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Sam Rose deposited Interpreting Art in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoHow do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Call for Book Chapters: Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoChapter Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 December 2022
Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols
Book edited by Dr. Sonia D. Andraş (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)As Vogue Paris, the only edition containing a city name, became Vogue France, the…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic EAHN 2024 Athens – Call for Session and Roundtable Proposals in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months ago“Call for Session and Roundtable Proposals
The European Architectural History Network is delighted to announce that its next biannual meeting will take place at the NTUAthens School of Architecture, 19-23 June 2024.
In accordance with the long-standing mission of EAHN, the meeting aims at increasing the visibility of the discipline of a…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Ph.D. Funding (Manual of Therapeutic Architecture) in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months ago“Ph.D. Funding
Manual of Therapeutic Architecture
PhD Position for the research project ‘Manual of Therapeutic Architecture’ at Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (LOCI), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
For centuries, epidemics have been disrupting the lives of human beings. In the absence of, and wh…[Read more]
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Nikos Pegioudis deposited The Redundant Avant-Garde: Walter Benjamin and the Intelligentsia in the Age of Its Disappearance in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoWalter Benjamin had much to say about the intelligentsia, from vicious reviews such as “Left-Wing Melancholy” to the more programmatic essays “Author as Producer” and the Artwork essay. But while the specific allegiances, the “strategies” in the literary battle have been plotted with great precision, a larger debate in which these texts repre…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited The Auschwitz Memorial Museum and the Case of the Gypsy Portraits in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoA unique dispute over ownership rights to artwork in the case of the Auschwitz Memorial Museum vs. former camp prisoner Dinah Gottliebova Babbitt illuminates underlying moral questions about the Holocaust and post-Holocaust culture.
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Jennifer Komar Olivarez started the topic Digital Interiors Session 2 recording and Digital Humanities Roundtable June 28 in the discussion
SAH Community on SAH Commons 3 years, 7 months agoFrom Paula Lupkin:
HIG Folk,
HIG’s Emerging Scholars Symposium on Digital Interiors, concluded on Friday June 17, was brilliantly conceived, organized, and led by Lauren Drapala, Laura Jenkins, Vanessa Vanden Berghe and Michelle Jackson-Bennett. Recordings of both panels are now available for viewing through the SAH Connects website.
The…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited War Culture and the Contest of Images (Introduction) in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoWar Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, video games, reenactment, and social media images.…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Dislodged from History, Confronted by Walls: Picturing Migration as a Global Emergency in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines select visual representations of refugees and migrants as embodied subjects in photography, art, and video. It focuses on American asylum politics and explores the questions of free movement, the right to have rights, and the ethics and efficacy of border walls. I argue that the catastrophe of global forced displacement makes…[Read more]
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Jennifer Komar Olivarez started the topic HIG Program – Digital Interiors: Emerging Scholars Symposium June 10 and June 17 in the discussion
SAH Community on SAH Commons 3 years, 8 months agoFree and open to the public. The symposium will be recorded and video will be available online after the events.
This symposium, sponsored by the SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG), will bring together Emerging Scholars and early-career professionals from across the globe to discuss digitality in relation to the study and practice of…[Read more]
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Özkan Karaca deposited Tarihin İz Dokunduğu ve Ses Verdiği Güzergah İpek Yolu in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoTarih boyunca kentler, kültür ve medeniyetlerin doğduğu, geliştiği ve yayıldığı yerler olmuştur. Kentler, tarihsel süreçte insanların çeşitli gereksinimlerinin ürünü olarak sürekli bir gelişme göstermiştir. Bu gelişme sürecinde hem insanlığın birikiminin gelecek kuşaklara taşıyıcısı, hem de taşıdığı uygarlık birikimi ile insanoğlunun geleceğini şe…[Read more]
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Anna-Marie Kroupova started the topic CFP: Belvedere Research Journal, First Issue in the discussion
Art History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoWe are inviting the first round of submissions to the newly founded Belvedere Research Journal (BRJ), a peer-reviewed, open access e-journal. We seek articles that shed new light on the visual culture of the former Habsburg Empire and Central Europe broadly defined from the medieval period to the present day. We especially welcome contributions…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The Moon Card of the Tarot Deck May Reprise an Ancient Amuletic Design Against the Evil Eye in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis paper proposes a novel source for – or at least influence on – the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design aga…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic National Symposium: Yo! Modernism: The View from Philadelphia in the discussion
SAH Community on SAH Commons 3 years, 9 months agoNational Symposium: Yo! Modernism: The View from Philadelphia
(The 2022 National Symposium is a collaboration of Docomomo US and Docomomo US/Philadelphia)
May 31 – June 5, 2022
Philadelphia, PA
“ Yo! Modernism! In the Philadelphia region, ‘yo’ is a colloquialism used to get someone’s attention quickly. It’s a phrase without pretense, and when…[Read more]
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Jennifer Komar Olivarez started the topic HIG Guide to SAH Conference 2022 in the discussion
SAH Community on SAH Commons 3 years, 9 months agoFor those of you attending the SAH 2022 Conference next week, I attach a guide compiled by the HIG Events and Conferences Committee to highlight sessions of interest to HIG members.
All best,
Jennifer Olivarez
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Jennifer Komar Olivarez started the topic SAH HIG Call for Papers – HIG-organized session for SAH 2023 in the discussion
SAH Community on SAH Commons 3 years, 9 months agoSAH-HIG-The Historic Interiors Affiliate Group, invites its members and scholars of medieval art and architecture to submit proposals for its second HIG-organized session at the Society of Architectural Historians in Montreal in April 2023. Its focus, on material culture and medieval church interiors, expands our group’s consideration of the hi…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic “Thresholds 50” in the discussion
SAH Community on SAH Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThresholds 50: The Exhibition
On view April 22-May 18, 2022
MIT Keller Gallery 7-408“ On the occasion of its anniversary issue, Thresholds 50: The Exhibition invites readers to join the editorial team of Thresholds 50: Before | After to look backwards and forwards at pasts, futures, and present possibilities. Featuring new research, creative i…[Read more]
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Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Concrete in Switzerland, Histories from the Recent Past in the discussion
SAH Community on SAH Commons 3 years, 9 months agoConcrete in Switzerland, Histories from the Recent Past
Edited by Salvatore Aprea, Nicola Navone, Laurent Stalder, and Sarah Nichols
April 2022
The University of Chicago Press, distributed for EPFL
” A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss architectural archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in…[Read more]
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