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The Department of Art History and Art and the Department of Music invite the campus community to the 21st Vagantes Conference!

The Department of Art History and Art and the Department of Music at CWRU invite the campus community to the 21st Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, taking place THIS WEEK! This in-person graduate student conference will take place Thursday, March 24, and Friday, March 25, at the Cleveland Museum...

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Huge congratulations to Dr. Bing Wang on the Defense of her Dissertation!

Huge congratulations to Dr. Bing Wang, who successfully defended her dissertation, “William Pryor Floyd: The Art and Business of Photography in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong”! It is an outstanding dissertation that represents a significant contribution to the field of nineteenth-century photography and the history of British Hong Kong. Bing extends...

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For She is a Jolly Good Fellow…

Grad students stole the show at Professor Elina Gertsman’s induction as a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Right after the breathtaking laudatio and at the solemn moment of inscription of her name in the Book of the Fellows, Prof. Gertsman turned around to see them in the audience, brandishing a glorious poster and an empty frame, to loud applause and raucous laughter. Thank you, Reed, Sam, Angie, and Marina for making this ceremony doubly unforgettable!

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HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Benay on the Publication of Her Third Book, Italy by Way of India: Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Benay, whose third book, Italy by Way of India: Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World has just been published! The research for this interdisciplinary, transcontinental study was supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute of Indian Studies....

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Students in Professor Erin Benay’s “Pressing Matters” Class Print Their Own Linocuts

Undergraduate and Graduate Students in Professor Erin Benay's Pressing Matters: Prints, Power, Revolution class print their own linocuts at the midtown nonprofit Zygote Press.  The class is working in partnership with Zygote Press and the CMA's new Community Arts Center to develop art-historically grounded, social-justice print projects for teens in the...

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Registration for the 21st Annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is Open! 

The conference will take place at the Tinkham Veale University Center and the Cleveland Museum of Art from March 24th to 26th. This year, the two keynote lectures will be given by Elina Gertsman (CWRU) and Daniel Smail (Harvard University). We are also excited to announce that, in addition to the regular conference events, there will be opportunities to attend a medieval music...

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