Students in Professor Pruitt’s Art Hist 210: A History of the World in 20 Buildings have been exploring Madison architecture through an Instagram scavenger hunt. Check us out at #buckysbuildings.
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Brott publishes article in Cartographica
Ph.D. candidate LauraLee Brott’s essay “The Geography of Devotion in the British Library Map Psalter (BL Add. MS 28681)” was published in the fall 2018 issue of Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and …
Beautiful and Deadly: The Dangerous Plants of Edward Burne-Jones
October 4, 2018 at 12:00 PM Class of 1941 Lecture Room Between the 1850s and 1890s, Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones filles his paintings with plants that attack, adorn, and engulf human figures. This was also …
Fieldschool in North Dakota
Prof. Anna Andrzejewski took 7 graduate students to southwestern North Dakota for 5 days to research the vanishing buildings of German-Russian immigrants. These early twentieth-century buildings built of fieldstone have not received any scholarly attention …
Jill Casid keynotes IAVC conference
Professor Jill Casid delivers the keynote on “Doing Things with Being Undone” at the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Visual Culture in London September 13th to 15th. Taking up the issues surrounding …
Michelle Prestholt wins Schewe Award
The department is pleased to announce this year’s winner of the Schewe Award for Best Graduate Student Paper (2017-18) is Michelle Prestholt. Michelle’s paper is entitled “Oppositional Identities: The Monstrous Peoples at Vezelay and …
Memorial celebration honors the late Prof. Menocal August 25
A Memorial celebrating Narciso’s extraordinary life was held on Saturday, August 25 at the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, in Madison. A reception followed from 4:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Fluno Center, 601 …
Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths
“Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths,” organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, will examine how the smith’s craft extends from the production of the most basic of domestic tools to the creation …
Professor Casid delivers Berlin lecture
As part of the lecture series Intensify Desire at the Kunsthistorisches Institut at the Freie Universitat in Berlin organized by Christian Liclair and Susanne Huber, Professor Casid presented, “Queer Deformativity: Mark Morrisroe, Jack Pierson, …
2018 Undergraduate Prize Winners
The Department is pleased to announce the winners of our 2018 Undergraduate Prizes. Hoyon Mephokee wins the Warfield Family Essay Prize for his paper (written for Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall’s seminar), “Exploring the Exotic: …