Professor Alexandra Sofroniew will present her paper “Did Votive
Offerings Stop Working? The End of the “Votive Habit” in
Republican Italy” at a conference at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor on May 23.
Jingwei Zeng, Visiting Scholar in art history, has just
published “Some Contributing Factors to the Modernity of
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century’s Chinese Calligraphy
and Paintings” in the journal Art Frontier.
The journal, Art Frontier, is co-edited by another
Visiting Scholar in art history Junping Liu.
Caroline Riley is a research associate with a
Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from Boston
University (2011-2016). She is currently a National Endowment for
the Humanities Fellow working on her second book Thérèse
Bonney and the Power of Global Syndicated Photography.
Even though Margaret Culuris-Harp (M.A., ‘24) is nearing
completion of a first M.A. in art history, she is already looking
ahead at her next scholarly enterprise: continuing her
studies at Hebrew University with a Fulbright
Fellowship.
Professor Katharine Burnett’s recent publication, “UC Davis
Global Tea Institute Professional Tea Certificate Program,
2023–2024,” was published in the World Green Tea Association
bulletin Ryokucha
Allison Grenda (M.A., ‘20) will give a public lecture at the
Pence Gallery as part of their Art History Lecture Series.
“The Parthenon Through the Ages: From Ancient Rituals to Modern
Controversies” is scheduled for Saturday, March 23 from 1-2 pm
via Zoom
Congratulations to Emily Szasz (M.A., ‘22) on her new position as
Program Coordinator, Volunteer Services at the Museum of Tolerance and
Simon Wiesenthal Center.
A special exhibition of Japanese tea ware features both art
objects and rare books from the UC Davis’s Global Tea Institute
Collection of Art and Material Culture.
Professor Katharine Burnett’s newly released article
“Contemporaneity in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting, Theory,
and Criticism” has been published in the latest issue of Ming
Studies (Volume 2023, Issue 88, pp. 3-33).
Professor Katharine Burnett is on a whirlwind tour of Taipei,
Taiwan where she is presenting papers and lectures at several
Taiwanese universities and colloquia.
Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh has contributed an article to
the recently published book Ordering Imperial Worlds:
From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East edited by
Susan Slyomovics.
Congratulations to alum Srdan Tunic (M.A., ’23) whose article
“The New Gods: Merging the Ancient and the Contemporary of Egypt”
was just published in
The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms.
Professor Michael Yonan has edited the latest issue of
Journal18 which examines the theme of “cold” in
essays on climate change and
control, comfort, ice, and other weather related
topics, and how our pursuit of modernity transformed both our
climate and our relationship to it.
Professor Talinn Grigor will present her paper ”Pedagogical
Realignment and Hyphenated Historians of Qajar
Architecture: Vrdanis Eiwziwkʻchean and Kavasji Kiash in
Dialogue” at the 10th biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium
on Islamic Art in Doha this Nov. 12.
Katharine Burnett, professor of art history, will give the Ellen
Bayard Weedon Lecture at the Fralin Museum of Art in
the University of Virginia in November.
The Art and Art History Club is open to all art studio and art
history majors, minors, and friends. Our purpose is to learn
about and discuss all things relating to art and art history. We
do this through open discussions at meetings, going on field
trips to art museums and galleries, watching art-related movies,
selling student-made art, and promoting art education. We are
working hard to create an art community among UC Davis
undergraduates.