Siren Echoes conference poster

Media studies scholars visit campus for 'Siren Echoes' conference

<p>Scholars from Germany and the UK, as well as numerous U.S. universities, will visit campus Nov. 7-9 for the first media studies conference sponsored by <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/news/humanities-proposal-springs-radical-collaboration-effort">CIVIC</a> (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture), the provost’s <a href="http://provost.cornell.edu/academic-initiatives/radical-collaboration/">Radical Collaboration</a> initiative focused on the humanities and the arts.</p>

Cornell Gamelan ensemble

Indonesian Gamelan performances this week

<p>The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble presents two days of Indonesian performances at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art with visiting guest artists from Java and Bali. On Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m., guest artists Gusti Sudarta (Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Denpasar) and Darsono Hadiraharjo (SEAP Visiting Critic) will perform excerpts of traditional wayang (shadow puppetry), providing audiences a rare opportunity to experience both Balinese and Javanese forms of this vital art form.</p>

Ben Anderson

Professor wins art history book prize

<p><a href="https://arthistory.cornell.edu/benjamin-anderson">Benjamin Anderson's</a> monograph “Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art” has been awarded the <a href="https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/GouldPrizeWinner">2020 Karen Gould Prize in Art History</a> from the Medieval Academy of America, an award given each year for a distinguished book in the field of medieval art history. </p>

Ezra Cornell statue on the quad

Conference showcases Cornell’s broad approach to media

<p>A Media Studies Conference, “Media Objects,” will take place at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art next fall, postponed from this spring. With a focus on the distinctive approaches to the study of media, the conference will host speakers from a wide variety of disciplines. </p>

Artwork featuring beaded birds

Smithsonian gallery hosting work by Cornell’s Rickard

<p><a href="https://aap.cornell.edu/people/jolene-rickard">Jolene Rickard</a>, associate professor in the Department of Art (Architecture, Art and Planning) and the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies  (Arts and Sciences), has artwork currently on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C.</p>

Segment of wall on the Sardis acropolis

New lecture series introduces research at ancient Sardis

<p> Although not as well-known as the ruins of Athens or Rome, the remains of the ancient city of Sardis, capital of the Iron Age empire of Lydia in what is now Turkey, offer a wealth of clues to Greek, Roman, Byzantine and other cultural histories.</p>

Ezra Cornell statue on the quad

Einaudi-funded Ph.D. students think globally, act remotely

<p> Aparajita Majumdar, Ph.D. candidate in the field of history, spent six hours last summer hiking through the Khasi hills of eastern India to find one of the region’s famed living root bridges.</p><p> Ana Ozaki, Ph.D. candidate in the field of history of architecture and urban development, befriended her cab driver in Maputo, Mozambique, while investigating how race and climate meet in that country’s architecture.</p>

Lara Fresko Madra

Art history Ph.D. candidate wins Newcombe Fellowship

<p> Lara Fresko Madra, a doctoral candidate in the field of history of art, archaeology and visual studies, has been selected as a recipient of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.</p><p> Administered through the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the fellowship has been awarded to 23 recipients for the 2020-21 academic year.</p>

Dried up and cracking river bed

Grant to fund conference on climate change in South Asia

A Cornell-led international team of researchers has received a $65,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for its project, “The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia.”

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Andrew Ramage

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Andrew Moisey

I am interested in art history's relationship to science and metaphysics, and that colors my particular interest in the history of photography. I am fascinated when images of artists and scientists adopt new models to incorporate or spread new ideas about self, nature, and the pictorial acquisition of truth, untruth, experience, and value. There is a rich metaphysical story in the history and prehistory of photography and it forms the broad subject of my research.
My current book project,Before Photography, is about how European art evolved first- and third- person metaphysics after the birth of the concept of a captured view, a picture seen as being taken from a prior field of vision. The concept, it shows, emerged in Northern Europe, particularly in Dutch views, and eventually became marketed as if an empirical sample of the visible world in the work of Canaletto. By the nineteenth century, the captured view mixed third-person and first-person perspectives, thanks to theRückenfigur, our viewing double in the landscape, who in the book, in the first person, tells us all about his life in art and death by photography. Then, finally, it considers how photography’s mechanical first-person encounter with place has functioned as a barrier, though perhaps a penetrable one, to a “photographic world picture” in art—a worldscape that can capture underlying processes, much Bosch and Bruegel visualized long ago, before captured views existed.

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Sara Warner

Sara Warner (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Rutgers) is Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts. The current Director of Cornell's LGBT Studies Program, Sara is an affiliate faculty member in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexual StudiesProgram, American Studies,Africana Studies, and Visual Studies. Her book,Acts of Gaiety:LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure(University of Michigan Press 2012), received theOutstanding Book Award from the Association ofTheater in Higher Education(ATHE), an Honorable Mention for the Barnard Hewitt Award from the AmericanSociety for Theatre Research(ASTR), and was named a Lambda LiteraryAward finalist. Sara has published widely in journals andanthologies on theater and performance studies, queer aesthetics, second wave feminism, politics, prisons, and academic labor. Her cultural criticism can be found in media outlets such asTimeMagazineandHuffington Post.She is the Co-Associate Editor of the book series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance at the University of Michigan Press.

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Geoffrey Carter W Waite

Professor Waite is also in the Fields of Comparative Literature and Visual Studies. His teaching and research take a point of departure from Jane Ellen Harrison’s thesis, “The oldest things lie deepest and live longest” (Themis, 1912), that is, from interest in the afterlife of archaic and ancient thinking in modern and postmodern philosophical, literary, and visual production. His writing includes work on Althusser, Bataille, David Cronenberg, Marcel Detienne, Gadamer, Gramsci, Lionel Feininger, Freud, Heidegger, Hölderlin, Kôjin Karatani, Kleist, Lacan, Henri Lefebvre, Lenin, Marx, Nicole Loraux, Nietzsche, Schelling, Carl Schmitt, Spinoza, Leo Strauss, Velázquez, Aby Warburg, Wilhelm Worringer.

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Nancy P. Lin

Nancy P. Lin is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Studies. She specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese art and architecture with a particular interest in the relationship between art and urbanism. Studying contemporary Chinese art through a transregional perspective, her current book project, Art On-Site: Situating Global Contemporaneity in 1990s China, examines locally situated, yet globally oriented site-based art practices in China during the 1990s and early 2000s. It explores the aesthetic and socio-political stakes for how and why artists during this period began to work “on-site” in everyday urban spaces such as city streets, construction sites, and other unconventional locations. She is also at work on a series of projects exploring the history of performance art in China and East Asia. Incorporating materials from Cornell’s Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-garde Art, this project considers the documentary mediation of performance art and issues surrounding performative action’s (in)visibility, duration, and public impact. She co-curated the exhibition “Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China” at the Johnson Museum of Art in 2023. Her recent publications have been featured in Art Journal, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and other edited volumes and exhibition catalogues.

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Kaja Tally-Schumacher

Kaja’s research interests include ancient gardens and landscapes, environmental history, and issues pertaining to sustainability and resiliency in the ancient world and in contemporary archaeological practice. Her secondary area of interest includes nineteenth and twentieth century urbanism and architecture.

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Shirley Samuels

Shirley Samuels is the Picket Family Chair of the Literatures in English Department. She is working on a book called Haunted by the Civil War. She teaches at Cornell in several departments, including American Studies, English, History of Art and Visual Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her books include Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. (2019), The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln (2012), Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 (2012), Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War (2004); Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865 (2004); Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation (1996); and The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th Century America (1992). In addition to Cornell, she has taught at Princeton University, Brandeis University, and the University of Delaware. She has held fellowships from The American Council of Learned Societies, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Huntington Library.

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