Monthly Archives: January 2025

 

7th Annual Getty Graduate Symposium

2025 Getty Graduate SymposiumFriday, February 7, 2025, 9:45am-6pm
Museum Lecture Hall and Online

The Getty Research Institute hosts the 7th annual Getty Graduate Symposium, which showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into 3 sessions, the symposium includes 9 individual presentations, moderated panel discussions, and Q&A sessions with the audience.

Participants include our own PhD candidate, Ashley McNelis

This event is FREE  free but advance tickets are required.

Participants:
Ashley McNelis, University of California, Riverside
Axelle Toussaint, University of California, Santa Cruz
Elissa Watters, University of Southern California
Elizabeth Fair, University of California, Berkeley
Emily Chun, Stanford University
Hande Sever, University of California, San Diego
Natalie Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles
Taylor Van Doorne, University of California, Santa Barbara
Zane Casimir, University of California, Irvine

 

 

Local and Transnational: Buddhist Iconographies in Contemporary Mongolian Art

Presentation by Prof. Uranchimeg (Orna) Tsultem
Herron School of Art and Design Indiana University-Indianapolis

January 30, 2025
11:00-12:20PM
INTN 3023
In-person or online

This presentation examines the uses of Buddhist teachings, iconography, and symbols in Mongolian contemporary art. Through a comparative analysis with well- known contemporary Himalayan artists, the presentation will discuss how the typology of the “Two Buddhisms” (Paul Numrich 2003, Johan Elverskog 2006), which refers to ethnic and local vs. modern and transnational, has an interesting parallel in contemporary art. The talk will introduce and analyze prominent Mongolian artists, such as B. Baatarzorig, B. Nomin, D. Soyolmaa and Ch. Baasanjav, whose works have been shown in galleries and museums around the world.

Prof. Tsultem is a scholar of Mongolian art and culture whose research focuses mainly on Buddhist art and architecture and contemporary Asian art. She is the author of many articles and books on the artistic and cultural history of Buddhist Inner Asia, including A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia (University of Hawai’i Press, 2020). Prof. Tsultem has also had a prolific, international curatorial career, focused especially on exhibiting the work of contemporary Mongolian artists. She was most recently curator for Mongol Zurag: The Art of Resistance, which showed at the Garibaldi Gallery in Venice, Italy in late 2024.

Co-sponsored by UCR’s Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of the History of Art

Graduate Seminar with Dr. Jussi Parikka Followed by Book Talk

Dr. Jussi ParikkaMonday, January 13, 2025 10am to 12:30pm
CHASS Interdisciplinary South 1111

Dr. Parikka is the inaugural International Visiting Professor at UCR’s Center for Ideas and Society, sponsored by the Vice Provost for International Affair’s office and the Center’s Being Human initiative.

This event will be followed by a book conversation at 2:00PM in INTS 1109 with Prof. Gloria Chan Sook Kim and Dr. Parikka about his new book, Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (2024)

 

Living Surfaces Book TalkLiving Surfaces examines a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces.

Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing at the event.

Parking permits will be provided for non- UCR guests.

Space is limited and registration is required for this event:

https://bit.ly/parikkaseminar

Sponsored by the Being Human Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society and the UCR English Department.