December 7, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Jackie moderated a conversation concerning the interpretation of L'Enfant's plan for Washington, DC with Elise Friedland (Classics, GWU) and the artist Peter Waddell, who paints scenes of American history. A recording of the conversation can be found at https://vimeo.com/878754870
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December 1, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The UC Press announced Mariola's term as co-editor in chief of Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture; she assumes the position after the journal’s founding editor-in-chief, Charlene Villaseñor Black, steps down. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the most current international research on the visual culture of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as that created in diaspora. A defining focus of the journal is its concentration of current scholarship on both Latin American and Latinx visual culture in a single publication. The journal aims to approach ancient, colonial, modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx visual culture from a range of interdisciplinary methodologies and perspectives.
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November 30, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Pauwels was nominated by two museum colleagues based on her publications about the histories of photography and lithographic printmaking. The Print Council of American was founded in In 1956, by Lessing J. Rosenwald and a group of museum directors and curators as a non-profit organization “fostering the creation, dissemination, and appreciation of fine prints, new and old.” Since then, the Council has continued to grow and evolve as a professional organization with an elected membership, reflecting tremendous expansion in the fields of print curatorship, scholarship, and museum practice, and embracing the specialties of drawings, photography, and conservation.
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November 30, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emma will present at the CIHA (Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art) 2024 conference which is taking place in Lyon, France from June 23-28, 2024. Her paper "Between North and. South: A New Reading of Andrea Mantegna's Distemper and Monochromatic Paintings" was accepted into a panel entitled "Painting the Materials, Imitating the Techniques: A Dialogue Between Mediums in Early Modern Art" .
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November 21, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Professors Mariola Alvarez and Erin Pauwels were honored as faculty authors at a basketball game on Nov 18. The picture shows them being congratulated by Hooter the Owl, among others!
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November 14, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Alvarez is co-editor of the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, published by the University of California Press. The journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the most current international research on the visual culture of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as that created in diaspora. A defining focus of the journal is its concentration of current scholarship on both Latin American and Latinx visual culture in a single publication. The journal aims to approach ancient, colonial, modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx visual culture from a range of interdisciplinary methodologies and perspectives.
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November 9, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Özlem Yıldız (PhD candidate), Ryan Mitchell (PhD student) and Miray Eroglu (PhD student) participated in an Islamic Art Study Day at Freer Gallery of Art in the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art as part of the awarding ceremony of the Charles Lang Freer Medal and lecture honoring Gülru Necipoğlu on October 28, 2023. On October 29th 2023, Yıldız, Mitchell and Eroglu visited the Freer Collection's special collection with curators Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig to look at works of art in the collections inspired by Professor Necipoğlu's lecture: "From China to Europe: A Topkapi Palace Album with Images in the Persianate, Cathayan, Frankish Manners (c. 1350-1500)."
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