Career Day – April 10th
What can you do with a degree in art or architectural history?
The Art History Association and the Department of History of Art and Architecture present:Career Day
Tuesday, April 10th
6:00-7:30PM, CAS Room 200
Professionals from the academic and museum world will discuss possible career paths. And, as an added bonus, learn about BU’s new Honors Program in the History of Art and Architecture
Speakers include:
Susanne Gänsicke, Conservator, Conservation and Collections Management, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Cynthia Becker, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University
Jeff Klug, Program Director and John J. Aslanian, Assistant Director, Student Life & Recruitment, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Refreshments will be provided.
Questions?
Contact Cynthia Becker at cjbecker@bu.edu or Brittany Ham at bham@bu.edu
Undergraduate Art History Symposium – April 14th
The Visual Culture Consortium, Boston is proud to host The Fourth Annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium at the Museum of Fine Arts.
The Fourth Annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium will be held on Saturday, April 14th at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (please see the attached flier). This symposium brings together undergraduate students from across the area to present their research on a diverse array of topics relating to art history and visual culture.
Seeking to foster interaction between young scholars studying at undergraduate institutions in the Greater Boston area, this symposium will bring together students from across the region to present their research on a diverse array of subjects relating to Art History, Visual Culture and their related contexts.
A series of 15-minute presentations will be followed by opportunities for questions and discussion.
The symposium will be held at the MFA (Remis Auditorium) Sunday April 14th from 1:00-4:45. Opening remarks will be made by Jen Mergel (Senior Curator of Contemporary Art). This event is free and open to the public. For further information, contact Emily Gephart at emily.gephart@smfa.edu
AMNESP Lecture Series Event – April 2nd
On Monday, April 2 at 5:30pm- Professor Charles Lindholm of Boston University’s Department of Anthropology and Boston University’s Professor of American Material Culture William Moore will speak on a panel titled, Imperialism, Sports Culture & Tourism.
The event will be held in CAS 200 and will be followed by a reception with food and drinks from Whole Foods.
Imperialism, Sports Culture and Tourism
Monday, April 2, 5:30pm
CAS 200 / 725 Commonwealth Avenue
Charles Lindholm, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
“Adventure, Danger, and Authenticity”
&
William Moore, Associate Professor of American Material Culture, Boston University
“Gidget and the Waikiki Beachboy: Assimilation, transgression, and Polynesian culture in postwar American youth fiction”
Guest Lecture Series – April 26th- new location!
Boston University Graduate Student History of Art and Architecture Association
Spring 2012 Guest Scholar Lecture Series
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 5:30PM
Prof. Ross Barrett, UNC-Chapel Hill,
“Painting that ‘might prove injurious’: Cinque and the Picturing of African American Political Violence” at 5:30PM
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room CAS 200- All are Welcome!
Q&A + Reception to follow the lecture.
Presented by the Graduate Student Association of Art & Architecture at Boston University.
Guest Lecture Series – April 11th
Boston University Graduate Student History of Art and Architecture Association
Spring 2012 Guest Scholar Lecture Series
Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5:30PM
Prof. Sura Levine, Hampshire College
“Another Kind of Document: Jewish Artists and the Holocaust,” at 5:30PM
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room CAS 303a- All are Welcome!
Q&A + Reception to follow the lecture.
Presented by the Graduate Student Association of Art & Architecture at Boston University.
Feb 6- “Curating a Continent: African Art at the Newark Museum”
Monday, February 6 –
BOSTON UNIVERSITY AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER WALTER RODNEY SEMINAR
“Curating a Continent: African Art at the Newark Museum” Christa Clarke, Newark Museum of Art
12:00-1:30pm
African Studies Center – Room 505,
232 Bay State Road
The Walter Rodney Seminar lecture series was inaugurated in the fall of 1977, at the initiative of two doctoral candidates in Boston University’s political science department. It was named after Walter Rodney, the Guyanese scholar and political activist murdered in his native country in 1980, whose best-remembered book, “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” (1972), has long been considered a classic in African studies. Over the past 33 years, the Walter Rodney Seminar has brought more than five hundred guest speakers to BU’s African Studies Center. The lecture series is interdisciplinary, and has included presentations by established and incipient scholars in all Africa-related disciplines, including history, anthropology, political science, economics, sociology, public health, literature, visual arts, musicology, religion, Islamic studies, international relations, and public diplomacy. “The Rodneys,” as they are often referred to, are a keystone of the weekly activities of the African Studies Center, and regularly fill the room with faculty, students, and community members.
Mondays, Noon–1:30 pm
The African Studies Center
232 Bay State Road, Room 505
Boston, MA 02115
617-353-3674
for a schedule of future events, and more information, visit The Boston University African Studies Webpage.
Jan 28th, Exhibition Opening, “Nature’s Helmet, The Human Skull”
Saturday, January 28th, 8-11PM
156 Harvard Ave, Allston, MA 02134
Curated by Adam Adelson (HAA 2012)
Exhibition runs January 28th-February 19th, 2012
For more information, visit
http://natures-helmet.tumblr.com/
Spring 2012 Art Bull – now available!
ARTBULL, The Newsletter of Boston University’s Department of History of Art & Architecture, is now available for download.
New Book Release Edited by Professor Melanie Hall
Towards World Heritage
International Origins of the
Preservation Movement 1870–1930
Edited by Melanie Hall, Boston University
Historic preservation of landscapes and buildings was an important development of the 19th century in many countries. There is, however, surprisingly little understanding about how it took place, and research into it is narrowly focused. For example, landscape preservation from this time generally is examined separately from buildings; preservation is seen in terms of national narratives, or considered within the contexts of area studies, and is usually seen from a specific disciplinary perspective. All of these later categorizations did not apply at the time and consequently, a very partial view is achieved.
This dynamic collection of essays brings together a trans-disciplinary line-up of academics and practitioners to reconsider preservation’s origins in the second half of the 19th and early part of the 20th century. With a focus on Britain and the British Empire, and including case studies from the United States, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, Sri Lanka, “The Holy Land” and Turkey, this book places preservation in imperial, international, and national contexts, demonstrating far more interaction between different countries in this arena than may be supposed and revealing remarkable but hitherto hidden overlaps.
It examines three main themes: the influence of religion; the political and sub-diplomatic aspects of preservation; and the professionalization of preservation practice. Internationalizing trends already existed through the churches, the universities, and the diplomatic services, as well as familial ties that had an important impact on preservation’s epistemic communities and its targets.
François Abelanet
Please join us for a lecture/presentation by François Abelanet… architect, scenographer and artist from Paris, France. He will be discussing his recent projects in LandArt. Space is limited and on a first come/first seated basis.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
CAS 303a at 12:00pm