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Back to Blog February 4, 2025

Tyler Art History at CAA 2025!

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Tyler is being well represented, by students and faculty at the CAA 2025 Annual Meeting. Congratulations to all!

-Feb 12 (Wednesday)

Li Machado (PhD candidate) is a discussant in the panel, "The Students and Emerging Professionals Committee’s (SEPC) Guide To All Things CAA*

Prof Leah Modigliani is presenting, “Killer Buildings, Verticality and Warped Space: the Catastrophic Return(s) of Tower Block Failure” in the session Environmental Culture, Urban Artscapes and the Urbanocene

·Alexandra Schoolman (PhD candidate) is presenting, “Virginia Errázuriz and Alternative Solidarity Networks in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship” in the session Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages

-Feb 13 (Thursday)

Jessica Braum (PhD candidate) is chairing the session "Reimagining British Art: The Contributions of Transnational Artists in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s"

Lauren McCardle (PhD candidate) is chairing the session "Women Artists in Modern Movements"

·Jessica Braum (“Probing the Nature of Existence: Joan Brassil’s Kinetic Materialization of Time and Light”) and Lily F. Scott (PhD candidate, “Precarious Encounters & Connoting Ephemera of Trauma: An Examination of Interwar Sapphic Portraiture”) are both presenting in the session "Complicating Perception: Re-Coding Time and Place"

·Özlem Yıldız (PhD candidate) is presenting, “Illustrating Women in the Tales of the Prophets in Sixteenth-Century Islamic Manuscripts”, in the session, "Ungovernable Bodies"

-Feb 14 (Friday)

Nicole Emser (PhD candidate) is chairing the session, "Navigating the changing terrain of fair use in the digital world*

Prof. Mariola Alvarez is a discussant for the session, "Brazilian & U.S. Art in Exile: Transnationalism, Migration, and the Politics of Being “Latin American” in the United States and Brazil"

Megan Voeller (PhD candidate) is presenting in a session she is also chairing: “Racial Injury and Ancestral Healing in the Photographic Archive” in "Healing and the Museum: Critical Perspectives in 21st Century Art"

Nicole Emser is chairing the session, "Challenges of Teaching: What, Why, How, and Solutions for Right Now*

Joanna Platt (PhD candidate) is presenting, “Printmaking as Labor: Images of Industry from the WPA-Sponsored Fine Print Workshop in Philadelphia” in the session "The “Work” of Art in American Culture from the New Deal to Now"

-Feb 15 (Saturday)

Jessica Braum is a discussant for the session, "Expanding the Practice of Research: Transdisciplinarity in Art and Art History"

Nicole Emser is chairing the session, "Highlights in Undergraduate Art & Design Research (Session 1)" and Highlights in Undergraduate Art & Design Research (Session 2)"

Srđan Tunić (PhD student) is presenting, “"Block Bro Brooklyn Bro": The Origin Myth of New York Graffiti and Transnational Hybrids--case study of Belgrade, Serbia” in the session "New Painting: Recentered Perspectives"