Art History

Professor John Lopez presented “Renaissance Cartography and the Mapping of Environmental Crisis at Viceregal Mexico City” at the Viewing Topography Across the Globe workshop conducted at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University on December 11, 2019.

Professor Katharine Burnett  traveled to Taichung, Taiwan in early December to present papers at two symposia at National Chung Hsing University.

On November 20, Professor Talinn Grigor gave a gallery talk at the National Museum of Asian Art on their show “My Iran: Six Women Photographers.” This show will be on display until February 9, 2020.

Professor Talinn Grigor is participating in Cities Workshop 4: Shiraz at the Silsila Center for Material Histories at New York University. Talinn will discuss “The Return of Persepolis to Shiraz, 1771-1971″ on this December 6 panel workshop.

What’s so important about tin you ask? Well, Professor Alexandra Sofroniew can answer that burning question. Alex is one of several campus faculty celebrating the 150th birthday of the periodic table! The College of Letters and Science asked campus experts to share their favorite element and Alex was selected to discuss tin and it’s role in the Bronze Age.

Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh’s new book, The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice, has won Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award. This award recognizes outstanding scholarship on Armenian society, culture, and history from ancient times to the present. Professor Watenpaugh is one of two authors receiving this recognition. Congratulations!

Professor Katharine Burnett participated in the Kui Ge Lecture Series at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, presenting “Art History without the Art: The Curious Case of Sino-Vietnamese Teapots Before 1700.” Her talk discussed the exchange of tea culture and teapots between China and Vietnam between 1300-1700, with an emphasis on the late Ming period.

Alum Danielle Bronson (BA Art History and Art Studio, 2019) will be giving a lecture at the Living Computer Museum and Labs in Seattle on net.art. 
Her talk will take place Saturday, October 19, 2019 from 3-4 pm.

Bronson is currently based in the Bay Area and is a contributing author to Sartle.com

Alum Sara Sumpter (BA 2006) will speak on the role of thunder god in Japanese art. Her talk, “Bringing the Thunder,” will take place at Sac State on Wednesday October 30. Dr. Sara Sumpter received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2016.

Alum Matthew Weseley (MA 2013) will be co-curating an exhibition on the artist Robert Colescott entitled “Robert Colescott: Art and Race Matters.”  This show, the first comprehensive retrospective of the compelling and controversial artist, will display 85 works from 53 years of Robert Colescott’s (1925-2009) career, highlighting an extensive body of work that confronted diversity and racial stereotypes.

Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh will be on CapRadio’s Insight with Beth Ruyak TODAY at 9 am to discuss her new book The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice. In case you miss it, you can catch it online.

Heghnar Watenpaugh’s new book The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice, has just been released! Published by Stanford University Press, The Missing Pages “is the biography of a manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and cultural heritage. Its tale mirrors the story of its scattered community as Armenians have struggled to redefine themselves after genocide and in the absence of a homeland.

Talinn Grigor, who is currently on leave from UC Davis as a Visiting Fellow of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University, will discuss “Cosmopolitanism of Modernist Architects in Reza Shah’s Iran” at Princeton University.

Alexandra Sofroniew participated in the Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) Conference in San Diego this past January 4th. As part of a session on ‘Archaeology and Ritual in the Ancient Mediterranean: Recent Finds and Interpretive Approaches,’ Alex presented “Samnite Hairstyles? Individual Agency and Ethnic Identity in the Choice of Votive Terracottas from Pre-Roman Sacred Sites.”

Alum Nicole Berry (MA 2005) is spotlighted in an article in December’s Elle exploring the wake of #MeToo and the rise of women into high-profile positions of management. Berry, along with 12 other high profile women, tell their stories here.