This summer, three members of the History of Art & Visual Studies Department participated in the 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) in Lyon, France (June 23-28, 2024). Professor Ana Howie presented the paper “Interior Illuminations: Light, Space, and the Dressed Body in Early Modern Genoa” on the panel “Dressing Bodies, Dressing Spaces: Challenges and New Approaches to Textiles and Adornment (300-1600).” Doctoral students Juliana Fagua Arias and Leonardo Santamaría Montero participated in the panel “Materialities in motion from Latin America: production, networks, and immaterialities” with their papers “Silken Blossoms and Alpaca Threads: Transpacific Materiality in a Peruvian Embroidered Poncho” and “Material Culture and Visual Sovereignty of the K’iche’ Maya Communal Authorities of Totonicapán in Nineteenth Century Guatemala,” respectively.
CIHA 2024 Conference Program: https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/fr/programme/programme-scientifique
