FALL 2018
October 10
Maggie Borowitz, PhD student, Department of Art History
“Caught by Surprise: Intimacy and Feminist Politics in the work of Magali Lara and Wanda Pimentel”
Respondent: Hanne Graversen, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
No pre-circulated paper.
October 24
Special Event – Speaking of Art: Peer Feedback on Interview Projects in Progress
**This event will take place at 12pm in CWAC 156**
As part of the workshop series Speaking of Art: Artist Interviews in Scholarship and Practice, graduate students who conduct interviews with creative practitioners as part of their research will have the opportunity to discuss methods and exchange ideas in an informal roundtable setting. If you are interested in giving a brief presentation of your work, please contact Maggie Borowitz (mkbwitz@uchicago.edu) and Zsofi Valyi-Nagy (zsvn@uchicago.edu).
November 14
Nancy Thebaut, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
“Hidden Face(t)s: The Study and Photography of Rückenfiguren on Early Medieval Ivory Plaques”
Respondent: Joel Snyder, Professor, Department of Art History
Paper will be pre-circulated one week in advance.
November 28
George Adams, PhD candidate, Department of Music
“Conceptualism, Minimalism, and Steve Reich’s Instrumental Music”
Respondent: Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, PhD student, Department of Art History
No pre-circulated paper.
WINTER 2019
January 23, 5pm in CWAC 152
Alice Goff, Assistant Professor, Department of History
“Hegel’s Neighbor: The Royal Museum of Art in Berlin”
Respondent: Martha Ward, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
*Please note the slightly later start time for this week. No pre-circulated paper.
February 6, 5:30-7:30pm 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.
February 27
Christine Zappella, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
“The Color of Tradition,” Chapter 1 of “Monochrome Painting and the Construction of the Renaissance Self: Andrea del Sarto in the Scalzo”
Respondent: Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
*No pre-circulated paper.
In partnership with the African Studies Workshop:
Tuesday, March 12th, 5:30pm in Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave)
Angie Epifano, PhD student, Department of Art History
“Objects of Resistance: Commerce, Colonialism, and the Regalia of the Wassoulou Empire.”
Respondent: Kelsey Rooney, PhD student, Department of Anthropology
*Paper pre-circulated.
**Please note special day, time, and location!
SPRING 2019
Monday, April 1 at 12pm in CWAC 156
Jaś Elsner, Visiting Professor of Art and Religion, the Divinity School & Department of Art History
“The Buddha’s Footprint from Amaravati: Visual Theology and the Limits of Representation”
Respondent: Alice Casalini, PhD student, Department of Art History
*No pre-circulated paper.
**Please note the special day, time, and location of this workshop. Lunch will be provided!
Friday, April 5 at 3pm, Saieh Hall 203
Andrew Raftery, Professor of Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design
“Copying as Research”
Respondent: Anatole Upart, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
Presented in partnership with the Early Modern & Mediterranean Worlds Workshop
*No pre-circulated paper.
**Please note the special day, time, and location of this workshop.
April 17
Sylvia Wu, PhD student, Department of Art History
“Regionality as Approach: Quanzhou’s Ashab Mosque in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties”
Respondent: Bermet Nishanova, PhD student, Department of Art History
*No pre-circulated paper.
April 24
Karin Krause, Assistant Professor of Byzantine Theology and Visual Culture, Divinity School
“Icons Dead or Alive? Inspired Images in Byzantium”
Respondent: Christopher Allison, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities
*No pre-circulated paper.
May 8
Nancy P. Lin, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
“Going Outdoors: Keepers of the Waters and Experiments in Site-Based Art Practice in the 1990s”
Respondent: Mechtild Widrich, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Presented in partnership with the workshop on Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia
*No pre-circulated paper.
May 15 **SPECIAL EVENT**
Aaron M. Hyman, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
“Baroque Assumptions”
*No pre-circulated paper.
May 29
Zhenru Zhou, PhD student, Department of Art History
“Vision and Place: The Buddhist Paradisiacal Architecture between the Chinese Mountains and Waters”
Respondent: Anatole Upart, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
*Paper will be pre-circulated one week in advance.
June 5 at 6pm
Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, PhD student, Department of Art History
“’Every Bar You’ve Ever Been Into’: Haptics, Memory, and Motional Empathy in Paula Dawson’s Holograms”
Respondent: Sophie Lynch, PhD student, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
*No pre-circulated paper.
**Please note special time of this workshop.