Art History undergrad Sophia Abrams is one of two undergraduate awardees of the Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Student Award in the Creative Arts. Sophia is a Powers-Knapp senior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison studying …
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Save the Date for the 2022 Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Series!
Save the Date for the 2022 Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Series! On Thursday, March 31st, 2022, 7:00–8:30pm CT, Professor Steven Nelson, Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the …
Student Spotlight: Unsettling the Landscape, Panel Discussion w/Kendra Greendeer (Ph.D. Candidate)
This Wednesday, January 19th, 3:00–4:00pm CT, Ph.D. Candidate Kendra Greendeer will be moderating a virtual discussion with Indigenous artists Erin Genia, Margarita Paz-Pedro, and Mona Cliff. This fall Kendra completed a fellowship with The Research Center for …
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2022
It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and we encourage you to attend this year’s MLK Symposium “An Evening with Nikole Hannah-Jones” on Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 at 6:30pm CT. It will be an evening of …
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | Ancient Architectural Practice
This spring, Professor Nick Cahill will be teaching the seminar AH 505/805 “Ancient Architectural Practice,” T 4:00–6:30pm, humanities breadth and L&S credit. When visiting an ancient site for the first or even the thousandth time, most people’s immediate response is, …
Mark Your Calendars for Day of the Badger 2022!
Gifts made during #DayoftheBadger will go toward maintaining the Department of Art History’s excellence in education. Show your support Tuesday, April 5th, 10:12am CT–Wednesday, April 6th, 5:00pm CT at dayofthebadger.org
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | From Empire to Brexit: British Art & Society From the 18th c. to the Present
Professor Nancy Rose Marshall will teach AH 346 “From Empire to Brexit: British Art & Society From the 18th c. to the Present” in Spring 2022, MW 2:30–3:45pm, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140, humanities …
Student Spotlight: Ujaan Ghosh’s Translation Published
Ph.D. Candidate Ujaan Ghosh and Amrita Chowdhury (Ph.D. Student, Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison) translated two essays of Sacchidananda Mishra and Krushnachandra Panigrahi from Odia to English. The essays are now published from Routledge India under the …
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | Latin American Photography: Freaks, Geeks, and Revolutionaries
This spring, Professor Guillermina De Ferrari will be teaching AH 430/600 “Latin American Photography: Freaks, Geeks, and Revolutionaries,” TR 1:00–2:15pm, humanities breadth and L&S credit. This course meets with LACIS 440. We will explore Latin American photography from the …
Faculty News: Emeritus Prof. Julia Murray Publishes New Book
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Julia K. Murray on her new book The Aura of Confucius: Relics and Representations of the Sage at the Kongzhai Shrine in Shanghai, published with Cambridge University Press. The Aura of Confucius is a ground-breaking study that …