Please join us for the Digital Humanities Showcase on November 21, at 1 pm, for a presentation/discussion of Prof. Elina Gertsman’s Immersive Realms project, followed by the AnyBook Experience project helmed by Sabina Zonno and Lynn Dodd at USC! As part of the celebrations for the MAA’s Centennial Year, the Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Committee and the Graduate Student Committee have partnered to organize a year-long series of webinars showcasing exciting DH projects. Register here or use the QR code on the flyer.
Congratulations to Anna Farber, a first-year MA student in medieval art, who presented her paper “Issues of Blood: Profuse Menstruation in Medieval Art” at the SECAC’s annual conference, held this year in Cincinnati. The session, “Tidal Flux: The Representation of Menstrual Periods in Art,” featured both art historians and practicing artists who examined menstruation’s often-unexplored impact on the visual record. While at the conference, Anna had the opportunity to visit several Cincinnati arts institutions, including the Cincinnati Museum of Art, and meet colleagues from all over the world to discuss common issues facing our field. We look forward to Anna’s paper at the Cleveland Symposium this Friday!
Congratulations to Claudia Haines, third-year PhD student in medieval art, who recently traveled to London to present her paper “Suffering and Salvation: The ‘Wound Man’ Iconography in Late Medieval Medical Manuscripts” at the international symposium “‘As stiffe twin compasses’: Allegory and Sciences, 1300–1700,” held at the Warburg Institute on October 24–25. The two-day event brought together scholars from across Europe and North America to explore how allegorical modes shaped—and were shaped by—the emerging disciplines of natural philosophy, astronomy, medicine, and early modern science. During her trip, Claudia had a chance to see several exhibitions of medieval medical manuscripts, the potential focus of her dissertation.
Congratulations to Cecily Hughes, fourth-year PhD candidate in medieval art, who traversed Scandinavia over the past few months to present at two international conferences and conduct dissertation research. In Reykjavik, Iceland, Cecily attended the 31st Congress of Nordic Historians where she delivered her paper “A Place to Shine: Darkness and Light in a Medieval Swedish Sacrament Niche.” Crossing the Baltic Sea to Helsinki, Finland, Cecily discussed “The Measure of a Saint: Size, Movement, and Meaning in St. Olaf Pilgrim Badges,” at the 14th triennial NORDIK Conference of Art History in the Nordic Countries. On the Swedish island of Gotland, Cecily visited twenty-two medieval churches, documenting their vivid wall paintings, art objects, and architecture.
Please join us on November 19 for what promises to be a fantastic lecture to be delivered by Margaret Graves, Adrienne Minassian Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Brown. Titled “Islamic Ceramics and Other Fictions of Capital,” the lecture explores the fictionalized objects of Islamic ceramics collecting that suture together multiple temporalities with skill and ingenuity, creating new objects of delight for elite collectors and asking us to think again about what we value most in the artifacts of the medieval past. The lecture will be of interest to academics, museum professionals, and collectors, so please spread the word!