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Work In Progress Series: Professor of Art History, Jason Weems, Ph.D.

Static Image, Moving Past: Photography and Space-Time in Latin American Archaeology, Circa 1900

Jason Weems, Ph.D. Professor of Art History

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 5:15pm in ARTS 333, Free

The introduction of photography into archaeology around the turn of the century both enhanced and disrupted the latter, particularly concerning concepts of space and time. Space-time relations were crucial to both practices, as each seeks the transformation of organic spatial experience into abstract chronological fixity (the photographic plate, the archaeological timeline). In light of overarching debates about time and space in the context of archaeology in the Americas, this paper considers the paradoxical implications of photography in archaeology.

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Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Mariachiara Gasparini Lecture at UCI

Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture
“Reorienting Sasanian Textiles: From Wool to Silk Beyond Taq-e Bostan”
A Talk by Dr. Mariachiara Gasparini (UC Riverside/San Jose State University)

Wednesday, May 22, 2019, 6-8 pm

UC Irvine’s Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010

Event Info: https://www.humanities.uci.edu/persianstudiesminor/calendar/events.php?recid=7846&dept_code_val=996-2&css_path=persianstudiesminor&file_name=events

 

Brink Carrott Lecture Series 2019

Thursday, April 18, 2019
5:15-6:45pm, ARTS 333

Featured Speakers:

Camilla Querin, 2018 Richard G. Carrott Travel Award
Where are the Blacks? On the Importance of Afro-Brazilian Culture and Its Marginalization in Mainstream Art

Angela Lessing, 2018 Barbara B. Brink Travel Award
Responsibilities of the Imagination: Ruminations and Relationships in Graciela Iturbide’s Juchitán de las Mujeres

Shannon Dailey, 2018 Richard G. Carrott Travel Award
Framing Guinevere: Scottish Nationalism, Feminism, and Figuration in Jessie M. King’s Illustrations of The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems

Timothy Lithgow, 2017 Richard G. Carrott Travel Award
George Dureau: A Louisiana Artist

 

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Each year, the UCR Art History department calls for applications for two graduate student awards. Students with plans to conduct archival research, museum visits, or other research related travels are strongly encouraged to apply: www.arthistory.ucr.edu/graduate/brink-carrott-graduate-awards/

Inka Rocks & Roads: A Visual Culture of Connectivity

Carolyn Dean
Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
University of California, Santa Cruz

Drawing on her research of Inka material and performance culture both before and after the Spanish Invasion of the Andes. Dean’s work focuses on Inka stonework and its significance given the Andean understanding of rock as sentient and potentially animate.

Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas & Society and the Departments of Anthropology and Art History.

Wednesday, February 27 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm

College Building South, 114

 

The Art History Association’s

Graduate School Talk

February 6  at 5pm

Graduate Student Lounge ARTS 328

Come learn about graduate school requirements, work, and tips with Cynthia Neri.

Camilla Querin at the Getty Graduate Symposium

Art History Doctoral Candidate, Camilla Querin, presented at the Getty Graduate Symposium on January 26, 2019. The Getty Graduate Symposium comprises art history graduate students from California research universities: Stanford, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD, UCSB, UCSC and USC. The students have been elected by faculty at their respective departments to represent their institutions. Each student gives a 20 minute talk followed by Q&A. Camilla’s talk was “Dialectics of Maladragem: When Arts Transform the Outcast into a Hero.”

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