The Erie Art Museum show is going on right now! Visit from August 6 – February 6.
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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.
Congratulations to Prof. Gertsman whose newest book, The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books, was just published by Penn State Press! The book was made possible by the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and the Millard Meiss Publication Grant from the College Art Association as well as by support from her friends, colleagues, and students at CWRU and the CMA.
Congratulations to Alex Kaczenski and Sam Truman on passing their doctoral exams with flying colors! Alex and Sam were joined by the alumna Mia Hafer and the honorary medievalist Delilah for a little celebration in Prof. Gertsman's back yard.
At long last, the CMA is opened for small special tours, and the first such tour was offered by Dr. Gerhard Lutz to CWRU medievalists, who convened today at the Treasures from Münster Cathedral. The extraordinary collection of reliquaries is on display through 8/14/2022 and will form an integral part of the next course in the Global Middle Ages series, which will be co-taught by Prof. Gertsman and Dr. McCormick next spring.
Join us for the latest installment of the project Abstraction Before the Age of Abstract Art, jointly administered by the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Case Western Reserve University! The symposium on June 16th, organized and introduced by Prof. Elina Gertsman and her colleague at EHESS...
Celebrate the end of the spring semester with UCITE and engage with Glennan Fellows and Nord Grant recipients — including Prof. Gertsman who received the Nord grant for her innovative course on medieval Jewish art — to learn about their projects and how they are empowering people to learn. Our virtual Teaching & Learning Colloquium will take place Friday, May 14 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Register HERE for the event.
Congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman who will be the professeure invitée at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in 2022 and 2023! Each year, EHESS invites outstanding researchers from around the world to give talks and seminars in Paris within the framework of international scholarly...