A research seminar series organized by the Ph.D. Program in Art History, the Rewald talks offer an opportunity for faculty and students to hear cutting-edge research in progress by scholars from inside and outside CUNY! Save the following dates:Â
October 2: Michael Gillespie, The City College of New York [title forthcoming]
October 16: Jennifer Josten, University of Pittsburgh, “Messages from Cold War Mexico”
October 30: Alison Locke Perchuk, California State University Channel Islands, “The Unbearable Lightness of Whiteness: Racism and Medievalism in the Architecture of Prewar Los Angeles”
November 13: Jane Sharp, Rutgers University, “Abstraction in the Soviet 1960s—Aesop’s Language?”
November 27: Barry Flood, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, “Other Statue Histories: Jacquemart’s Lions and Iconoclasm as Anti-Colonialism in Khedival Egypt”
*Please note: This seminar will begin at 6:00 PM rather than 5:30 PM
December 4: Janet Kraynak, Columbia University, “Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life”
A flyer with this semester’s Rewald dates can be downloaded here
