Professor Andrea Rager will be offering ARTH 274 Nineteenth-Century European Art as a may session course this year. The course will take place on May 15-June 2 (M-F 12-2:30) and will be offered remotely with synchronous and asynchronous components, M-F 12-2:30. Registration for the summer session opens on April...
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Listen here for the latest podcast to delve into Elina Gertsman's and Barbara Rosenwein's The Middle Ages in 50 Objects, which explores material culture from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds through the artefacts in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The podcast was put together by the Medieval History division of the...
Congratulations to Dr. Angie Verduci, who defended her fantastic dissertation on late medieval Triumph of Death murals with great enthusiasm and aplomb! Her committee members (Professor Elina Gertsman, Professor Elizabeth S. Bolman, Dr. Gerhard Lutz, and Professor David Rothenberg) were extremely impressed with the superb quality of this dissertation,...
For the second year in a row, graduate medievalists stole the show at the MAA's annual meeting, earning themselves, to borrow from the meeting's attendees, "a legendary status." On Friday, March 24, as Professor Gertsman was being given the award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies, signs and pompoms...
Congratulations to HILLS Post-Doctoral Fellow, Nicolas Savard, on the publication of their article "Do We Get More Points if We Take Bigger Risks? Modeling Boundary-Setting in Devised Performance with Undergraduate Actors" in the Journal of Consent-Based Performance. The article is available open-access here: https://www.journalcbp.com/v2i1p61-86. Nicolas Savard is one of just three post-doctoral...
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Benay, who has been named Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities by the Provost's Office. This inaugural honor recognizes Professor Benay's contributions to the field and to the university in working to achieve "greater social impact" through disciplinary ingenuity and community collaboration. As part of her appointment, Prof....
Professor Gertsman was nominated for the teaching award, Professor Rager for the mentoring award, and Professor Bolman for both. Diekhoff Awards are given to faculty members who make exemplary contributions to the education and development of graduate students at Case Western Reserve University. Professor Rager won the teaching award...
In their co-authored study "Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow: Maksim Grek's Letter and its Afterlife," The Russian Review (April 2023), Justin Willson and Ashley Morse bring to light a new primary source which explains why copies of Jerusalem's monuments were rare in the East Slavic world. This article will be published open access...
Please join us for Olszewski lecture on Wednesday, March 29, at 5 pm! The talk entitled "Monumental Absence: Augusta Savage’s Unbuilt Monuments" will be given by Dr. Tess Korobkin (University of Maryland, College Park).
Between 1931 and 1943, Harlem-based sculptor Augusta Savage proposed four monuments to honor Black American lives, but...
Please join us at 4:30 on Thursday, February 16, at the Baker-Nord Center (Clark Hall Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Road), for the Graduate Work-in-Progress talk by Reed O’Mara, “Idol Viewing and Idle Viewing: Exploring Erasures in the Munich Rashi.” Reed will discuss one of the earliest extant illuminated Hebrew manuscripts from Europe, the so-called Munich Rashi, copied in Germany in the 1230s for a wealthy Jewish patron. The commentary has an incomplete image cycle and several of its surviving paintings have been partially erased. In her lecture, Reed will consider the manuscript’s images in dialogue, addressing the way that the erasures wrought upon these images may have affected medieval viewers, and their perception of both the divine and images of the divine.
CONGRATULATIONS to Art History and History major DavidPatrick Ryan, who has been awarded a prestigious micro-internship with the The Cleveland Orchestra! DavidPatrick will be working alongside The Cleveland Orchestra's Director of Strategic Initiatives, Chris Abi-Nassif, in order to gain a better understanding of how arts institutions and non-profits are...
Join the Graduate Association of Medieval Studies for a courtly love themed Reading Circle this Friday, February 10 at 7pm at Bottlehouse Brewing on Lee Road! All are welcome to attend. Bring an excerpt from a medieval source (or a source with medievalism!) to share and discuss with the...