UIC Art History announces Fall 2019 Colloquium Schedule
All events will take place on Friday afternoons, at 3:30 pm, in room 106 Henry Hall
Aug. 30—Notes from the Field, Members of the department share insights and observations from their travels
Sept. 6—Daniel Bataller (Doctoral Candidate, UIC Dept. of Art History), "Art and the Specter of Fascism in Post-Socialist Chile and Spain"
Sept. 13—Patrick Crowley (Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago), "Parrhasius' Curtain, or, a Media Archaeology of a Metapainting"
Sept. 20—Departmental Summer Reading Discussion, On Kings, by David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins
Sept. 27—Ellen Baird (Professor Emerita of Art History, UIC), "Parts of the Body: Order and Disorder in the Codex Florentino"
Oct. 4—Kaveh Rafie (Doctoral Student in Art History, UIC), "Black Box Aesthetics at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and the Tehran School of Decorative Arts"
Oct. 11—Mini-Conference on Contemporary Latin American Art: Kaira Cabañas (Professor in Global Modern and Contemporary Art History, U. Florida), "Toward Discomfort," and Daniel Quiles (Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, SAIC), "Marked Gaze: Edin Vélez, 1977–1984"
Oct. 18—Chanchal Dadlani (Associate Professor of Art History, Wake Forest University), "Translating India: Art, Epistemology, and Mughal-French Exchange in the Late Eighteenth Century"
Oct. 25—Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi (Associate Professor of Art History, Emory University) and Constantine Petridis (Chair of the Department of the Arts of Africa and the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago), "Mapping Senufo: A Digital Publication Project about Art, Evidence, and the Production of Knowledge"
Nov. 1—Norma Claire Moruzzi (Associate Professor, UIC Depts. of Political Science, Gender & Women’s Studies, and History), "Public Art in Private Spaces: Site-Specific Art Installations in Tehran, 1992 and 2014"
Nov. 8—Lia Markey (Director, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library), "Mapping Brazil in Florence: Dudley’s Arcano del Mare"
Nov. 15—Lisa Lee (Associate Professor, UIC Dept. of Art History), "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
Nov. 22—Francesco Marullo (Assistant Professor, UIC School of Architecture), "A Project of Distance"
Nov. 29—NO COLLOQUIUM–THANKSGIVING
Dec. 6—Holiday Party