Please join us tomorrow, October 30th at 4:00pm CDT for PhD Student Katie Gallman’s presentation of her 2020 Schewe Award paper “Bioscleave Versus Biology: Seeking the Utopia of Immortality in Architecture.” You can join the …
Year: 2020
TODAY! “Medieval Studies Perspectives on Contemporary Racism and Cultural Encounter”
Prof. Thomas Dale’s Diversity Forum 2020 session “Medieval Studies Perspectives on Contemporary Racism and Cultural Encounter” is taking place today, Oct. 28th at 10:45am. You can register for the Diversity Forum 2020 here: https://diversity.wisc.edu/event/diversity-forum-2020/
Student Spotlight: Claire Kilgore (PhD Student) & Tania Kolarik (PhD Candidate) Publish Book Reviews
The 51st volume of Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, published this October, contains book reviews by Claire Kilgore (PhD Student) and Tania Kolarik (PhD Candidate). Kilgore reviewed Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis’ book The Care of Nuns: The Ministries of …
A Big Thank You to All of Our Fill the Hill 2020 Donors!
Thank you so much to all of our Fill the Hill 2020 donors! We raised $2780 that will benefit our students in this very unusual time. We can’t wait for you to hear all of …
Fill the Hill 2020: Consider Donating to the Department of Art History!
It’s Fill the Hill! Consider donating to the Department of Art History! The campaign closes THIS Friday, October 23rd at 6:00pm CDT. You can donate to Art History here. You can even get some real …
Workshop: AH Alum Ray Hernández-Durán “Ni de aquí, ni de allá’ (‘Neither from here nor there’)
After Art History Alum Prof. Ray Hernández-Durán’s lecture on Thursday, October 22nd, he will host a virtual workshop titled “‘Ni de aquí, ni de allá’ (‘Neither from here nor there’): Current Issues in the Project …
Art History Lecture: Ray Hernández-Durán “Catholics, Conservatives, and the Academy of San Carlos”
We are so excited to be welcoming Prof. Ray Hernández-Durán back to Madison! Prof. Hernández-Durán completed his Master of Arts in Art History at UW–Madison in 1994, where he worked with Prof. Emeritus Henry Drewal …
TOMORROW: “Far From Jerusalem” Lecture by Prof. Asa Mittman at 5pm CST
Art Historian Prof. Asa Mittman will be presenting his lecture “Far From Jerusalem: The Exclusion of Jews on Christian Maps.” Medieval Christian maps use principles of inclusion and exclusion to generate fictions of collective identity. …
Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Özlem Eren Publishes Case Study in “The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages”
Ph.D. Student Özlem Eren has published a case study about the Russian triptych with the Mandylion (1637), currently located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in the Bloomsbury Medieval Studies’ The …
TOMORROW: Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Series with Prof. Bess Williamson
TOMORROW: Join us for the latest lecture in the Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Series with Prof. Bess Williamson. Please email Prof. Jennifer Pruitt at jpruitt@wisc.edu for the Zoom link. We can’t wait to …