On Wednesday, October 26, Art History doctoral candidate Pei-chun Viola Hsieh delivered the lecture “Spheres of Indeterminacy: Tactile Politics in Wang Te-yu’s Inflatable Art” at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at Binghamton University. Viola is a Doctoral Fellow at IASH this semester.
PRE-MODERN ART HISTORY: NEW APPROACHES LECTURE SERIES
presents
KATHERINE M. REINHART
Honorary Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison
FRIDAY 25 MARCH
4:00 PM
“SINCERE HANDS AND FAITHFUL EYES? ART, SCIENCE, AND THE DEMANDS OF EMPIRE”
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PRE-MODERN ART HISTORY: NEW APPROACHES LECTURE SERIES
presents
ALEXIS WANG
PhD candidate, Art History, Columbia University
WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH
10:00 AM
“THE EMBEDDED IMAGE IN MEDIEVAL ITALY”
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Binghamton University Art Museum presents an artist’s talk and panel discussion with Nathaniel Stern in conjunction with the current exhibition The World After Us: Imaging Techno-Aesthetic Futures, on Thursday March 10 at 6:00 PM at the art museum in the fine arts building.
PRE-MODERN ART HISTORY: NEW APPROACHES LECTURE SERIES
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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”
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Tom McDonough, Associate Professor of Art History, introduces two short films made by American artists Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson in 1970 which radically reimagine the representation of the Western landscape. This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Topographies: Changing Conceptions of the American Landscape at the Binghamton University Art Museum and will take place on Monday, November 15 in Lecture Hall 6 at 8:00 PM.
Thomas McDonough, a Fall 2021 Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Faculty Fellow, will be presenting “Space Doctor: Theaster Gates and the art of urban healing” on Wednesday, November 10 at noon in the IASH conference room (LN 1106).
This Wednesday, Julia Walker will participate in a roundtable discussion with undergraduate and graduate students, as well as other Binghamton faculty members from across disciplines. Organized by the Undergraduate Research Center, this event aims to highlight issues of equity and inclusion for women in research. More information can be found here.
Professor Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh will speak at the Binghamton University Art Museum on Monday, September 9, 2019 at 4 pm. Her talk is entitled, “The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice,” and draws from her recent book about the Zey’tun Gospels. Art history, histories of genocide, cultural heritage, and the questions of the continuity of the medieval and the modern intersect in the biography of this medieval Armenian Gospels manuscript. Eight of its illuminated pages were discovered in the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2010, prompting a lawsuit. The tale of the separation of the pages from the manuscript tells a story of genocide and survival, and makes the case for a human right to art. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. She researches the visual cultures of the Middle East, including issues of architectural preservation, museums, and cultural heritage.
L-R: Emily Greenberg, Annemarie Maag-Tanchak, and Erin Livingston celebrate at commencement.
The Art History department congratulates this year’s graduating BA students!
Olivia Baerga
Marisa Davila
Jennifer Dioguardi
Emma Fishbein
Emily Greenberg
Erin Livingston (honors)
Annemarie Maag-Tanchak
Keara McAdams
Lauren Rachel Poretsky
Thomas Rice
Sabrina Soffer
Associate Professor Alicia Wilcox Walker (History of Art, Bryn Mawr College) will deliver the 2019 Ferber Lecture as part of the Spring 2019 VizCult Dean’s Speaker Series, 5:00 PM on Wednesday 13 March in FA 143. Entitled “Erotic Images, Christian Eyes: Seeing with the Body and Soul in Byzantium,” her talk explores how the Greco-Roman tradition contributed in meaningful ways to Byzantine paradigms of female behavior, self-understanding, and comportment. Female characters of antique myth and epic remained relevant in the Byzantine world because they provided compelling models for how corporeal beauty and sexual allure might be advantageously deployed, as well as cautionary examples of how people who engaged with these powerful forces might be corrupted. Her paper explores how Byzantine women’s bodies were put in dialogue with visual and textual portrayals of pagan goddesses and heroines, and how these practices changed in fundamental ways from the early to middle Byzantine eras.
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