Month: January 2019
Jeffrey West Kirkwood at the NYU Center for the Humanities
Tom McDonough to speak at “Anni Albers and the Modernist Textile”
Associate Professor Tom McDonough will speak on knots and tectonics as part of a two-day conference on “Anni Albers and the Modernist Textile” at University College London, 26-27 January 2019, organized by Briony Fer in conjunction with her retrospective of Albers’s work on view at Tate Modern. For more information, see https://www.annialbersmodernisttextile.com/.
Nancy Um speaks at the University of Washington
Cup, porcelain, made in Jingdezhen, 1662-1722, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
On January 24, 2019, Nancy Um will deliver a lecture entitled “Wrinkles in the Global Narrative of Porcelain – Coffee Cups in the Red Sea” as part of the series “Rethinking the Global Turn” at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. On January 25, she will lead a workshop on data visualization, also hosted by the Simpson Center.
More information: https://simpsoncenter.org/projects/rethinking-global-turn
Nancy Um publishes an article in West 86th
Nancy Um’s article, “Nested Containers for Maritime Journeys: Tools of Aromatic Diplomacy around the Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Indian Ocean,” recently appeared in West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 25:2 (Fall/Winter 2018): 199-223.
Binghamton Art History 