2026 Brink Carrott Forster-Hahn Lecture Series
Thursday, April 30 at 5:30 in Arts 333

Emily Citino, 2025 Barbara B. Brink Travel Award
Taking Care: Anna Maria Maiolino in Archives Across São Paulo
PhD student Emily Citino will discuss her research trip to São Paulo to view archival materials on the Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942) housed at four institutions across the city. In her talk, Emily will provide a brief overview of her dissertation, Anna Maria Maiolino: Art, Gender, Displacement (1960s–2020s), which is the first monographic study, in any language, of the artist. Although Maiolino emerged during the authoritarianism of the 1960s and 1970s, Emily’s project shifts focus from the country’s military dictatorship’s (1964–1985) to the entrenched male chauvinism of Brazil’s Catholic, conservative society, tracing the artist’s dynamic experimentation across new and traditional media, from performance and video to drawing and sculpture, and situating Maiolino’s practice alongside the expansion of women’s rights in Brazil. Throughout her talk, Emily will discuss how the financial support of the Barbara B. Brink Travel Award launched her dissertation research, providing access to essential, non-digitized archival materials.

Xinqian Zhang, 2025 Richard G. Carrott Travel Award
Heaven’s Craft in the Making of Things: Revisit Jingdezhen’s Porcelain
This presentation reflects on my recent research trip to Beijing and Jingdezhen in China, where I explored porcelain from both museum collections and production sites. While I initially approached porcelain as an object of circulation and representation, closely tied to imperial power and global exchange, my experience in Jingdezhen began to shift this perspective. Encountering kiln sites, workshop environments, and local materials, I began to see porcelain not just as a delicate finished object, but as a process shaped by the interaction of earth, water, fire, human labor, and living experience in the ecology and cosmotechinics of early modern China. Drawing on Tiangong Kaiwu, a seventeenth-century text on craft and technology that informs the title of this talk, I consider how porcelain production reflects a broader cosmological and material understanding of making, and the embodied experience with porcelain in tea culture as a mental and physical healing related to the medical humanities. By moving between institutional spaces and lived environments, this talk highlights how travel-based research can transform the way we understand material culture, bridging objects, processes, and ecological contexts.

Rebecca Allen, 2025 Françoise Forster-Hahn Travel Award
Alchemical Secrecy in Manuscript and Print: Das Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit and Pandora
This talk examines the transition from manuscript to print in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European alchemical texts through a case study of two works: the early fifteenth-century manuscript Das Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit (1410–1419) and the later printed book Pandora, das ist, die edelste Gab Gottes (1582). Drawing on research conducted for my M.A. thesis, it is grounded in firsthand study of materials at the Kupferstichkabinett, Herzog August Bibliothek, and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, supported by the Françoise Forster-Hahn Travel Award. Special attention is given to Cod. 78 A 11 at the Kupferstichkabinett, widely understood as the earliest extant copy of Heilige Dreifaltigkeit. Because this manuscript is not digitized, direct examination was essential to my analysis of its images and text. By comparing it with later manuscript copies and printed adaptations, the talk considers how material form and image-text relationships structure the transmission of alchemical knowledge.

2026 Getty Graduate Symposium

Friday, February 6, 2026, 9:45am-6pm
Museum Lecture Hall and Online

The Getty Research Institute hosts the 8th annual Getty Graduate Symposium, which showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions, the symposium includes nine individual presentations, moderated panel discussions, and Q&A sessions with the audience.

Participants include our own PhD candidate, Lily Allen

This event is FREE  free but advance tickets are required. 
To watch online, register via Zoom 

Participants:
Anahit Galstyan, University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrea Jung-An Liu, University of California, Berkeley
Bermet Nishanova, University of California, Irvine
Dejan Vasić, Stanford University
Evelyn Char, University of California, Santa Cruz
Johnnie Chatman, University of California, San Diego
Lily Allen, University of California, Riverside
Margot Yale, University of Southern California
Thomas Duncan, University of California, Los Angeles

UC Riverside Retirees’ and Emeriti Associations with additional sponsorship by UCR Osher and UCR’s Office of Gift Planning Present
The Edward A. Dickson Emeritus/a Professorship Lecture Series

Conrad Rudolph, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medieval Art History
SIGNATURE ROCKS: EMIGRATION AND THE SIGNED LANDSCAPE IN INDIAN COUNTRY: 1830-1860

Signature Rocks is the first systematic study of the surviving “signatures” inscribed by the emigrants, as they called themselves, on both the famous and not so famous rock formations that line the overland trails through Indian Country from the Missouri River to the Pacific from the 1830s to 1869.  Once numbering in the hundreds of thousands, only several thousand have survived. Following the overland crossing, we read  hese inscriptions — an unrecognized and vanishing American archive — in light of a number of motivations to signing culled from the over two thousand emigrant journals and other accounts that have come down to us. The result is a new understanding of this completely overlooked  spect of one of the most iconic episodes in the history of the United States.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. with Reception to follow
In-person at University Extension Building 1101 in the University Village
Livestreamed via Zoom

Huntington Library Open House @UCR
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 3pm to 5:30pm

The Huntington Comes to UCR!

Join Huntington Library Director of Research Susan Juster, members of her staff, and Huntington curators for an Open House event at UC Riverside. Juster and her team will share insights into the Huntington’s fellowship program, the application process, and what makes for a strong application.

The Huntington is a word-class research institution, which promotes humanities scholarship on the basis of its library holdings and art collections. 

Whether you are a graduate student or a faculty member, please mark your calendar. This is a unique opportunity to learn and connect. An informal reception with drinks and snacks will follow the presentations.

Schedule

3:00-4:30 – Presentations from Huntington programming team, with Q&A
4:30-5:30 – Reception

RSVPs appreciated: https://bit.ly/HuntingtonUCR

Speakers

Susan Juster oversees the Research division that hosts more than 150 long- and short-term research fellows each year, selected through a competitive, peer-review process that provides $1.4 million in awards.

Brett Rushforth is editor-in-chief of the Huntington Library Quarterly, a peer-reviewed academic journal featuring original research and new perspectives on early modern art, literature, history, science, medicine, and material culture.

Shannon McHugh, the assistant director of research, helps connect the research of Huntington fellows with broader audiences while making connections between The Huntington’s historical collections and the present.

Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D., is the head of the Library Curatorial department and curates the Library’s renowned collections of medieval manuscripts and British history.

Diva Zumaya, Ph.D., the associate curator of European art, researches The Huntington’s collection of European art, finds new connections between objects, and collaborates with Library and Botanical colleagues.

Sponsored by the UCR Department of History and the Being Human initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society.

UC Riverside Retirees’ and Emeriti Associations with additional sponsorship by UCR Osher and UCR’s Office of Gift Planning Present
The Edward A. Dickson Emeritus/a Professorship Lecture Series

Malcolm Baker, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History
THE ART-HISTORICAL GENRE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME?  Authorship, Objects and Reconfiguring the Sculptural Catalogue Raisonné

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. with Reception to follow
In-person at University Extension Building 1101 in the University Village
Livestreamed via Zoom

https://events.ucr.edu/event/the-art-historical-genre-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-authorship-objects-and-reconfiguring-the-sculptural-catalogue-raisonne