Marie-Agathe Simonetti (Ph.D. Candidate) will present at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference on March 26, 2022, in Honolulu, Hawaii. AAS is the largest organization for Asian studies with 5,000 members worldwide. Her paper “Phan Châu Trinh’s …
Month: November 2021
Alumni Update: Sarah Scarlett (Ph.D.’15) Publishes First Book
Sarah Fayen Scarlett (Ph.D., 2015) has published Company Suburbs: Architecture, Power, and the Transformation of Michigan’s Mining Frontier with Univ. of Tennessee Press (2021). Sarah is Associate Professor of History at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI.
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | *NEW COURSE* AH 103: Seeing Through Conspiracies
*NEW COURSE* Professor Jennifer Nelson will teach AH 103 “Seeing Through Conspiracies” in Spring 2022 on Monday/Wednesday, 12:05–12:55pm, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140. Fake news is not a new problem. This class takes a trendy issue and moves …
Faculty News: Prof. Pruitt Gives Lecture TODAY!!!
Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be speaking (virtually) as part of Harvard University’s Aga Khan Program in Islamic Art and Architecture lecture series. The talk takes place TODAY, Thursday, November 18th at 5:00pm CST. She’d love …
Faculty News: Trans Visual Culture Conversation!
Join Professor Jill Casid in honoring the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Visual Culture and celebrating the recent themed issue on transgender art and visual culture studies. The event is Saturday 20th November 2021, …
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | AH 408: Global Modernism
This spring, Professor Daniel Spaulding will be teaching AH 408: “Global Modernism,” Tuesday/Thursday, 11:00am–12:15pm, in Conrad A. Elvehjem, Room L150. What does twentieth-century modernism look like from a global perspective? Is it possible to speak of a singular …
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | AH 500/AH 800 India Looks East: Visual & Spatial Cultures of Asia
*NEW COURSE* Professor Preeti Chopra will be teaching AH 500/800/ASIAN 630 “India Looks East: Visual & Spatial Cultures of Asia” in Spring 2022 on Mondays, 4:30–7:00pm, in-person. With a focus on modern South Asia, this seminar will also look …
Faculty News: Andrzejewski Publishes on DIY Madison
Professor Anna Andrzejewski has published “DIY Madison: How Marshall Erdman’s 1953 Expo Seized on a Growing Do-It-Yourself Trend” in the Winter 2021 volume of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. Andrzejewski’s article examines a home improvement show the Madison-based …
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | AH 867: Historical and Cultural Methods in Environmental Research
This spring, Professor Anna Andrzejewski will be teaching the graduate seminar AH 867/Env. Studies 922 “Historical and Cultural Methods in Environmental Research,” Tuesdays, 4:00–6:30pm, in-person. This course in Environmental Humanities addresses the ethics and politics of working on the …
Art History Lecture TODAY! Transporting Jade in China
Transporting Jade in ChinaTuesday, November 9th, 2021 | 4:00–5:30pm CTCenter for East Asian Studies | Register here Yulian Wu, assistant professor in the History Department at Michigan State University, specializes in material culture, gender relations, and …