May 4, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Mariola Alvarez will present a paper at the "Women in Abstraction. Another History of Abstraction in the 20th Century" Symposium, May 19-21, 2021. The symposium is organized by the Musée National d'Art Moderne and the Pompidou Museum in Paris.
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April 29, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Mariola V. Alvarez has been awarded a Regional Faculty Fellowship with the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2021–2022 academic year. Alvarez will join Mellon postdoctoral fellows, advanced doctoral fellows, and faculty fellows from Penn and other institutions throughout the region, whose work represents a wide range of disciplines in the humanities. Alvarez will present work on early twentieth century immigrant artist groups in São Paulo, Brazil as part of the Center's Mellon Research Seminar on "Migration."
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April 8, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
India Thorne was awarded a SROP summer grant for her internship at the Penn Museum.
Aine Playdon was awarded a TU Diamond Research Undergraduate grant. She will be working with Prof Evans on a project about ancient female athletes, and will be presenting the results of her work at the Diamond Research conference in the fall.
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April 6, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Michael's project is to start preliminary research for his dissertation on mosques in Azerbaijan.
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April 5, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Congrats to the winners of competitive awards for internships for this summer:
Jessica Aguilar has been selected as Summer 2021 Curatorial Intern with the Brandywine River Museum of Art
Triana Cancel has been selected for the Barnes Foundation's Summer internship program
India Thorne has been selected for an internship with the Near Eastern Deptartment of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
congrats to all, and kudos for the successful work you put into the applications!
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March 23, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Kira will be presenting "Embroidered Samplers: Self-Portraits of America's Forgotten Artists" on Friday April 9 at 2:15.We are pleased to invite you to explore the website for the 2021 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium at https://hawksites.newpaltz.edu/arthistorystudentsymposium/
The website contains the event’s full schedule along with the 98 speakers’ abstracts and photographs. Talks will be given during twelve sessions held over three days, from April 9th to 11th.
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March 23, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Liam will be giving a paper, "The Elegy in the Expanse: Water as a Medium of Memory in Afterlives of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" on Thursday April 22 in the 1:00-2:45 panel, "Material Memory". The conference, Mnemonic Aesthetics: Memory and Trauma in Art, April 22 and 23, hosted by the Rutgers University Graduate Students.
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March 23, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
I'm thrilled to share that I was awarded a Getty Research Institute postdoctoral fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year devoted to the theme of "The Fragment." Due to covid, the fellowship will be fully remote.
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March 22, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Cooper's article, "Intermediality, Image & Text in the Construction & Circulation of Cassinese Identity," is in The Network of Cassinese Arts in Renaissance Italy, edited by Alessandro Nova and Giancarla Periti (Officina Libraria, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut).
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