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March 2018
Abbey Stockstill Lecture – The Mountains and the Red City: Identity in the Landscape of Almohad Marrakesh
The Mountains and the Red City: Identity in the Landscape of Almohad Marrakesh
Abbey Stockstill Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
Abbey Stockstill is completing her dissertation at Harvard University on The Mountains, the Mosque, and the Red City: Abd al-Mu’min and the Almohad Legacy of Marrakesh. Her interests place Marrakesh as a meeting point of the Mediterranean (both North Africa and Iberia) and Sub-Saharan Africa in the period 1000-1500, and incorporate a number of other interests, from performance and ceremonial to technological transmission.
Monday, March 12, 2018 at 5:15pm ARTS Seminar Room 333
Peyvand Firouzeh Lecture – Devotion, Space, and Authority in Early Modern Iran and Deccan India
Devotion, Space, and Authority in Early Modern Iran and Deccan India Peyvand Firouzeh, Ph.D. Cambridge University Peyvand Firouzeh received her PhD from Cambridge University in 2016. Her work links early modern Persia and India, and aims to break down the traditional distinc-tion between the Islamic and the Indic. More specifically, she looks at Sufism as an element of elite patronage that transcended this larger region, revising a longstanding idea that Sufism was antithetical to elite political ideology. She is completing…
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Art History At Work Lecture Series, Brooke Devenney Director of Individual Giving, MOCA
Building Sustainable Careers: Lesser-Known Paths
Brooke Devenney Director of Individual Giving Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Brooke Devenney, Director of Individual Giving at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), will discuss how a Master of Arts in Art History at the University of California, Riverside has benefitted her as a fundraising professional in the arts. Her presentation will focus on her experiences working at the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and MOCA. As a lesser-known career path for art history students, fundraising can be a very rewarding way to combine a love of art history with a sustainable career in art museums.
Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 4:30pm in ARTS 333
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Visiting Lecture – Chiara Seidl, Communication and Innovation: Alfred Stieglitz and his European Heritage
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Inka Rocks & Roads: A Visual Culture of Connectivity
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…
Find out more »May 2019
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 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…
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