Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh will present a public lecture at the Getty Center Research Institute on cultural heritage and genocide. In “Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide,” Watenpaugh will discuss how the genocidal process, specifically as it relates to the Armenian Genocide, extends beyond the physical extinction of the targeted community to include the erasure, appropriation, or transfer of the community’s cultural assets.
Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh is participating in a forum exploring issues of heritage — antiquities, landscapes, sites, ancestral remains, or immaterial cultural expressions – as “cultural assets” in Istanbul, Turkey from Oct. 3-4, 2024.
Join PBS KVIE for a screening of Leonardo da Vinci, a new film by Ken Burns, followed by a conversation with art studio alum Julia Couzens (M.F.A. ‘90) and design Professor James Housefield as they discuss the towering achievements of Leonardo da Vinci.
Recently gifted works to the Manetti Shrem Museum from dedicated art lovers and philanthropists Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem are the focus on a new exhibition curated and designed by UC Davis students.
Congratulations to alum Hannah Thompson (M.A. ‘23) on her new position as Cultural Facilities Curator for the City of Oroville Museums. Hannah will support Oroville’s five museums: C.F. Lott Historical Home, The Oroville Chinese Temple, The Feather River Nature Center and Native Plant Park, The Bolt’s Antique Tool Museum, and The Pioneer History Museum.
Carnegie Institute, established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the great age of museum building in the United States, took shape between 1895 and 1907. Financed solely by Andrew Carnegie, it stood as an oddity in having no founder’s collection leading some to interpret Carnegie’s role as that of a silent financial partner who turned over creative control to others.
Professor Diana Strazdes has published an article in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art on the artist William James Stillman that explores the varied career of the artist.
Professor Talinn Grigor participated in a two-day international colloquium focused on the Armenian diasporic dynamics in the 21st century. Grigor presented “Of Feminist Interventions in Irano-Armenian Diaspora-in-Motion: Suitcase Objects as Depository” at panel 4: (In)visible diaspora agents.
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.
