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What can 16th-century India teach us about 21st-century California? Sugata Ray’s book Climate Change and the Art of Devotion explores the impacts of climate change on art, architecture, and religion in northern India during the repeated monsoon failures of the 16th through 19th centuries....Read more about Sugata Ray’s book ‘Climate Change and the Art of Devotion’ explores the impacts of climate change

Congratulations to the members of the Class of 2023 who participated in our Commencement ceremony!

I am delighted to share that my student, Hana Kozuka, has been selected as a winner for the Charlene Conrad Liebeau Research Prize. Hana was a student in my R1B from last semester, "Bodily Possession: The Collection Impulse and the Origins of Modern Medical Museums in the Western World...Read more about Charlene Conrad Liebeau Research Prize

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Painting the Inhabited Landscape, Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America (2023). From the Penn State University Press website: The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to...Read more about New Publication by Margaretta M. Lovell

When Alice Xie moved from China to California as a teenager, she experienced major culture shock. She understood the words people spoke, but conversations were still hard to follow. She often felt isolated and underestimated.

Through art, Xie found a way to explore and communicate about...Read more about How art history and statistics helped a graduating student understand herself

5:30 pm | 4/18/2023 | 308A Doe Library

Dr. Lisa Pieraccini: History of Art Lecturer, Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology Affiliate Faculty; Program Coordinator for the M. Del Chiaro Center for Ancient Italian...Read more about "Colonization and Indigeneity: Etruscan Pasts and Native American Futures"

12:00 pm | 4/19/2023 | 10 Stephens Hall

Professor M. M. Lovell

May 2 2:00-5:00 308 A Doe Library

Refreshments

Please Bring and Wear a Mask

Frederik Brauner, Architecture

Elizabeth Fair, Art History

Leah Grams, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology

Emily Kang, Art History

...Read more about Judith Stronach Graduate Travel Seminar in Art History Spring 2023 Symposium: Material Culture and Historic Preservation Workshop at a Seventeenth-century Manor House in Rural Spain

1:00 pm | 4/15/2023 | CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS TIMKEN HALL, 1111 8TH ST SAN FRANCISCO | Until 4:30 pm | 4/15/2023

12:00 pm | 4/12/2023 | BAMPFA | Until 5:00 pm | 7/30/2023

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Darcy’s new book, Creole. Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century (2022).

From Penn State University Press: This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of “Creole,” a label...Read more about New publication by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

5:00 pm | 4/12/2023 | BAMPFA

4/19/2023 | 12:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Henrike Lange