Please join us for a showcase of the dynamic work the Constellations Working Groups will be undertaking this year.
HAA’s Constellations model allows graduate students and faculty to work closely to develop projects, publications, and events through cross-cultural, cross-temporal theoretical lenses. These collaborations have previously led to establishing the peer-reviewed journal Contemporaneity, symposia, reading groups, site visits, and more.
“Decomposing Bodies to Data (after)Lives: Expanding Modes ofAcademic Research”
Alison Langmead, Aisling Quigley, and Chelsea Gunn
Race-ing the Museum: Moving Forward
Kirk Savage
Join us for a guided tour of the exhibition “Data (after)Lives” with guest curator Alison Langmead, on Tuesday September 27 at noon.
Additional Tuesday tours will be offered on October 4 and October 11 at noon.
Group meets at the University Art Gallery, in the Frick Fine Arts Building. Open to all, free, no reservations required.
For more information, contact uag@pitt.edu or 412-648-2423.
Speaker: Eric Dorfman, Director of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History and President of the International Council of Museums Committee for Museums and Collections of Natural History
Humanities Center Colloquium Events typically involve conversations around a pre-distributed piece of writing. You can download the piece of writing for this event here.
Identity studies, as an interdisciplinary constellation within the humanities, involves methods of inquiry constructed around subjectivity, positionality, intersectionality, humanness, and modes or forms of identification. In studying artistic and cultural history, production, and theory, we apply these methods in the interest of advancing our understanding of certain subject matter, and the stakes of identity for these subjects.
“‘Intending toward one another’ -- Thoughts on the Necessity for and Method of Teaching World Art”
Gretchen Bender
October 7–8, 2016
Liverpool John Moores University
The Johnson Foundation Auditorium
John Lennon Art and Design Building
Duckinfield Street
Liverpool L3 5RD
Please join us for a conversation that expands and complicates the themes present in Data (after)Lives, the current exhibition showing at the University Art Gallery. Aaron Henderson (Department of Studio Arts), Kare Joranson (University Library System), and Tracey Berg-Fulton (Carnegie Museum of Art) will initiate an inclusive discussion based on their reactions to the show and their relatopship to data in their work lives. The event will be followed by an informal reception where conversation can continue over light refreshments. Please RSVP by October 10th.
“Orange Portraiture as a Spatial Mechanism: Mapping the Court in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic”
Saskia Beranek