CWRU Art History Club invites undergraduate students to join the Caption Contest at the CMA! The contest will be run on Saturday, September 18th at 2:00 pm.
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Please see below a call for papers for the 21st Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies. The conference will take place at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio from March 24th–26th, 2022. Vagantes is an interdisciplinary community of junior scholars that offers an...
Graduate Art History Association (GAHA) welcomes all new and returning students and invites everyone to join exciting events this month: a welcome picnic, lectures, and roundtable discussions!
More information and registration details can be found HERE.
Friday, 24 September 2021 at 10am ET, online event.
Register HERE
The 7th-century arrival of Nestorian Christianity, the Syriac form of Christianity also known as Church of the East, is recorded on the famous Nestorian stele erected in Xian in 781CE. Despite subsequent repressions, the religion continued to be practiced and, by...
Throughout the Middle Ages, the pious Christian was constantly preoccupied with both the death of the earthly body and the subsequent survival of the soul. The fear of dying suddenly without repenting and confessing engendered images of death and the afterlife. Speakers in this session are encouraged to investigate late medieval representations of death as both an earthly and otherworldly matter. We welcome papers that explore the flourishing of these imageries especially in rural and marginal areas, which were extremely receptive to cultural exchanges, but which have not received proper scholarly investigation yet.
Organizer: Angelica Verduci, axv270@case.edu
Big congrats to Marina who passed her doctoral exams with flying colors! Marina will be spending next year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece on the prestigious M. Alison Frantz Fellowship in Post-Classical Studies at the Gennadius Library. There, she will begin work on her...
The Erie Art Museum show is going on right now! Visit from August 6 – February 6.
Join us August 23-28 for the CLEVELAND WALLS! International mural program, which includes free family-friendly activities, performances and artist talks, in addition to 20 public murals that will be created during the event. CWRU students Jessica Long and Lauryn Smith worked throughout summer on the week-long public art festival as part of the Keithley Fellowship in Community Engaged Art History with LAND studio.
Congratulations to Angie Verduci and Russell Green whose papers have been accepted to the Medieval Association of the Midwest’s Conference! The conference, Beneficence in the Medieval World, will be held on Zoom October 29-30, 2021. Angie's paper, entitled "Merciful Mary, Merciless Death: Late Medieval Depictions of Madonna della Misericordia...
When she was younger, Lauryn Smith used to get into spirited debates with her grandfather over Martin Luther and other topics relating to the Protestant Reformation. It’s very fitting that she now specializes in that time period.
Please visit The Daily to read more about Lauryn Smith.
Congratulations to our recent alumna Nikki DeLuca (PhD 2020) who received a book contract with the Brill series Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe! Nikki's work focuses on images of shadows in later medieval illuminated manuscripts, and explores them in their theological, lietrary, scientific, and mythological...
Congratulations to Prof. Gertsman for publishing her third book this year! -- this one, a co-edited volume in the Tributes series for Harvey Miller / Brepols, collects essays on interdisciplinary research in medieval art.