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...
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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...
Congratulations to PhD students Cecily Hughes and Reed O'Mara for being accepted to From “Fuzzy” to “Eclectic” and Everything in Between: Intercultural Encounters in the Pre-Modern World conference at Yale University that will take place this April. Cecily will present “Overpowering Dragons, or Putting Paganism in its Place,” the paper she...
CONGRATULATIONS to Art History undergraduate, Winston Kam, who has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious University of Alabama Graduate Student Art History Symposium. The symposium is usually closed to undergraduates, but Winston is among the selected exceptions who will present their work in a poster session. His poster is...
Congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman for receiving the 2023 Medieval Academy's Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies. This national award recognizes outstanding pedagogical achievement in teaching inspiring courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Professor Gertsman was nominated by her students; we are grateful to them for their...
This January, Cecily Hughes, first-year PhD student in medieval art, was able to experience Brought to Life: Painted Wood Sculpture from Europe, 1300–1700 (at SCMA from September 16, 2022–August 6, 2023). She spent the summer of 2021 contributing to the exhibition as a curatorial intern to Danielle Carrabino. The...
Third-year PhD student in medieval art Reed O'Mara has just been named one of the 2023 recipients of the Rare Book School's William T. Buice III Scholarship. The scholarship was created in honor of Bill Buice, a former member of the Rare Book School Board of Directors (Chairman 2008-2014)....