Congratulations to PhD Candidates LauraLee Brott and Mateusz Ferens who were both awarded the Lemoine-Midelfort Fellowship to support their dissertation research travel. LauraLee Brott will use the funding to consult manuscripts containing medieval maps of …
Month: January 2020
CAA 2020 Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jessica Cooley
PhD Candidate Jessica Cooley will be presenting her paper “Access Intimacy at The Barnes Foundation” Friday, February 14th, at 8:30 am as part of 108th College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago. Her paper is …
Student Spotlight: PhD Students Claire Kilgore and Tania Kolarik at the Newberry Library in Chicago
PhD Students Claire Kilgore and Tania Kolarik both attended the Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at the Newberry Library in Chicago on January 23rd–25th, 2020. Claire presented her paper “Windowed Wombs: Holy Pregnancies Revealed” and Tania …
CAA 2020 Spotlight: Prof. Jill Casid
Professor Jill H. Casid to present new work on “Death as Medium” at College Art Association Conference New Media Caucus panel on “Mediated Reenactments and the Post-Photographic Moment” with Niharika Dinkar, Shawn Michelle Smith, and …
Faculty News: Prof. Jennifer Nelson at History of Science Brown Bag
Prof. Jennifer Nelson will give her talk “Keeping the Basilisk Rolling: A War Machine in the Holzschuher Testament of 1558” during the History of Science Brown Bag this Friday, January 24th at 12:00pm.
Faculty Artwork featured in Chazen Show!
Please join Professor Jill Casid and Professor Anna Campbell for the opening event for the Chazen Museum of Art’s Faculty Exhibition 2020 on the evening of January 31, 2020. Both Prof. Casid and Prof. Campbell …
Save the Date! Feb. 11th–Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Series
Save the Date for the UW-Madison Department of Art History’s First Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Series on February 11th, 2020. Professor Shira Brisman (University of Pennsylvania History of Art Department) will be returning to …
Faculty News: Prof. Jennifer Pruitt’s New Book “Building the Caliphate”
Today (Jan. 16), Professor Jennifer Pruitt received the first copies of her new book Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture, which is being published by Yale University Press. The …
Faculty News: Book Party at CAA–Prof. Jennifer Nelson & Prof. Alex Dika Seggerman
If you will be at the College Art Association’s Annual Conference or in Chicago, you are invited to a book party celebrating two new books in modern and early modern art history: Alex Dika Seggerman‘s path-breaking Modernism …
Alumni Update: Berit Ness (M.A. 2015)
UW-Madison Alumna Berit Ness (right), Assistant Curator for Academic Initiative at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, and her colleague Issa Lampe recently partnered with the College Art Association on a piece for their RAAMP Video Practicum series. …