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...
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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 next week for a virtual event hosted by the William Morris Society of the US and the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians, featuring Andrea Rager, in conversation with John Holmes, discussing their new books!
Book Event: New Books on 19th-Century Interiors
Friday, February 24, 1:00 pm...
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...
HUGE Congratulations to MA candidate Emma Lazerson, whose essay "Performance and Imitation: Sofonisba Anguissola's Self Portrait with Madonna and Child," has been accepted for publication in Sequitur, the graduate journal of Boston University! Emma's article articulates the complex modes of self-representation and artistic emulation at play in the work of one of...
CONGRATULATIONS to Art History undergraduate Vivian Lewis, who received one of the prestigious Humanities@Work Micro-Internships at the Western Reserve Historical Society! Thanks to the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Vivian will put her humanistic training to work in the amazing archives and museum of the WRHS this semester.
Please join us for three mini-talks and a conversation on medieval art and race, sponsored by the Department of Art history and Art and moderated by Prof. Elina Gertsman.
February 2nd 6: 00 PM EST
Zoom
The conversation features three speakers:
Thomas Dale (Simona and Jerome Distinguished Chair of Art History, University of...