Villela Balderrama Presents on Pitt's 2024 Diversity Forum
Graduate student Marisol Villela Balderrama will co-facilitate the workshop "Beyond Language Access: Creating Multilingual Spaces Through Language Justice" during Pitt’s Diversity Forum 2024: Amplifying Our Voices Through Active Listening and Constructive Dialogue, on January 22, at 10 am ET.
Hosseini to Give Humanities Center Talk
Sahar Hosseini will be giving a talk as faculty fellow of the University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center on Thursday, January 25, 2024. Hosseini’s talk considers the centrality of the Zayanderud river to the Safavid capital Isfahan’s collective memory. This event will be hybrid. Learn more on the Humanities Center website.
Castillo Maldonado Named Humanities Center Fellow
HAA, Museum Studies, and Latin American Studies major Irene Sofía Castillo Maldonado was announced as one of the 2024 Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows. Castillo Maldonado will receive research support and guidance from the Humanities Center to further develop her project on colonial systems in the United States. Read more on the Humanities Center website.
Gretchen Bender and Mark Collins Win Humanities Center Co-Teaching Fellowship
Working with the Humanities Center's AY2025 theme of "Method?," Bender and Collins will be developing a new course, "What to Do? Environmental Crisis and Reparative Artistic Practices." Generations of scientists, writers, artists, and activists have worked to bring about change, only to confront denial and complacency. What can one person do? This course addresses these global issues by focusing on the local (Pittsburgh and the tri-state region) and the personal, and by bridging disciplinary modes too often cast as opposites: science and art.
Emily Mazzola Appointed Curator of Fitchburg Art Museum
Recent graduate Emily Mazzola (PhD 2023) has been appointed Curator of the Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts. Mazzola will bring her research expertise in gender, material culture and museology of American art to the museum’s collections and exhibition program.
Vuković Publishes in JCS
Vuk Vuković recently published an article in the Journal of Curatorial Studies. His article, “The Institutionalization of Video Art at the Museum of Modern Art,” examines key video art projects and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, and argues that the museum’s first study grant obtained from the Rockefeller Foundation not only expanded the exhibition and collection of video work but also laid the foundation for its institutionalization, which in turn exerted decisive effects on the subsequent history of video art.
Langmead Contributes to New Digital Humanities Volume
Alison Langmead recently published in the new University of Minnesota Press volume, What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom. In her chapter with Annette Vee, Langmead questions what can be gained by integrating DH into general education requirements for undergraduates. Read more about the book on the UMP website.
Tyquiengco Featured on Fanachu Podcast
Marina Tyquiengco (PhD 2021) recently appeared on a live episode of the Fanachu podcast to discuss her work in the museum world. Tyquiengco presently serves as the Ellen McColgan Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. View the livestream recording on the Fanachu Facebook page.
McCoy Presents at China Westward Conference
Michelle McCoy delivered a paper at the China Westward conference at Harvard University in October.
Hosseini Publishes in JSAH
Sahar Hosseini recently published an article in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Her article, “The Invisible Lake of Sa’ādat-ābād and the Safavid Architecture of Affect,” examines the role of bodies of water in a royal complex in premodern Isfahan, where the river became a site of architectural imagination.
Alex Taylor Writes for New Book on Pop Artist Allan D’Arcangelo
Recognized as a major Pop artist in his day, Allan D’Arcangelo (1930–1998) has yet to receive the critical reevaluation of painters like Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. Published by Rizzoli, this major monograph introduces new audiences to his iconic paintings, particularly his celebrated paintings of the highway.
Christopher Nygren Contributes to New Podcast Series
Season 2 of Genealogies of Modernity is a narrative podcast released as a limited series of Ministry of Ideas and supported by a Media Production Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each episode takes up a well-worn story about what it means to be modern and how we got here, and then challenges that narrative with recent humanities scholarship. Genealogies of Modernity illuminates lesser-known pathways to the present and unearths overlooked resources from the past for flourishing in the future.
Amrita Vinod Presents at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference
The Center for Philosophical Technologies (CPT) in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) at Arizona State University hosted the 2023 Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) last Saturday, October 28, first-year Ph.D student Amrita presented a paper titled “Knowing Open, Overflowing and Plural Subjects through Kaḷiyāṭṭaṁ of Malabar Coast, India ” based on her Architectural History and Theory masters thesis (Vinod, Amrita.
Paula Kupfer Presents Paper at University of Texas at Austin
On October 31st, PhD candidate Paula Kupfer presented "The Exotic Dominates, Which Is Regrettable’: Negotiating Foreignness in the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden” at the Center for Latin American Visual Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
Kathryn Carney Co-Facilitates GSA Working Group
This academic year, graduate student Kathryn Carney is co-organizing the Body Studies working group of the German Studies Association with historian Alice Weinreb. The group provides feedback on new scholarship concerning the changing politics of the body and its representations throughout German history. Read more about the German Studies Association on the GSA website.