History of Art and Architecture

Past Events

Wed
Mar
27
2024

"Papered Leps" & Incidental Archives at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Deirdre Smith will present this week's colloquium on a collection of insects folded in scraps of paper focusing on the avenues of research available by close examination of the paper housing. 

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Mon
Mar
25
2024

The Matter of Families: Exhibiting African Art and Kinship in Dakar, 1966

Dr. Lauren Taylor, Assistant Professor of Art History at Penn State University, will present a talk on the first exhibition at the Musée Dynamique in Senegal. 

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Mon
Mar
25
2024

Dissertation Defense: Jacob Eisensmith

Jacob Eisensmith Dissertation Defense: "Anxieties and Influences: Italian Cultural Entanglements with ethnic Ottoman Empire, 1400-1600". 

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Fri
Mar
22
2024

Ruin and Reparation: (Dis)Repair in Art and Architectural History

Graduate Symposium hosted by the History of Art and Architecture Department at the University of Pittsburgh

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Thu
Mar
21
2024

“Is this the America of Ebony?” Magazines, Africa, and America

Dr. Leslie Wilson, associate director for Academic Engagement and Research at the Art Institute Chicago will present research on South African photographer Ernest Cole and African diasporic magazines. 

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Wed
Mar
20
2024

A Shelter, a Garden, and an Act of Refusal

Theodossis Issaias, Associate Curator of the Heinz Archiectural Center at CMOA, will present this week's colloquium 

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Mon
Mar
18
2024

Posing with the Dead: Rest in Peace T-shirts and Postmortem Visual Histories

Rikki Byrd, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University, will present on the the material culture of Rest in Peace (R.I.P.) T-shirts popularized in Black working-class communities

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Wed
Mar
06
2024

Revisioning the HAA Major

The Ad Hoc Committee for Revisioning the HAA Major will present a working draft of the proposed new HAA curriculum and solicit feedback from the HAA community.

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Mon
Mar
04
2024

Congo Logic: Contemporary Arts & Colonial Pasts

Dr. Elaine Sullivan, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, will present a lecture on contemporary art's role in addressing difficult colonial pasts 

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Wed
Feb
28
2024

Mapping the Stakes: The Antinuclear Artwork of Sharon Gilbert and Barbara Donachy

Isaiah Bertagnolli will present material from the “Mapping the Stakes” display at the Frick Fine Arts Library based on a chapter in his dissertation.

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