Meghan Strong, Adjunct Asst. Professor in Classics, will serve as guest curator for a new installation of the Islamic Art gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The long-term installation, which is set to open in early 2021, will focus on the breadth and diversity of Islamic artistic traditions. In...
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If you would like to attend, please email Reed O'Mara (rao44@case.edu) or click here to register.
Big congratulations to Reed O'Mara, whose paper "The Monstrous Script: Instances of Pseudo-Hebrew in Fifteenth-Century German Prints" has been accepted into the Medieval Academy of America's annual conference, to be held in April of 2021. Reed's paper developed during Professor Elina Gertsman's course Medieval Matters: The Monstrous, the Macabre,...
Scent and Sense: Olfaction and Memory in Medieval Material Culture (sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art)
Although we are used to thinking that the sense of sight reigned supreme in the Middle Ages, medieval scholars of all stripes were quite obsessively preoccupied with questions of olfaction. This session will explore the multivalent relationships between objects, smells, and memory, especially as they existed in the later Middle Ages.
Abstracts, one page in length, should be sent to Elina Gertsman (exg152@case.edu) by 10.15, 2020
Recently, The New Yorker published a highly problematic piece by Lawrence Wright, “How Pandemics Wreak Havoc and Open Minds.” Medievalists around the country responded to the article in a series of open letters. Click “Learn more” for one such open letter sent to the magazine by Prof. Elina Gertsman and her colleague at California State University, Prof. Asa Simon Mittman.
Congratulations to Professor Maggie Popkin who has been awarded the Rome Prize, which involves residence at the American Academy in Rome! Professor Popkin's project is titled "Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome," and her description is as follows:
"My project investigates souvenirs from the Roman Empire commemorating...
Professor Maggie Popkin will be giving an online lecture on "The Mysteries of Samothrace: American Excavations in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods" on Tuesday, July 28, 1:30 pm, as part of the Siegal Center's Classical Archaeology Series. Professor Popkin will present the most up-to-date archaeological research in the Sanctuary of...
Professor Elizabeth Bolman was recently interviewed about the removal of statues of historical figures. Watch the interview here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Xo7G0qXuA
Tim Shuckerow, who has led the studio and art education part of our department for over 30 years, will be retiring at the end of the summer. As part of his last semester, he hosted a spectacular exhibition of work by African-American alumni, and also exhibited his collection of...
Congratulations to Kylie Fisher who has been invited to submit an essay about the history of printmaking in Europe, ca. 1400-1800 to Smarthistory. Smarthistory is the most-visited, open-access art history resource in the world. It is the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org, and supports AP art history and A-level...
Elizabeth S. Bolman published an article for the Wall Street Journal's Masterpiece series (June 5, 2020), on her work at the Red Monastery Church, in Upper Egypt. She founded and directed a twenty-year project to conserve, clean, document, study and publish this late fifth-century monastic church. Read the article here.
Congratulations to Reed, whose peer-reviewed article, “‘On Golden Tablets’: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Manuscript as a Self-Referential Icon,” was just published in Religions, as part of the Special Issue Seeing and Reading: Art and Literature in Pre-Modern Indian Religions, guest-edited by Phyllis Granoff and Sonya Rhie Mace. Read it here: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/6/274/pdf