Research in Art & Visual Evidence

2017-18

FALL 2017

11 October:
Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History
“The Inscribed Studio Portrait as Self-image: Photographing a New Self in Early Twentieth-Century China”
Respondent: Andrei Pop, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
No pre-circulated paper.
18 October: 
Joana Konova, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
“Strategies and Meaning of Restoration of Ancient Sculpture in Late Renaissance Rome”
Respondent: Patrick Crowley, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History
No pre-circulated paper.
1 November: 
Brandon Sward, PhD student, Department of Sociology
“’Identity Specificity’ and the Art of the AIDS Crisis”
Respondent: Maggie Borowitz, PhD student, Department of Art History
Paper will be pre-circulated one week in advance. 
8 November: 
Laura Steward, Curator of Public Art and Director of the Open Practice Committee, Smart Museum of Art and the Department of Visual Arts
“Complexity for Art Historians: Ann Hamilton Case Study”
Respondent: Jason Salavon, Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts
No pre-circulated paper.
29 November: 
Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, PhD student, Department of Art History
Qualifying Paper, Title TBD
Respondent: Solveig Nelson, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
No pre-circulated paper.

 

WINTER 2018

17 January:
Tania Islas Weinstein, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science
“Ni Sumisos, ni Activistas: The New Politics of Artistic Production in Contemporary Mexico”
Respondent: Hanne Graversen, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
Paper will be pre-circulated one week in advance.
24 January: 
Kris Driggers, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
“The Codex Durán: Paste-Over Paintings: Rethinking Image as Evidence”
Respondent: Melissa Horn, PhD student, Department of Art History
Paper will be pre-circulated one week in advance.
7 February: 
Zhenru Zhou, PhD student, Department of Art History
“The Built Environment at the Mogao Grottoes in Tenth-Century Dunhuang, China”
Respondent: Anne Feng, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
Paper will be pre-circulated one week in advance. 
14 February: Special Event – College Art Association Practice Panel
Anne Feng, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
“The Aquatic Imaginaire of Silk Road Buddhist Caves”
Savannah Esquivel, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
“‘These things do not exist’: Painting Grotesques in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”
 Solveig Nelson, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
“The Televisual”
There are no pre-circulated papers. 
**Please note that this event will be held in CWAC 157, from 4:30-7pm. A full catered dinner will be served during the event.** 
28 February: 
Seth Estrin, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History
“Songs to Match Stones: Sirens on the Edge of the Classical Attic Funerary Monument”
Respondent: Wei-Cheng Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
No pre-circulated paper.
7 March: 
Andrei Pop, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
“The Doubling Problem: or, How Photography Upended Perspective in Painting”
Respondent: Joel Snyder, Professor, Department of Art History
No pre-circulated paper.

 

SPRING 2018

Monday 26 March, 12 – 1:30pm, CWAC 152:
Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
“Memory and Forgetting at La Venta, Mexico”
Respondent: Richard Neer, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History
No pre-circulated paper.
*Please note the special date, time, and location, held to coincide with this year’s prospective students visit. A catered lunch will be served.
11 April
Angie Epifano, PhD student, Department of Art History
“The Fabric of Resistance: Commerce, Colonialism, and the Regalia of Samoury Touré”
Respondent: Sylvia Wu, PhD student, Department of Art History
No pre-circulated paper.
18 April5 – 7pm in the Logan Center studio clusters: 
Special Event – Open Studios with MFA students in the Department of Visual Arts
Get a glimpse into what the MFA students have been working on lately. Drop in for a few minutes or stay for the whole time.
*Please note the special time and location. A full catered dinner will be provided for this event.
2 May
Rana Choi, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Comparative Literature
“Perspective as memento mori in Shakespeare’s plays”
Respondent: Chloe Pelletier, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History
Paper will be pre-circulated one week in advance.
16 May
Special Event – Cybele Tom, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Objects Conservation, The Art Institute of Chicago
Ms. Tom will present her research in progress on European polychrome sculptures. Further details forthcoming.
No pre-circulated paper.
*All interested students and faculty will be invited to attend a dinner following Ms. Tom’s presentation.