Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian contemporary artist and founder of the Savanah Center for Contemporary Art in Tamale, his hometown. He is represented by White Cube gallery in London His work has been, among other …
Year: 2019
Student Spotlight: PhD Student Kendra Greendeer’s co-curated Exhibition “Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas” Open Now!
Student Spotlight: PhD Student Kendra Greendeer has co-curated “Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas” at the Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery within the School of Human Ecology. This exhibition brings together textiles of several Indigenous groups …
The Middle Ages Today
Professor Jennifer Pruitt and Phd Student Ahmed Abdelazim will be participating in a special Humanities Now event. The topic is all about how – and why – the Middle Ages matter today. With public violence …
Shimon Attie: Stateless Views of Global
Public Lecture Thursday, September 26, 2019 Elvehjem Building, L150 5:00PM Workshop Friday, September 27, 2019 University Club, Room 212 Institute for Research in the Humanities Seminar Room 10:00AM – 12:00PM *To attend the workshop, please …
Undergraduates Receive the Iwanter Prize
Keqinhua Zhu, a recent UW-Madison graduate (B.S ’19, Art History and Conservation Biology), was awarded the $500 Iwanter Honorable Mention Prize from the Center for the Humanities for her senior honors thesis, “From Global to …
Professor Pruitt in UAE and Qatar
Professor Jennifer Pruitt traveled to the UAE and Qatar this spring in order to begin a new research project. Her research investigates the use of classical Islamic artistic forms in the creation of national identity …
Beyond Translation: PhD Student Headed To Smithsonian
PhD Candidate Kyungso Min’s research is featured by the Graduate School.
Kyungso Min at the Smithsonian
Ph.D. candidate Kyungso Min has been selected as a Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow for 2019-20. This prestigious fellowship provides Kyungso a year of residency at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and …
Noah Mapes at the Neville Public Museum
Congratulations to undergraduate Noah Mapes for accepting an internship with the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin! This summer Noah will work with members of the Neville’s curatorial and collections departments as the museum …