The 2018-19 academic year has been a busy one for faculty and students alike, with a diverse new cohort of incoming students, along with two student-organized symposia and thirteen dissertation defenses. Continue reading “2018-2019 Alumni Newsletter”
This Thursday, March 28, join the editors of Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture and the Ph.D. Program in Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY for the launch symposium of Issue 11, “BLOOD AND EARTH AND SOIL.” Organized Art History PhD candidates Dana Liljegren and Chris Green, the publication and symposium explore how shifting conceptualizations of and claims to land, heritage, and state have been expressed in visual and material culture across time. Participants include Alison Boyd, Alyssa Bralower, Banu Cennetoglu, David Joselit, Seung-Min Lee, Jackson Polys, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Teresa Retzer, and Siona Wilson.
The event is open to the public, and seating is first-come, first-served. A live stream of the event will be available online at videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu.
See below for the full conference schedule!
Continue reading “Shift: Blood and Earth and Soil Symposium”
In The Drama Review’s summer 2018 issue, Professor Bishop explores the related phenomena of dance in the museum and new, technologically-mediated modes of attention. Continue reading “Faculty News: Claire Bishop Publishes “Black Box, White Cube, Gray Zone: Dance Exhibitions and Audience Attention””
Join Professor Joselit, Mary Ann Caws, Thierry de Duve, Sophie Seita, and Elizabeth Zuba for Marcel Duchamp, The Blind Man, and New York Dada: Institutional Critique and Editorial Practices, an evening of Dada-inspired conversation, with a special focus on New York Dada magazine “The Blind Man, ” edited by Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and Beatrice Wood in 1917, recently republished in a facsimile edition by Ugly Duckling Presse. Continue reading “Tonight: David Joselit on Marcel Duchamp, “The Blind Man,” and New York Dada at the Graduate Center”
On April 12, doctoral candidate Rebecca Pollack is organizing the conference, Jewish Memory and Culture: 1945-Present, co-sponsored by The Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY, the Doctoral Students’ Council, CUNY, and the Ph.D. Program in Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
