Professor Katharine Burnett will introduce the history of growing
and tasting tea in China in her upcoming lecture “Tea in the
History and Culture of China.”
Are you tired of eating lunch alone? Join Justina Martino (M.A.,
art history, ‘15) Public Engagement and Outreach Manager)
and Brooklynn Johnson (M.F.A. art studio, ‘
Professor Michael Yonan will present a paper at a virtual
conference sponsored by the University of Kassel,
Germany, the University of Rome, and the University of
Barcelona focused on “Europe and the Ancient Near
East: Reception and Construction of Images of the Ancient
Near East since the 17th Century.”
Professor Katharine Burnett, Art History, and faculty director,
Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and
Science Chinese Art and Culture, is the author
of Shaping Chinese Art History: Pang Yuanji and His
Painting Collection which has just been released by
Cambria Press.
Professor Alexandra Sofroniew will speak at the Pence Gallery for
their Art History Lecture Series on “Homemade Votive Offerings:
Giving Gifts to the Gods in Ancient Italy.” Her lecture will be
Saturday, January 16 from 2-3 pm (PST) via Zoom.
Alumna Jennifer Dasal (BA ‘02) and her newly published book
Art Curious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and
Strangely Wonderful in Art History (Penguin, September 2020)
are featured in the latest College of Letters and Science
newsletter.
Professor Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh has received a Public
Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) to support her research for a book about the medieval
Armenian city of Ani.
Congratulations to art history student Arisa Bunanan whose paper
“Helvetica and ZXX: Ubiquity and Surveillance in a Democratic
Nation-State” was accepted to Prized Writing
Senior and Art History major Andrea Cota recently presented
(virtually) her paper ”A Paradise Without God: Psychosexual
Analysis of Hieronymus Bosch ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’” at
the Richard
Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium
at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. The conference was
conducted April 3-4, 2020.
Places features
DES 40B in its coverage of how design and architectural education
is being delivered during the COVID-19 crisis. In “Field
Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 2″, Professor Simon Sadler
discusses how he addresses the challenge of remote teaching,
applying ”shock doctrine” to his pedagogy, in his
course DES 40B.
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.