Lecture Series

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

 

Dickson Flyer Malcolm BakerMalcolm 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

 

2025 Brink Carrott Forster-Hahn Lecture Series

Join Us on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 5:30pm in ARTS 333

Brink Carrott Forester-Hahn Lecture SeriesSarah Salisbury, 2024 Barbara B. Brink Travel Award
Monumental Meetings: Locating Indigenous Monumentality at the Four Corners
Since 1875, the Four Corners Monument sits isolated at the northeast corner of the sovereign Navajo Nation, where it marks the convergence of four U.S. states — Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Over the past hundred fifty years, the monument has increasingly become a popular tourist destination, though it appears solely to celebrate its colonial cartography. In 2010, however, something unique happened. The Navajo Nation and the Ute Mountain Tribe, with assistance from various federal agencies, completed a total redesign of the monument. Its newly enlarged complex now situates a medley of forms that inscribe Indigenous values to the cadastral landmark. Therefore, it now appears the monument convenes two systems of culture — Indigenous American and Western-US settler-colonial — altering the commemorative significance of the Four Corners Monument.

Elizabeth Carleton, 2024 Richard G. Carrott Travel Award
Perfecting Galileo: Collaborations Between Artist and Astronomer in 17th-Century Europe
My dissertation evaluates three responses to Galileo’s lunar representations: Claude Mellan’s 1637 lunar engravings; Johannes Hevelius’s 1647 lunar atlas, Selenographia: sive, lunae descriptio; and Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s 1651 Almagestum novum. Each of these projects represents a different type of collaboration between artist and scientist in the early modern period. In revisiting seventeenth-century selenography, I hope to enhance our understanding of the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. The Carrott Grant enabled me to travel to Paris to conduct primary source research at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Paris Observatory.

Homer Arnold, 2024 Françoise Forster-Hahn Travel Award
Enabling the Enablers: Carp and the NEA
This talk examines how the Los Angeles arts production team Carp utilized loopholes and new grant categories created by the N.E.A. to fund their exhibitions during the long 1970s. While there is a canonized history of the “dematerialized” art object, there is a lesser-studied history of those who empowered artists in these pursuits, and an even lesser-known history of the funding that enabled this vaporization. Carp is a prime example of these understudied areas. To assist artists in the creation of public, ephemeral, and peripatetic artworks, Carp needed to stand at the complex intersection of art, the public, and money. As they succeeded in their fundraising, their projects became successful confrontations to pressing social issues while maintaining the DIY spirit of that decade. However, their success still depended on funding, showing that art in that era was tied to government and economic policies, even though artists often claimed otherwise.

 
 

 

Work in Progress Lecture Series

Crafting Kashmir: Painting & Stitching Place in the Nineteenth Century
Fatima Quraishi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History

Crafting Kashmir: Painting & Stitching Place in the Nineteenth CenturyThe verdant Kashmir Valley, a place of unearthly beauty, has long been a subject of praise and description. The history and geography of Kashmir appeared in multiple literary genres, including Sanskrit sources which claimed the valley to be a sacred landscape and Persian courtly literature which characterised Kashmir as being jannat nazir (paradise like). Recent scholarship has highlighted the connections between Mughal literary imaginings, political discourse, and the construction of gardens in Kashmir, interpreting these landscaped spaces as a means to claim sovereignty over the land. In the nineteenth century, the region was again the subject of an imperial discourse, that of the British empire, a discourse shaped by a particular interest in the production of Kashmiri shawls, a highly sought after commodity in Victorian England. Among the shawls were a small set of embroidered ‘map’ shawls which depicted the city of Srinagar and its significant landmarks, both natural and manmade, one of which was sent as a gift to Queen Victoria. Large-scale painted cotton maps of the entire valley were also produced in the mid-nineteenth century, often employing the same visual conventions as the shawls. This paper explores the image-making practices which underlay the production of these textiles, departing from existing scholarship which has emphasized their imbrication within the colonial enterprise. I instead approach their resistance of the colonial gaze and highlight how the craftsmen creating them were informed by a distinctly South Asian, perhaps even Kashmiri, sense of place. 

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 5:30PM in ARTS 333

 

 

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

 

Join Us for the 2023 Undergraduate Paths Series!

 
Undergraduate Paths SeriesDemystifying Graduate School in Art History
Tuesday, May 9 at Noon via Zoom

This panel brings together current graduate students and faculty in art history. Panelists will discuss graduate school, applications, including how to put together and application and how to choose which programs are appropriate for you. Panelists will discuss their own experiences as graduate students of art history, what it entails, managing expectations and workloads, and strategies for successfully navigating graduate school.

Speakers:
Lily Allen, PhD candidate, UCR
Alan Carillo, PhD student, University of Iowa
Yong Cho, Assistant Professor, UCR
Rebekkah Hart, PhD student, Case Western Reserve University


Putting Your Art History Degree to Work
Tuesday, May 16 at Noon via Zoom

This panel brings together working professionals with undergraduate and advanced degrees in art history who have gone on to have a broad range of careers. Panelists will discuss their positions and their career paths, including how their art history degrees prepared them for their positions.

Speakers:
Cosette Bruhns Alonso, Contemporary Publishing Fellow, Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
Maite Alvarez, Project Specialist, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Karen Gudino-Flores, Riverside Public Library, Main Library
Diego Roberto Irigoyen, Digital Resource Specialist, Department of Art History, UCR