On December 2, Kimberly Cassibry (Associate Professor of Art, Wellesley College) will present "A Colonial Monument: Remembering an Ancient Triumphal Arch in France."
December 2, 5 pm
Tinkham Veale Center, Ballroom A
Current debates about imperialism, commemoration,CWRU_JuliusFund_103022 and cultural heritage have profound implications for ancient art history. This talk focuses on a...
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Congratulations to Angie Verduci who has been selected to participate in the 2023 Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library! Angie will present her paper, "Reading Mors Triumphans as An Allegory of Plague," in the Affect, Emotion, Matter session. The hybrid conference will involve two parts:...
The CWRU Graduate Association of Medieval Studies was established only last year, but it has quickly become an excellent place for bringing together medievalists from departments across the university. Led by graduate students in both the Departments of Art History & Art and Music, the group has already hosted five...
We are delighted to announce the publication of "Narration / Abstraction," a conversation between specialists in medieval and contemporary art that features Professor Elina Gertsman alongside Yve-Alain Bois (Princeton), Manuel Fontán del Junco (Fundación Juan March), and Aden Kumler (Universität Basel), prefaced by Vincent Debiais (EHESS). The piece appeared...
This week, PhD students Reed and Sam participated in the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies seminar “Uncovering Medieval Manuscripts in Early Modern Books.” The two were able to handle and examine fragments, leaves, codices, and bindings from the 800s through the 1600s held in the Newberry’s collection.
This Friday, 14 October at 7pm at BottleHouse Brewing, GAMS will host the first Reading Circle of the semester! Bring an excerpt from a medieval source (or a source with medievalism!) to share with the group. You do not have to be 21 years old to attend the Reading Circle.
Congratulations to Clara Pinchbeck and Mahamad Salah Mahmoud who won the 2022 Ignite Presentation hosted by CWRU's College of Arts and Sciences Expanding Horizons Initiative (EHI)! The pair were awarded funds for future research after presenting results from the multi-year Digital Art History Collaboration between the Department of Art...
On Friday, September 30, Reed O’Mara presented a paper on the Golden Haggadah at the VI Forum Kunst des Mittelalters in Frankfurt, in the session organized by Professor Gertsman and sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art. Speakers came from Austria, Israel, and the US to discuss the intertwinement of olfaction and memory in medieval material culture. The joint program was also represented by Dr. Lutz who organized a session on the Cleveland’s Table Fountain.
Join us for the Julius Fund Lecture in Early Modern Art! Patricia Zalamea (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) will give a talk entitled “Humanist Cultures and Artistic Exchange in Colonial Latin America.”
WHEN: November 2, 5 pm
WHERE: Ballroom A, Tinkham Veale
What did it mean to be a humanist in colonial...
Last Friday GAMS hosted a close-looking session of medieval and nineteenth-century fragments, prints, and manuscripts in the special collections of Kelvin Smith Library! Head of Special Collections Bill Claspy led students on a tour of books of hours, missals, and works of poetry and music.
Professor Gertsman kicked off her lecture series this year by delivering the 2nd Annual Forsyth Distinguished Lecture at the University of Michigan on September 16. It was an honor to be part of this extraordinary series -- and a distinct pleasure to meet with the Department of Art History'...
A 66-foot-tall banner with an image of Frederick Douglass and his statement from the commencement address to the campus has been recently installed on Case Western Reserve University’s Triangle Building. The statement reads: “The relation subsisting between the white and black people of this country is the vital question...