FALL 2020
September 30
Lucien Sun, PhD Student, Art History
“Arranging the Conquests: Section I of the Codex Mendoza”
Respondent: Yifan Zou, PhD Student, Art History
October 14
Christine Zappella, PhD Candidate, Art History
“What Being an NYC Public School Teacher Taught Me about Being an Art Historian: Some Thoughts on How to ‘Decolonize’ the Art Museum Right Now and Why We Need to Stop Saying That.”
Respondents: Dr. Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Visiting Senior Scholar for Drawings (Harvard Art Museum), Visiting Lecturer (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University), and former Curator of Old Master Drawings (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), and Keith Miller, J.D., NYC public school teacher and professional representative of the United Federation of Teachers
November 2 (Monday)
Jessica Stockholder, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Visual Arts
“Cut a rug a round square”
Respondent: Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College
November 11
Carly Boxer, PhD Candidate, Art History
“Repetition: Practice and Perception as Late Medieval Approaches to Health”
Respondent: Tamara Golan, Assistant Professor of Art History and the College
November 23 (Monday)
Luiza Osorio G. da Silva, PhD Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
“‘That he may behold’: Constructing Presence through Sight in Ancient Egyptian Art”
Respondent: Roko Rumora, PhD Student, Art History
December 9
Sizhao Yi, PhD Student, Art History
“A Material Metaphor: Reading Crackle-Glazed Porcelain in Chen Hongshou’s Paintings”
Respondent: Meng Zhao, PhD Candidate, Art History
WINTER 2021
December 28 (Monday)
Nancy Lin, PhD Candidate, Art History
Maggie Borowitz, PhD Candidate, Art History
Hanne Graversen, PhD Candidate, Art History
Max Koss, PhD, Art History, University of Chicago
Special CAA session
January 6
Brandon Sward, PhD Candidate, Sociology
“How to make site specific art when sites themselves have histories: Whittier Boulevard as Asco’s El Camino Real”*
Respondent: Adriana Obiols Roca, PhD Student, Art History
January 22 (Monday)
Dario Donetti, Collegiate Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Contemporary Architecture
“Migrating Inventions: Brunelleschi’s Dome and the East”
Respondent: Persis Berlekamp, Associate Professor of Art History and the College, Affiliated Faculty in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
February 3
Rowanne Dean, PhD Student, Art History
“Long-Memoried Images”: A Celtic Revival Shrine for the Irish Free State
Respondent: Luke Fidler, PhD Candidate, Art History
*Please note the unusual time.
February 15 (Monday): Special Event with the Division of Humanities & the Department of Visual Arts
Kodak Workshop: “Reconnecting Metadata: Race, Labor, and the Corporate Body through the History of the Eastman Kodak Company”
Heather Smith (Collegiate Assistant Professor, DoVA), Ali Feser (Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Science Core: Power, Identity and Resistance), Jason Lazarus (Artist), and Lucia Cantero (Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco)
SPRING 2021
Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor of Art History and the College and Interim Director of the Center for Latin American Studies
“How to narrate an interconnected Mesoamerican world”
*Please note the unusual date and time.
Wednesday, April 14
12- 1:30 pm*
Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, PhD Candidate, Art History
“Programmed intuition: Vera Molnar’s aesthetic experiments with the CRT screen”
Respondent: Stefanie Proksch-Weilguni, PhD Candidate, University of Basel and Vienna, Art History
*Please note the unusual date and time.
*Paper will be pre-circulated one week in advance.
Wednesday, April 28 (Co-Sponsored with Rhetoric and Poetics)
4:45-6:15pm
Roko Rumora, PhD Candidate, Art History
“Putting Down Memories: Roman Mnemonics and Statue Display in Quintilian, Cicero and the Rhetorica ad Herennium”
Respondent: Seth Estrin, Assistant Professor of Art History and the College Ancient Greek Art and Archaeology
Wednesday, May 12 (Art History QP Symposium)
Co-Sponsored with VMPEA
4:30-6:30pm
Jenny Harris, PhD Student, Art History
“Worlds of Wore: Ruth Asawa’s Sculpture”
Li Jiang, PhD Student, Art History
“Replicating Death: The Gold Funerary Mask of Princess of the State of Chen (1018)”
Stephanie Strother, PhD Student, Art History
“ ‘Fashionable Things’: The Designs and Designers of the Atelier Martine”
Wednesday, May 19 (Art History QP Symposium)
Co-Sponsored with VMPEA
4:30-6:30pm
Lex Ladge, PhD Student, Art History
“Hieronian Impositions: Space and Policy in 3rd Century BCE Syracuse”
Adriana Obiols Roca, PhD Student, Art History
“Mesótica II: Central American Art After ‘Latin America’”
Lucien Sun, PhD Student, Art History
“A Print in Flux: Rethinking the Print of Guan Yu from Khara-Khoto”
Wednesday, May 26
4:45-6:30pm
Kirk Nickel, Assistant Curator of European Paintings, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
“Moses and the Limits of Papal Vision: The Case for Conciliarism as Pictured in Renaissance Brescia”
Respondent: Christine Zappella, PhD Candidate, Art History