Visual Activism Symposium

Julia Bryan-Wilson co-convenes the "Visual Activism" Symposium presented by the International Association for Visual Culture and SFMOMA series of events.

Friday, March 14, 2014
9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 15, 2014
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Location:
Brava Theater Center

2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110

 Professor Emeritus Peter Selz received the 2014 University of Chicago Professional Achievement Award. Created in 1967, the Professional Achievement Award recognizes outstanding achievement in any professional field. The award honors those alumni whose achievements in their vocational fields have brought distinction to themselves, credit to the University, and real benefit to their communities.

The volume Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas, to which our faculty member Lisa Trever contributed an essay on late eighteenth-century tomb illustrations, is being awarded the Association for Latin American Art's annual book award on February 12, 2014, at the College Art Association meeting in Chicago. This award, supported by the Arvey Foundation, is for the best scholarly book published on the art of Latin America from the Pre-Columbian era to the present.

Julia Bryan-Wilson is currently in residence at The Courtauld Institute as the Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor.   The visiting professorship is designed for scholars of American art whose work plays a defining role in the disciplines of art and architectural history and conservation. Professor Bryan-Wilson will be sharing her research with The Courtauld community formally (through lectures and seminars) and informally.

Professor Margaretta Lovell  has been awarded the College Art Association's prestigious award for Distinguished Teaching of Art History.  She will receive her award at the Convocation of the 2014 College Art Association meetings in Chicago this February.  Congratulations!

Jason Hosford, one of our Digital Curators, has been elected Chair of the Northern California chapter of the Visual Resources Association.  The VRA is dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management especially within educational and cultural heritage environments.  Jason's election to chair our local chapter of the VRA after just a year in the profession is an honor for him and for our department.  Congratulations, Jason!

Visual Culture and British India, History of Art 192F.2

This seminar, taught by the Department's visiting British art specialist Imogen Hart, engages with recent groundbreaking scholarship in the field of art and the British Empire, focusing on visual material relating to British India in the nineteenth century. See the rest of the description here. 

Professor Andrew Stewart has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.  This honor testifies to the "exceptionally high regard in which [he is] held by the Humanities community in Australia."  Congratulations!

PhD candidate Will Coleman was awarded the Second Annual Sir Denis Mahon Essay Prize for unpublished work on an early modern topic by a scholar under 30. Will will receive a £1,000 prize and a trip to the U.K. to present his winning essay, "'To live in accord with nature': Rubens's Houses and the Construction of Neostoic Leisure," at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, on November 8 of this year. Congratulations, Will! 

Update 5:45 p.m., October 1, 2013:  We expect to re-open the Department office at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 2.  Power is being restored to the Library and other affected buildings (information here).  Update 6:40 a.m., October 1, 2013:  Doe Library is still without power and the Department will be closed until further notice.  Classes may resume as power has been restored in other buildings, incuding Moffitt Library.  Please contact your instructor for more information.  10:06 p.m., September 30, 2013:  A Berkeley campus evacuation is in effect and the department office will be closed until further notice.  Please see the campus website for more information. Contact your instructor directly for updates about class meetings, office hours, etc.