Columbia Art History Graduate Colloquium
The departmental community is invited to submit presentation proposals for the Art History Graduate Colloquium's spring series. We are actively searching for participants across all geographic and historical subfields and from all members of the post-undergraduate community (Master's and PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members). The Colloquium is a great opportunity to present work in progress and gain feedback from peers and faculty in the program.
The setting is informal, with your 20-30 minute presentation followed by a question-and-answer session. It's the perfect forum to test run a paper you're developing into a larger project such as an article, dissertation chapter, or conference talk. If you would like to submit a proposal or have further questions, please e-mail us at [email protected].
Note that the Colloquium is open only to affiliates of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and their guests.
All events are held in room 832 of Schermerhorn Hall unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2020
January 30, 6:30pm
Ashley Williams
"Fascism, the Body, and Art Deco at Rockefeller Center’s Palazzo d’Italia"
February 6, 6:30pm
Yeongik Seo
“Context of Directions: A Reconsideration on The Bodhisattva Fugen and Attendants from the Freer Gallery of Art”
February 13, 6:30pm
Professor Michael Waters
“Rethinking Reproduction: Copying and the Renaissance Architectural Print”
February 20, 6:30pm
Brian Wallace van Oppen
"Radiant Spectacle: Etruscan Candelabra and the Presentation of the Performing Body."
February 27, 6:30pm
Meng-Hsuan Lee
"Re-producing Colonial Modernity: Official Photo Album of the 1935 Taiwan Colonial Exposition."
March 5, 6:30pm
Rachel Hutcheson
“The Natural Color Event in Nineteenth Century Photography”
Colloquium presentations for the remainder of the semester have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Fall 2019
September 19, 6:10pm
Charlotte Gorant
"Nãgas in Early Buddhist Art: Fluidity and Framing Presence"
September 26, 6:10pm
Katherine Fein
"From Hand to Hand: Photography, Abolition, and the White Body"
October 10, 6:10pm
Katherine McCarthy
“Weaving Histories: Orality and Alternative Literacies in the Ancient Central Andes"
October 17, 6:10pm
Professor Michael Cole
"Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola."
October 24, 6:10pm
Virginia Girard
"Touching Light and Hearing Shadows: Darkness, Disorientation, and the Diorama"
October 31, 6:10pm
Whitney Kite
" 'Women Also Helped': The Legacy of Female Patronage in Luca Giordano's King Tiridates Before Saint Gregory the Armenian"
November 7, 6:10pm
Sophia Merkin
"Decolonizing Landscapes: Theory and Practice in the Paintings of John Walsh."
November 14, 6:10pm
Daniel Ralston
"Cardsharp: An American's Album of Cartes de Visite and the Rise of Modern Spanish Painting"
December 5, 6:10pm
Hannah Friedman
“Costumi un po’ licentiosetti: The Discourse of Dishonor in Giulio Mancini’s Biographies of Artists.”
Spring 2019
January 31, 6:10 pm
Ani Kodzhabasheva
“Living in the 'Shatterzone of Empires.' Architecture in Sofia After the Last Russo-Ottoman War, ca. 1878–1900”
February 7, 6:10 pm (note different location: 930 Schermerhorn)
Nina Horisaki-Christens
“Japanese Video and the Problem of Public Space: Video as a Discourse Formed in Translation”
February 14, 6:10 pm
Natasha Marie Llorens
“Fieldwork Notes from Paris and Algiers: At the Crossroads of Curatorial and Art Historical Research”
February 21, 5:30 – 9:00 pm
Cambridge-Columbia Symposium in Art History
Preview Session
Febraury 28, 6:10 pm
Mateusz Mayer
“George Romney's Portrait of David Hartley and the Principles of Civic Humanism (1783)”
March 7, 6:10 pm
Daria Melnikova, PhD
“Rescuing the Body in the Era of Image Politics: Hi Red Center's Performance Shelter Plan (1964)”
March 14, 6:10 pm
Steven Niedbala
“The Cell in the Garden: Prison Design in the Progressive Era”
March 28, 6:10 pm
Mikael Muehlbauer
“Inventing Late Antiquity in Medieval Ethiopia”
April 4, 6:10 (note different location: 930 Schermerhorn)
Ivana Dizdar
“Tanja Ostojić and Daniela Ortiz: From Celebration to Critique”
April 11, 6:10 pm - no Colloquium
April 18, 6:10 pm
Muge Arseven
“Reality and Representation: Depictions of Sacred Space in Greek Antiquity”
April 25, 6:10 pm
Lorenzo Vigotti
“Ilkhanid-Italian Relationship During the Trecento: Persian Medieval Prototypes for Brunelleschi’s Dome in Florence”
May 2, 6:10 pm
Emma Le Pouésard
“The Body in the Tusk: An Ecocritical Study”
May 9, 6:10 pm
Professor Zeynep Çelik Alexander
“The Homogeneous Empiricism of Kew”
Fall 2018
September 13, 6:15
Claire Dillon
“The Many Dimensions of a Work of Art: The Mantle of Roger II as a Case Study in Imperial Representation, Origin Stories, and the Formation of Specific Others”
September 20, 6:15
Leah Werier
“Disrupting the Department Store: Gene Moore’s Shop Windows as Queer Spaces in Public Places”
September 27, 6:15
Diana Mellon
“Health, Bathing, and Site-Specificity in the Illuminated De Balneis Puteolanis”
October 4, 6:15
Rachel Hutcheson
“Found Footage and Surrealist Cinema: Len Lye as Interlocutor”
October 11, 6:15
Heather Woolley
“Modern Acheiropoieta: The Veil of Veronica in the Age of the Jacquard Loom”
October 25, 6:15
Zoe Dostal
“Alliances, Grievances, and Failed Ambitions in Henry Singleton’s Royal Academicians”
November 1, 6:15
Ianick Takaes de Oliveira
“A Tract for the Times: Edgar Wind’s 1960 Reith Lectures”
November 8, 6:15
Nicholas Croggon
“Earthscore”
November 15, 6:15
Katherine Fein
“Indexical Portraiture and Embodied Biography in Harriet Hosmer’s Clasped Hands”
November 29, 6:15
Angel Jiang
“Clear Voices: Ruins, Fragments and Architectural Discourse in Early Modern and Modern Spain”
December 6, 6:15
Teresa Soley
“Savages and Salvation: Wild Men in Early Modern Portuguese Tomb Sculpture”
December 13, 6:15
Professor Gregory Bryda
“The Spiritual Woods of Gothic Germany”
Spring 2016
January 21, 6:15
Isabella Lores-Chavez
“A Brush With Darkness: Positioning the Male Artist in Le Corbeau”
January 28, 6:15
Adam Harris Levine
“The Flemish Face: Brabantine Bust Reliquaries in their Renaissance Spanish Contexts”
February 11, 6:15
Daria Foner
“Refortifying Sixteenth-Century Rome: Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane's Designs for the Porta Santo Spirito”
February 18, 6:15
Lynn Catterson
“Stefano Bardini and Wilhelm Bode: A Case of Canon Contamination”
March 24, 6:15
Sophia D'Addio
“The Lives and Afterlives of Tintoretto's Organ Shutters”
March 31, 6:15
Miriam Cera
“History of Architecture between Two Continents: From Spain (and Italy) to Mexico”
April 7, 6:15
Professor Matthew McKelway
“The Birth of Kabuki in 17th-Century Japanese Folding Screens”
April 14, 6:15
Julia Vazquez
“Mercury, Reconsidered”
April 21, 6:15
Natasha Marie Llorens
“’Let's be civil, we are all Gentlemen here’: The Battle of Algiers and its Discourses of Violence”
April 28, 6:15
Francesca Marzullo
“Andrea del Castagno and Christ's Tomb”
May 5, 6:15
Professor Stephen Murray
“Life of a Gothic Cathedral: Notre-Dame of Amiens, 1220–1530”
Fall 2015
September 24, 6:15
Mikael Muehlbauer
“Image and Reality in Fin-de-siècle Ethiopia: Objects from the Hoffman Philip Collection”
October 8, 6:15
Siddhartha V. Shah
“Romancing the Stone: Victoria, Albert, and the Koh-i-Noor Diamond”
October 15, 6:15
Emogene Cataldo
“Architecture of the Ephemeral: Convents and Destruction in Medieval Flanders”
October 22, 6:15
Liat Naeh
“Branding Shared Elite Identity: The Bone and Ivory Inlays of the Bronze Age Levant”
October 29, 6:15
Joseph Woldman
“The Struggle is Real: Herakles and Caeretan Hydriai”
November 12, 6:15, Schermerhorn 612
Maryan Ainsworth
“Van Eyck's Diptych Reconsidered”
November 19, at 6:15 pm
Maggie Cao
“Trompe-l'oeil and Financial Risk in the Maritime Eighteenth Century”
December 3, 6:15
Professor Vidya Dehejia
“A Master Bronze Sculptor in Chola India and 10,000 Pearls to Adorn a Bronze”
Spring 2015
January 22, 6:15
Adam Harris Levine
“An Ursuline Parable at Charles V's Itinerant Court”
January 29, 6:15
Colby Chamberlain
“The Entrepreneurial Avant-Garde: George Maciunas’s Organization of Fluxus”
February 5, 6:15
Emily Margaret Cook
“The Metallic Marbles: Material Emulation in Roman Sculpture”
February 12, 6:15
Stephen Zawodzinski
“Insurrection and Restitution: Kingly Authority and Courtly Unity in the Retablo de la Sagrada Forma of King Charles II”
February 19, 6:15
Gabriella Szalay
“Double-Take: The Renaissance Print in Eighteenth-Century Germany”
March 4, 6:30
Eleni Mantzourani
“Hybrid and Monstrous Creatures in Minoan Iconography”
March 12, 6:15
Andrea Vazquez de Arthur
“The Expression of Human Identity on Wari Faceneck Vessels”
March 26, 6:15
Diana Mellon
“Handling and Inversion in Medieval European Aquamaniles”
April 2, 6:15
Clare Kobasa
“Messina in Print: The City In and Around the Book”
Clare Kobasa
April 9, 6:15
Sofia Gans
“Using New Media in the Art Humanities Classroom”
April 16, 6:00, Schermerhorn 612
Marsely Kehoe
“Black and White: Picturing Curaçao’s Dutch Architectural Heritage”
April 23, 6:15
Arathi Menon
“Malabar Hipped and Gabled: An Atypical Sacred Style”
April 30, 6:15
Matthew Neil Peebles
“Promachos Revisited: The Fighting Athena of the Panathenaic Amphorae”
May 7, 6:15
Natasha Marie Llorens
Working Title: Revolutionary Images/Political Images: A Comparative Analysis
Fall 2014
September 11, 6:15
Ariel Cohen
"The Land of Creation and Renewal: Ancient and Modern Roots of Eretz Israeli Art in the 1920s"
September 25, 6:15
Beth Gollnick
“Subversive Light: Mary Corse and the Light and Space Movement”
October 2, 6:15
Nina Horisaki-Christens
“A Troubled Landscape: Political Subjectivity in Late 1960s and Early 1970s Japanese Photography”
October 9, 6:15
Bailey Barnard
“Revival Styles in the Crescent City: Local Peculiarities and National Trends”
October 23, 6:15
Joseph Ackley
“Precious Metal in the Western Medieval Church Treasury, ca. 800–1200”
October 30, 6:15
Professor Anne Higonnet
"Why Your PhD Will Make the World a Better Place"
November 6, 6:15
Crystal Migwans
"Porcupine Quillwork and Cottager Colonialism: The Elinor Ostrom Collection of Anishinaabe Art"
November 13, 6:15
Siddhartha V. Shah
“Plagued by Hunger and Thirst: Emaciated Goddesses in Hindu Art”
November 20, 6:15
Michael Fowler
“The Archaeology of Human Sacrifice in Greek Antiquity: The Case of Anemospilia Revisited”
Spring 2014
February 6, 6:15
Leah Pires
“’Objects to Theoretically Wear, Carry, Pull, or Wave’: Paul Thek in Context”
February 20, 6:15
Armin Bergmeier
“’Those miracles we are accustomed to witness every day’: Imagining and Experiencing Divine Visions in Early Byzantium”
March 6, 6:15
Gabriella Szalay
“Van Eyck, Vulcanism and the Chemistry of Time”
March 13, 6:15
Marta Becherini
“Objects of Curiosity, Vectors of Knowledge: Indian Paintings in Early Modern European Collections”
April 3, 6:15
Rebecca Wolff
“Uli and the Artistic Philosophy of Uche Okeke”
April 10, 6:15
Alex Weintraub
“Di/visible Pairs, or the Unusual Aesthetics of Doubling in Mary Cassatt’s The Loge”
Fall 2013
September 19, 6:15
Carrie Cushman
“Inside Me, The Earthquake”
October 3, 6:15
Vivian Crockett
“’I am the Mangueira’: Marginalidade and Indentificatory Limits in Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés”
October 24, 6:15
Adam Harris Levine
“Re-Assembling the Pieces: Composite Techniques in Gothic Ivories”
November 4, 6:15
Siddhartha Shah
“The Evolution of Tantric Art: On the Artistic Genius of the Newars”
November 21, 6:15
Caitlin Beach
“Meta Warrick Fuller, Mary Turner, and the Memory of Mob Violence”
December 5, 6:15
Julia Vazquez
“Recto/Vesro: Preliminary Thoughts on the Rokeby Venus”
Spring 2013
February 21, 6:15 p.m.
Rachel Boyd
"From Futurism to the Trecento: Carlo Carrà and Giotto"
February 28, 6:15 p.m.
Round table event
Columbia-Cambridge Symposium preview session
March 7, 5:30 p.m.
612 Schermerhorn Hall
Professor Michael Cole
"Leonardo against Nature"
March 14, 6:15 p.m.
Julia Siemon
"Pontormo's Portrait of Carlo Neroni"
March 28, 6:15 p.m.
Lorenzo Vigotti
"Daily Life in a Merchant's Home in 1390s Prato"
April 4, 6:15 p.m.
Sofia Gans
"The Shrine of St. Sebaldus: Structuring Salvation in the Early Northern Renaissance"
April 11, 6:15 p.m.
Lindsay Cook
"Targeting Reims"
April 18, 6:15 p.m.
Megan McCarthy
"Contemporary German Art [1909]: Curating Transatlantic Identity at the Metropolitan"
April 25, 6:15 p.m.
Chun-Yi Tsai
"Drunkards and Country Bumpkins on Parade: Metamorphoses of the Demonic in 13th-Century Zhong Kui Procession Paintings"
May 2, 6:15 p.m.
Professor Anne Higonnet
"On Writing in Several Ways from within the University"
Fall 2012
September 27, 6 p.m.
Natasha Marie Llorens
"The Butcher Boys: Pictures of Crisis"
October 4, 6:15 p.m.
Gillian Young
"An Audience is Divided: Ben Patterson's First Symphony"
October 11, 6:15 p.m.
Emily Cook
"Images, Ornament, and Liminality in the Reliefs of the Ara Pacis Augustae"
October 18, 6:15 p.m.
Anna Ratner Hetherington
"Michelangelo in Judgment"
October 25, 6:15 p.m.
Barbara Preisig
"Campaigning Conceptual Art. How Artists' Ephemera Contributed to the Advertising and Media Culture of the 1960's"
November 1, 6:15 p.m.
Professor Vidya Dehejia
"The Unfinished: Indian Stone Carvers at Work"
November 8, 6:15 p.m.
Julia Vazquez
"On the Limits of the Floor Plan: Philostratus the Elder, Lehmann-Hartleben, and the 'Imaginary Museum'"
November 15, 6:15 p.m.
Professor Stephen Murray
"Plotting Gothic"
November 29 6:15 p.m.
Anna Seastrand
"'Iconic Space?': Murals and Movement in the South Indian Temple"
Spring 2012
February 9
Julia Vazquez
"Holbein, Wedigh, and Flat: 'Ekphrastic Failure' and the Art of Hans Holbein"
Februrary 16
Sonia Coman
"Layering the Past: Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun's Madame de Staël as Corinne"
Februrary 23
Rob Fucci
"Rembrandt's Changing Impressions"
March 1
Robert Wiesenberger
"Mixed Media: Muriel Cooper, MIT, and the Bauhaus Book"
March 22 (Location change: 612 Schermerhorn)
Jessica Garrett
"Michelangelo and Raphael: Drawing, Writing and Building After Antiquity"
April 5
Leah Pires
"The Paradox of Institutionalized Experimentation: On the Tension Between Open Forms and Disciplinary Frameworks in Franz Erhard Walther's 1. Werksatz"
April 19
Professor Matthew McKelway
"Rosetsu's Red Cliffs: Landscape, Emotion, and Eighteenth-Century Kyoto"
Fall 2011
October 27
Sophia D'Addio
"Hearing Hellfire, Seeing Sound: Visual Cacophony in the Renaissance"
November 3
Prof. Francesco de Angelis
"Dining with the Other: Images from the Odyssey in Roman Contexts"
November 10
SeungJung Kim
"Concepts of time in Greek Art"
Fall Finale, November 17
Participants include Prof. Keith Moxey, Andrew Finegold, and SeungJung Kim
Roundtable on Visual and Pictorial Time
Spring 2011
February 17
Charles Kang
The Work of Blood in Japanese Prints
February 24
Michaela de Lacaze
Hélio Oiticica's Cosmococas
March 3
Sarah Schaefer
Gustave Doré's Biblical Scene-o-rama
March 10
Mark Watson
Re-imagining Globalization: Indigenous Justice and Alan Michelson's Third Bank of the River
March 24
Lorenzo Vigotti
The House of The Merchant of Prato, 1380-1410
March 31
Duma Masilela
"Set ci bir": Mediating Modernity through Artistic Agency in Dakar
April 7
Emily Liebert
Classifications: Eleanor Antin's Conceptual Art
April 14
Adam Eaker
Anonymity in the Studio
April 21
Kent Minturn
Clyfford Still and Posterity
May 5
Professor Elizabeth Hutchinson
Osceola's Calicoes
Fall 2010
September 23
Stephanie O'Rourke
Registers of Visibility and l'empire de la mort in Nineteenth-Century Paris
September 30
Tina Rivers
Mediation, Hallucination, and Assassination: Peter Whitehead's The Fall and the Politics of Perception in the 1960s
October 7
Marta Becherini
The Dancing Scenes of the Sumtsek Temple, Alchi: Myriad Inspirations in Medieval Ladakh
October 14
Sally King
Mourning and Matronage: The Collection of Susan Dwight Bliss (1882-1966)
October 21
Yates McKee
Critical Regionalism, Critical Climate Change: Field Notes from Southeastern Ohio and Beyond
October 28
Colby Chamberlain
Ziggurats for America
November 4
Professor Jonathan Reynolds
"Uncanny, Hyper-modern Japaneseness": Okamoto Tarô and the Search for Prehistoric Modernism
November 11
William Helfrecht
Collaborative Objects: Cunningham, Rauschenberg, Johns
November 18
Susan Wager
Madame de Pompadour's Indiscreet Jewels
December 2
Professor Stephen Murray
A Tale of Two Cathedrals
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