Click here to read the new issue of the university art/sci magazine, which features an article on Prof. Gertsman’s Guggenheim Fellowship and includes a woodcut created by Ben and Reed in her honor!
Join us for a CV workshop with Prof. Gertsman on December 11 at 1:30 EST! Come for advice, stay for destructive fun! Click on “Learn more” for the Zoom link.
All six lectures / discussions drawn from medieval Jewish art seminar have been uploaded here, and are available to anyone with the CWRU email account. Please note that we were treated to two lectures by Prof. Diane Wolfthal: one on late medieval Yiddish manuscripts and another on the lives and afterlives of the Houston Mahzor!
We had a fantastic crowd of attendees for Robert Mills’s Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art! If you missed it, you can watch it here by clicking on “Learn More.”
Scent and Sense: Olfaction and Memory in Medieval Material Culture (sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art)
Although we are used to thinking that the sense of sight reigned supreme in the Middle Ages, medieval scholars of all stripes were quite obsessively preoccupied with questions of olfaction. This session will explore the multivalent relationships between objects, smells, and memory, especially as they existed in the later Middle Ages.
Abstracts, one page in length, should be sent to Elina Gertsman (exg152@case.edu) by 10.15, 2020
Congratulations to Reed, whose peer-reviewed article, “‘On Golden Tablets’: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Manuscript as a Self-Referential Icon,” was just published in Religions, as part of the Special Issue Seeing and Reading: Art and Literature in Pre-Modern Indian Religions, guest-edited by Phyllis Granoff and Sonya Rhie Mace. Read it here: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/6/274/pdf
Huge congratulations to Angie Verduci for receiving the ICMA Student Travel Grant, which will support research for her dissertation on Northern Italian “Triumph of Death” imagery. Only three such awards are annually given.