Research in Art & Visual Evidence

2015-16

FALL 2015

Friday October 2-Saturday 3: Co-sponsored conference,”Empires of Faith.” Swift Hall, 3rd floor lecture hall.

Friday October 9: Maggie Borowitz (PhD student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago): “‘Not a White-Men-Only Terrain, Sorry Boys’: Latin America as Context and Identity in the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres.” Respondent: Daniel K. Phillips.

Friday October 23: Hannah Wiemer (Free University Berlin/Center for Literary and Cultural Research): “Educating Eye and Hand: World War II and the School of Design in Chicago.” Respondent: Max Koss.

Friday November 6: Jennifer Cohen (PhD candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago): “Painting in Print: Robert Motherwell’s New Painting and A la pintura (1968–1972).” This workshop will convene at 10:30 AM.

Monday November 10: Co-sponsored event (with Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop), Luke A. Fidler (PhD student, Department of Art History): “B.I.B.L.E. (Byzantine Instructions Before Leaving Earth).”

Friday December 4: Christine Mehring (Department Chair and Professor of Art History and the College, University of Chicago), “Material Matters: Beuys’ Fat.”

 

WINTER 2016

Wednesday January 13: Special conference preparation session, featuring talks by Jennifer Cohen (PhD candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago) and Solveig Nelson (PhD candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago). *This event will begin at 4:30 PM and will be held in CWAC 157.

Wednesday January 20: Caroline Schopp (PhD candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago): “‘The Most Hated Man in Austria’: Günter Brus, Kunst und Revolution, and the Perversion of Austrian Symbols around 1968.” Respondent: Jenn Sichel (PhD candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago).

Wednesday February 3: Kierra Foley (PhD student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Beer Jars & Bread Loaves: Tracing the Development of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Models.” Respondent: Luke A. Fidler (PhD student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago). *This event will begin at 4:30 PM and will be held in CWAC 156.

Wednesday February 10: Chloé M. Pelletier (PhD student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago): “‘With a Little Help from Giovanni di Paolo’: Roger Brown in the Renaissance.” Respondent: Richard Neer (William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College). *This event will begin at 4:30 PM.

Wednesday March 2: Niall Atkinson (Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Chicago): “Renaissance Travelers and the Cartographic Imagination.” Respondent: Nora S. Lambert (PhD student, Department of Art History). This event is co-sponsored by the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop.

 

 

SPRING 2016

Wednesday April 6: Jenn Sichel (PhD candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago): “‘With What Strange Feelings’: Gene Swenson’s Other Tradition.” Respondent: Tatsiana Zhurauliova (Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows, University of Chicago). *This event will begin at 4:30 PM and will be held in CWAC 157.

Friday April 15: Joseph Leach (PhD candidate, University of Michigan). “On the Scorpion’s Back: Materializing a Nyingma Buddhist Presence in the Western Himalayas.” Respondent: Anne Feng (PhD candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago). *This event will begin at 12 PM.

Saturday April 16: Co-sponsored conference, “Nearness | Rift: Art and Time in the Textiles of Medieval Britain.” *This day-long event will be held in CWAC 157.

Friday April 22: Paulo Knauss (Director of the Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro): “Museum Collections and the Historiography of Colonial Art in Brazil.” Respondent: David Recksieck (PhD Student, Department of Art History). *This event will begin at 12 PM, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies.

Friday April 29: Douglas Gabriel (PhD candidate, Northwestern University): “Revolution from 360 Ft. Below: On the Pyongyang Metro and the Problem of Ground.” Co-sponsored by the Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop*This event will begin at 4:30 PM and will be held in CWAC 156.

Wednesday May 18: Carly B. Boxer (PhD student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago): “Fluid Color: Uroscopy and Relative Visual Judgment in Late Medieval England.” Respondent: Claire Jenson (PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago).