Salah M. Hassan
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences Emeritus
Africana Studies and Research Center, History of Art and Visual Studies, Institute for Comparative Modernities
Penned by Encounter 3.25.22
Cécile Fromont"Penned by Encounter: Central Africans, Capuchin Friars and their Images in Early Modern Kongo and Angola"Friday March 25, 2:30pmFindley History of Art Lecture SeriesZoom LecturePlease register in advanceIn this talk, I consider a largely overlooked corpus of paintings about Kongo and Angola that Italian Capuchin...
Professors Jolene Rickard, Iftikhar Dadi, and Salah Hassan present at the March Meeting, Sharjah Art Foundation
The 14th edition of March Meeting, Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual convening of artists, curators and art practitioners to explore critical issues in contemporary art through panels, lectures and performances, takes place from 4 to 7 March 2022.The 14th edition of March Meeting is convened under the banner of The Afterlives of the Postcolonial as...
ARTMargins 10th Anniversary Roundtable Discussion - Feb 26, 2022, 10am EST
The contemporary art and critical theory academic journal ARTMargins celebrates its 10th anniversary. This roundtable brings together ARTMargins editors to discuss their journal as well as the challenges of academic art publishing more generally. ARTMargins is published by MIT Press, with administrative and financial support by the Department of...
PhD candidate Jessica Plant published in Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture
Jessica's article Hart as Rock and Light as Air: Stucco Ceilings in Roman Domestic Space was published in Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture; De Gruyter, 2022. The volume is part of the series Decor; Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy, available here. Jessica is currently an Associate Member of the American...
The Astronomer’s Milieu 3.15.22
Alena Williams"The Astronomer’s Milieu: Mount Hamilton and the Experimental Cinema of Charles and Ray Eames"Tuesday March 15, 4:45Visual Culture ColloquiumZoom LecturePlease register in advance In 1968, Charles and Ray Eames completed Lick Observatory, a short film of 35mm slides, asynchronous sound, musical soundtrack, and voice-...
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Ten A&S faculty honored with endowed professorships
These professorships continue the College’s priority to recognize faculty excellence and accomplishments.
Cheryl Finley
Associate Professor
Africana Studies and Research Center, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, History of Art and Visual Studies
Ksenia Un
Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art and Visual Studies
Archaeology Program, History of Art and Visual Studies
Maria Fernandez
Associate Professor
Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, History of Art and Visual Studies
Visualizing Black Feminist Ecologies 4.12.22
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 4:45pm Visual Culture Colloquium (VCC)Visualizing Black Feminist EcologiesDr. Chelsea Frazier Zoom LecturePlease register in advanceBy engaging visual culture, Dr. Chelsea Frazier articulates political ecologies that move beyond the limited correctives made available through the conventions of Western...
Iftikhar Dadi
John H. Burris Professor
Department Chair
History of Art and Visual Studies, Institute for Comparative Modernities