Congratulations to Zohreh Soltani (PhD 2020), who has been appointed Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies in the Department of Art History at Ithaca College!
Month: May 2020
Undergraduate Activities: Congratulations to our 2020 graduates!
Art History faculty, students, and families celebrate the graduates with a Zoom toast on May 17, 2020.
The Art History department congratulates this year’s graduating BA students!
Alyssa Abesamis
Denilson Alvarez
Jess Brody
Nathan Goldberg
Aliza Hornblass
Emily Jelen
Nikhil Jani
Veronica Liszewski
Claire McLagan
Thomas Pellegrino
Caelum Rogers
Kelly Ryan
John James Santiago
Tom McDonough contributes to catalogue on radical architecture
Tom McDonough’s essay “Science Fictions of Architecture” has appeared in Cloud ’68, the catalogue of an exhibition of radical architecture held in 2018 at the ETH in Zürich. Read more about it here: https://verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/publications/cloud-68.
Jeffrey Kirkwood selected as a fellow at the Cornell University Society for the Humanities for 2020-21
Dissertation defense: Hyeok Cho
Lee Bul, Mon grand récit—Weep into stones …, 2005.
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
Dissertation defense
Hyeok Cho, PhD candidate
“Can the Subaltern Artist Speak? Postmodernist Theory, Feminist Practice, and the Art of Lee Bul”
Committee members: John Tagg (advisor), Kevin Hatch, Tom McDonough, Sonja Kim (Asian and Asian American Studies; outside examiner)
Thursday, May 7 at 9:00 a.m. by Zoom
This defense is open to the public, however a password is required to attend. The password will circulate in a separate email to department faculty and graduate students, but may also be requested directly from John Tagg or Hyeok Cho.
Nancy Um in Manuscript Studies
Nancy Um’s new article, “Yemeni Manuscripts Online: Digitization in an Age of War and Loss,” has been published in Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 5.1 (Spring 2020): 1-44. It is available on Project Muse (free until June 30): https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/42257. The article’s digital component is available at: http://bit.ly/YMDIbytheNumbers
Abstract: In 2013, a corpus of manuscripts from Yemen became openly accessible to the public through the Princeton University Digital Library portal. Numbering around 250 codices, most were digitized and cataloged from three private collections held in Yemen, under the auspices of the Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative (YMDI), a scholarly network that was underpinned by institutional support from the Princeton University Library and Freie Universität Berlin. This article delves into the YMDI project, as a significant case study, with the goal of considering how this group of digital surrogates functions as an online collection, rather than viewing the Princeton portal as a transparent access point for these manuscripts or examining any of the YMDI volumes or their contents individually. Mass digitization projects are often sketched as efforts of “salvage,” focusing on issues of both preservation and accessibility. By contrast, here, it is asserted that the meaning and significance of these manuscripts have not been sustained through the act of digitization, but rather transformed, particularly amidst Yemen’s current unstable political situation. It is hoped that this article will provide a critical backdrop to the YMDI collection, by situating the cultural act of digitization historically, thereby helping users to understand these collections more substantively and inspiring us to think critically about how and why we digitize historic manuscripts in a precarious contemporary world.
Binghamton Art History 