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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January 30, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Wednesday, February 21
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Tyler B081
In her lecture Fabricating a Glittering Past: The Origins of the ‘Anglo-Saxons, Tyler alum Dr. Rachael Vause (MA '14) will discuss the art and archaeology of early English art, including the burial mound of Sutton Hoo, and amulets and cross pendants that reconstruct belief systems. An early medieval art historian, Vause holds a PhD in art history from the University of Delaware.
This lecture is free and open to the public
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January 30, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The book, The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries, is co-edited with Zachary Stewart. This volume is part of Brill's Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe series.
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January 30, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Join us for a party to celebrate the publications of three faculty members:
Assoc. Prof. Leah Modigliani: Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City
Assoc. Prof. Erin Pauwels: Napoleon Sarony's Living Pictures
Asst. Prof. Mariola Alvarez: The Affinity of Neoconcretism
Feb 1 beginning at 6 Temple Contemporary; light refreshments provided
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