This year’s Whiting Fellows in the Humanities are Maeve Doyle (History of Art) and Johanna Best (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology). The Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art celebrated the recipients at its annual Whiting Fellows Presentation, October 21, 2014. The Fellows presented on their dissertation research and answered questions from a lively audience.
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Douglas Gisewhite presents at the American Chemistry Society, Central Regional Meeting
Douglas Gisewhite (Chemistry) presents the findings of research completed with fellow graduate student Ben Williams and Prof. Sharon Burgmayer at CERM 2014, held in Pittsburgh Oct. 29 – Nov. 1. The title of his talk is “Controlling Pyran Cyclization in Molybdenum Pyranopterin Dithiolene Complexes: It’s… Dielectric.”
Doug expects that the team will publish their results in the coming term.
BMC History of Art alumnae and current student present at the 5th Annual Feminist Art History Conference
The Feminist Art History Conference, sponsored by the art history department at American University, brings together scholars who engage in the diverse approaches of feminist art history. The fifth annual conference, which will be held at American University from October 31st to November 2nd, 2014, celebrates the legacy of emerita American University feminist art historians Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard.
Jamie Richardson (PhD candidate) will present her work in the afternoon on November 1st. Her talk, “The Transforming Femininity of Emblematic Curiosity,” derives from her dissertation research. Below is an allegorical representation of Curiosity from an early modern emblem book housed in Bryn Mawr College’s Special Collections, which Jamie discusses in her paper.
- Cesare Ripa and Giovanni Zaratino Castellini, “Curiositá.” From Iconologia Di Cesare Ripa: Divisa in Tre Libri, Ne I Quali Si Quali Si Esprimono Varie Imagini Di Virtù, Vitij, Affetti, Passioni Humane, Arti, Discipline, Humori, Elementi, Corpi Celesti, Prouincie D’Italia, Fiumi, & Altre Materie Infinite Vtili Ad Ogni Stato Di Persone. (Venice: C. Tomasini, 1645).
Also on Saturday afternoon, two History of Art alumnae will present papers in the session “Twentieth Century Feminist Icons: New Perspectives.” Mey‐Yen Moriuchi (MA ’08, PhD ’12) will present a paper entitled “Casta, Costumbrismo, Kahlo.” Rebecca Dubay (MA ’07, PhD ’11) will deliver “A Body That Falls: Mendieta’s Act of Remembrance.”
Prof. Lisa Saltzman (History of Art) delivers keynote address at UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium
Professor Lisa Saltzman will deliver the keynote address at the 48th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium. This year’s conference is on the the theme of “(re)mediation” and invites papers from graduate students exploring themes of remedy, reworking, or reuse as well as questions of artistic medium and attendant technology.
Professor Saltzman will present research from her new book about the “afterlife” of photography in contemporary culture, Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects, forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.
Lori Felton (PhD candidate, History of Art) publishes essay on Egon Schiele
A new exhibition of works by the famous Austrian artist Egon Schiele has just opened at the Neue Galerie in New York. “Egon Schiele: Portraits” is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the enigmatic and distinctive portraiture of the artist; it was organized by Schiele scholar Dr. Alessandra Comini.
Bryn Mawr PhD candidate Lori Felton penned an essay for the exhibition catalogue, entitled “Seeing the Self-Seers: The Viewer’s Role in Egon Schiele’s Early Double Self-Portraiture.”
The exhibition is on view now through January 19, 2015.