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Recent Graduate Student Achievements and Publications
2007-2008
- Cristina Albu participated at the Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA) in Melbourne, Australia, where she presented a a paper on "Problematics of Postcolonial Dislocation in the Case of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest" in the session entitled "New Museums."
- Shalmit Bejarano published "The Widow's Tears and the Soldier's Dream: Gender and Japanese Wartime Visual Culture" in: Kowner, Rotem (ed.) Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5: Centennial Perspectives (London: Global Oriental, 2007), pp. 159-184.
Bejarano presented "Lovers in the Rice-field: Reexamining Opposition in a Harunobu Print" at the Princeton grad conference "The Art of Opposition," February 16, 2008. - Yanli Chen published a translation in Chinese of "Modernity and Civilizational Difference" by Professor Naoki Sakai at Cornell University, in Reflections: Chinese Modernities as Self-conscious Cultural Ventures, Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Brianne Cohen was awarded the Austrian Nationality Room Scholarship for summer 2008.
Cohen's "Hirschhorn's Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress: Imaginging Alternative Forms of Political Affilation” will bepublished in Envisionings, a SUNY Binghamton conference publication. - Kate Dimitrova's MA thesis was accepted for publication. "Class, Sex, and the Other: The Representation of Peasants in a Late Medieval Tapestry Set" is forthcoming in Viator: Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 38, no. 2, 2007.
- Marion Dolan will be teaching three courses (Intro to Art, World Cities, and Sacred Architecture) in spring 2008 with the Semester at Sea program.
- Julia Finch received the Austrian Room Committee Scholarship from Pitt's Nationality Rooms program. She used this award to research medieval illuminated manuscripts and participate in an internship with Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Vienna.
- Courtney Long presented "Mariology and Monumental Sculpture on the West Façade of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris" in the panel "(North)west and East: Holy Symbol, Holy Word" at Vagantes 2008: Graduate Student Medieval Conference hosted by the Ohio State University February 28-March 2.
- Sheri Lullo was awarded the 2007 China Times Cultural Foundation Young Scholar Award. The China Times Cultural Foundation promotes the study of Chinese culture and community through language education and other scholarly discourse.
Lullo presented “Beauty in Han Dynasty China (ca. 206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) and Ancient Cultures of the West: A Comparative Analysis” at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America on January 4th in the panel "East Meets West: China and the Outside World,” organized by Kathy Linduff. - Karla Huebner presented “Prague Strategies: Toyen, Feminism, and the Czech Avant-garde” at the Annual CAA Conference in Dallas-Fort Worth, February 2008.
Huebner presented “Surrealism Comes to Me in a Dream: The Proto-Surrealist Erotica of Styrsky, Nezval, and Toyen.” at the Pitt Grad Expo on March 4, 2008.
Huebner will be presenting “First Republic Representations of Women” in April, 2008 at the annual Czech Workshop.
At the Berkshire Women's History Conference in June 2008, Huebner will present "Girl, Trampka, nebo Zaba? The Czechoslovak New Woman." - Annah Kellogg-Krieg, with Itohan Osayimwese, had the panel proposal “German Visual Culture and the Non-Western World During the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic” accepted for the 62nd annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in April, 2009 in Pasadena, CA.
Kellogg-Krieg will present a paper on architect Christoph Hehl and the Crown of Roses Basilica in Berlin at the Association of the Historians of Nineteenth Century Art's fifth annual graduate student symposium at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City on March 21.
Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past (Paul Jaskot and Gavriel Rosenfeld, editors), for which Kellogg-Krieg contributed an article on the city of Quedlinburg, will be coming out with University of Michigan Press in March, 2008. - Rebekah Perry's paper "Death and Devotion in Renaissance Venice: Giorgione's Boy with an Arrow and the Cult of Saint Sebastian" was published in Athanor (volume 26, January 2008, pp. 15-21).
- Cornelie Piok-Zanon was awarded a SAH Graduate Student Annual Meeting Fellowship to deliver a paper at the Society of Architectural Historian's 61st Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, April 23-27, 2008. The paper is titled “It's Not All Greek to Me: Attalid Identity and the Creation of the Pergamene Style,” and will be part of a panel on “Civic Identities in Greek and Roman Architecture from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period.”
- Leslie Wallace is the 2007 recipient of the Nationality Rooms John T. Tsui award. Leslie will use this award ($4000) to travel to China this summer.
Wallace presented “The Hunting Motif and the Spiritualizing of Outsider Lifestyles in Han China” at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America on January 4th in the panel "East Meets West: China and the Outside World,” organized by Kathy Linduff.
Wallace will present “The Qin Legal Texts from Longgang and Royal Hunting Parks in Early China” in the “Society and Economy in Early Imperial China: New Insights from Recently Excavated Qin and Han Legal Manuscripts” panel at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Atlanta on April 4. - Mandy Jui-man Wu, with Kathy Linduff, published "The Construction of Identity: Remaining Sogdian in Eastern Asia in the 6th Century," in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference October 27-28, 2005, Jorunal of Indo-European Studies, Monograph Series NO. 52. Karlene Jones-Bley, Martin E. Huld, Angela Della Volpe, and Miriam Robbins Dexter (eds.).