The Pre-Modern Art History: New Approaches Lecture Series will feature Zachary Stewart, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University on Wednesday March 2

PRE-MODERN ART HISTORY: NEW APPROACHES LECTURE SERIES

presents

ZACHARY STEWART

Assistant Professor, Architecture, Texas A&M University

WEDNESDAY 2 MARCH

10:00 AM

“PARISH, CHURCH, AND CHAPEL: COMPETITIVE ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND”

via Zoom click here to join

The Pre-Modern Art History: New Approaches Lecture Series features Catalina Ospina, Postgraduate Associate, Yale University on Friday February 25

PRE-MODERN ART HISTORY: NEW APPROACHES LECTURE SERIES

presents

CATALINA OSPINA

Postgraduate Associate, Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University

Friday 25 February

4:00 PM

“From Mouth to Hand: Indigenous Labor in the Colonial Northern Andes”

via Zoom, click here to join

The Pre-Modern Art History: New Approaches Lecture Series starts on Friday, February 18 with Matthew Gin, Visiting Professor, Northeastern University

PRE-MODERN ART HISTORY: NEW APPROACHES LECTURE SERIES

presents

MATTHEW GIN

Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, Architecture, Northeastern University

Friday 18 February

4:00 PM

“Paper Monuments: The Politics of Ephemeral Festival Architecture in Enlightenment France”

via Zoom, click here to join meeting

Next VizCult talk: Benjamin Anderson on Wednesday February 23

VizCult
The Art History Department Speaker Series
2022 Spring Semester

 presents

The Annual Ferber Lecture

 Benjamin Anderson, Associate Professor, Cornell University

“A Byzantine Oracle in Reformation Germany: Ein wunderliche Weissagung von dem Bapstum (1527)”

 February 23, 5:00 PM in LN 1106 (IASH Conference Room)

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Sun Yang Park at CAA 2022

Doctoral student Sun Yang Park will present at CAA 2022. Due to health and safety concerns and member feedback, all in-person sessions and activities scheduled for February 16-19 of CAA’s 110th Annual Conference in Chicago will now be virtual sessions on the same dates. The conference will take place through two live virtual components, the first from February 16-19 and the second from March 3-5. View the full program here:

https://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/conference2022

Sun Yang Park, Binghamton University

“Global Communication and Utopian Complicity between Art and Technology: Nam June Paik’s Participatory TV Art”

Sun Yang Park is also a chair for this session.

Session: New Media as an Embodiment of Resistance: Body, Technique, and Technology in East Asian Art since the 1960s

Thursday, February 17, 2022

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm (CST)

Via Zoom

Nancy Um Joins Getty Research Institute as Associate Director for Research & Knowledge Creation

Nancy Um, photograph and excerpt from the Getty Institute

Dr. Nancy Um has been appointed Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute (GRI).

In that role, Dr. Um will oversee the Research and Knowledge Creation division, which includes the celebrated Getty Scholars Program, research projects and academic outreach, the Getty Provenance Index, digital art history, and the Getty Vocabularies.

“We are delighted to welcome such a distinguished scholar and administrator to the GRI,” said Mary Miller, director of the GRI. “Nancy’s commitment to public education and her long track record in digital scholarship and DEAI work will be an enormous addition to the institute.”

Dr. Um is currently professor of art history and associate dean for faculty development and inclusion, Harpur College, Binghamton University (SUNY). She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College and her PhD from UCLA. She will take up her post at the GRI in July 2022.

For more click here.

Rotem Rozental Named Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center for Photography

Photo-historian, writer and curator Rotem Rozental (PhD 2019) is leaving her position as Chief Curator and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming at American Jewish University, where she also served as Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and the Director of The Institute for Jewish Creativity, in order to take up a new role as the Executive Director of the LA Center for Photography. Congratulations to Rotem! Her book, Pre State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement, is also in press with Routledge.