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Alex Taylor Presents at Business History Conference

The annual Business History Conference in Providence, Rhode Island will include a paper from Alex Taylor on artists and the billboard lobby.

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Roberts Awarded Lyons Canadian Film Scholarship

Graduate student Emma C. Roberts was awarded The Jeffrey & Sandra Lyons Canadian Film Scholarship in support of research that will activate resources and collections in TIFF’s Film Reference Library. 

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Georgina Laube to present at the University of Szczecin, Poland

Georgina Laube's (HAA 2020) paper investigates if memorializing through personal spaces, as in Ashley Gilbertson's "Bedrooms of the Fallen," equals traditional war photography.

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Maxwell Gives Talk at Kent State University

Andrea Maxwell led a graduate student workshop and gave a public lecture titled, "Symbolic Violence and the Jew in Premodern Italian Art," at Kent State University

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Larson Publishes New Essay in Afterimage Collection

Graduate Ellen Larson (PhD 2022) has published the essay, “The Concrete Flux Of Cao Fei's 'Cosplayers,'” 

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Nygren to Give Talk at Miami University Humanities Center

Chris Nygren will give the talk, “Materials, Labor and Time: Toward an Ecology of Early Modern Art,” at Miami University. 

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VMW Hosts Teaching Art History with AI Workshop

Langmead and the Visual Media Workshop welcomed participants to Pittsburgh for a hands-on workshop focused on the dangers and opportunities presented by computational image generators.

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Josten to present at the Columbia University-ISLAA Colloquium

On Friday, February 9, Professor Jennifer Josten will present new research on contemporary art in the conference "Between Art and Archives" at Columbia University. 

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Castillo Maldonado Named Humanities Center Fellow

HAA, Museum Studies, and Latin American Studies major Irene Sofía Castillo Maldonado was announced as one of the 2024 Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows

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Hosseini to Give Humanities Center Talk

Sahar Hosseini will be giving a talk as faculty fellow of the University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center.

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