excavation coins of Sardis, Turkey, "Coins and Pottery: Tracking the Numismatic Profile of 4th and 5th Century Sardis" at the annual meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, in Boston. The talk is part of her forthcoming monograph, to be published by Harvard University Press.
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November 3, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Assistant Professor in Art History Erin Pauwels was invited present her research on the American photographer Napoleon Sarony at a Lunchbag Seminar in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC on Thursday, November 9. Her talk will be featured as part of the Museum's noontime seminar series on American Art.
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November 3, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Assistant Professor Jonathan Kline published two chapters in an edited volume on the frescoes of a thirteenth-century monastery in Italy. The bilingual volume is titled Gli Affreschi delle Palazze: Una Storia tra Umbria e America / The Palazze Frescoes: A Tale between Umbria and America. To mark the publication of the volume, Dr. Kline and colleagues from Italy gave lectures on their research at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, and at Temple University.
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October 24, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Christa DiMarco was asked by 6 ABC news, as an expert on the sculpture of Rodin, to comment on the bust of Napoleon recently identified in the Madion, NJ town hall. See the clip here: http://6abc.com/community-events/authentic-rodin-sculpture-found-sitting...
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