Podcasts and Videocasts UIC Art History: add your podcast or videocast here. Podcasts Heading link Copy link Masala History UIC alumna Deepthi Murali (Ph.D. 2020) on South Asia humanities on the web. Latinos Who Lunch Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas Emmanuel Ortega, aka Babelito, on pop culture, art and identity politics. Lectures and Video Essays Heading link Copy link Is Frida CANCELLED? Emmanuel Ortega (Marilynn Thoma Scholar in Art of the Spanish Americas) in conversation with Dr. Josie Lopez Women of Art History: Shana Klein Emmanuel Ortega (Marilynn Thoma Scholar in Art of the Spanish Americas) in conversation with art historian Shana Klein José María Velasco and landscape painting Emmanuel Ortega (Marilynn Thoma Scholar in Art of the Spanish Americas) gives a Smarthistory webinar Rags to Riches: Paper Culture in the Age of Bubble Nina Dubin (Associate Professor) at a Huntington Conference on "Ecologies of Paper in the Early Modern World." Iconoclasm, Then and Now Ömür Harmanşah (Associate Professor)participates in a panel discussion about Aaron Tugendhaft’s book "The Idols of ISIS" Why Babylon? / Pourquoi Babylone? Ömür Harmanşah (Associate Professor) on creating a utopian past to imagine the future. Disposable Landscapes, Disposable Heritage Ömür Harmanşah (Associate Professor) on Politics of the Ancient Past in the Anthropocene. Unsettling Journeys Emmanuel Ortega (Visiting Assistant Professor): lectures and video essays on Colonial Latin American Art History Hubert Robert at the Flower-Strewn Abyss Nina Dubin (Associate Professor) on love in the age of bubbles. Love Anger Depression Abstraction Blake Stimson (Professor) on the art of R.H. Quaytman. Seeing Like a State Blake Stimson (Professor) on statism in the mature work of Paul Strand. The American Dream and Dreams Deferred Lisa Yun Lee (Associate Professor) on the National Public Housing Museum Vital Voids Andrew Finegold (Assistant Professor) on holes in Mesoamerican material culture Poetics of Research and Practice in Art History Open House/Open Studios 2020 BA/MA Symposium 2020 Heading link Copy link Welcome Remarks by Nina Dubin Director of Graduate Studies Nina Dubin welcomes participants and guests to the 2020 BA/MA Symposium Introductions by Emmanuel Ortega Visiting Asst. Prof. Emmanuel Ortega introduces the first two speakers, Jacqueline Valdez and Kayleigh Doyen Jacqueline Valdez on Yvette Mayorga "Immigrant Reflections on Buen Gusto: The American Dream in Yvette Mayorga's High Maintenance Series" Kayleigh Doyen on Luis Medina "The Landscape of Luis Medina" Q & A for Jacqueline and Kayleigh Jacqueline Valdez and Kayleigh Doyen respond to questions about their talks Liz Fahey on Romare Bearden and Wangechi Mutu "Transformation and Transfiguration in the Figural Collages of Romare Bearden and Wangechi Mutu" Mariela Espinoza-Léon on Jesús Helguera "La Leyenda de los Volcanes: Sentimentality, Chromolithographs, and the Mexican Nation" Closing Remarks by Chair Catherine Becker A toast to those graduating and departmental awards