Kevin Murphy: Universities as Vanguards of Historical Preservation

The current issue of Vanderbilt Magazine (Winter 2016) features an article on a new campus land-use plan entitled “A Plan for All Seasons.”  Speaking at the all-day Vanderbilt University Land Use Symposium held on campus in early November, Kevin Murphy, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Department of History of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 14, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Ulla Haselstein to Lecture March 17 on Gertrude Stein’s Portrait of Cézanne

Ulla Haselstein, professor and chair of American Literature at the John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität, Berlin, will address “Gertude Stein’s Portrait of Cézanne” in a lecture on Thursday, March 17, at 4:10 pm in Buttrick Hall 305 on Vanderbilt’s main campus.  A recipient of a two-year “opus magnum” grant from the VW Foundation,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 14, 2016 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns Presents Paper on Chinoiserie and Chairs Session at SEASECS Meeting

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, presented a paper and chaired a session at the annual meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held February 25-27 in Savannah, Georgia.  His paper on chinoiserie addressed “The Color Yellow:  Qing Imperial Chromatics and the Origins of Western Ideas…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 12, 2016 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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HART Department Awards Five Downing Grants for the Spring Semester

The History of Art Department recently announced the recipients of the 2016 Downing Grants for the spring semester, whose research sites range from Johannesburg, South Africa, to New York City to Houston, Texas. The recipients are Haley Brown, Anna Greene, Hannah Ladendorf, Monica Peacock, and Sujin Shin. The Downing Grant is a competitive award made…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 2, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Kevin Murphy Receives Craft Research Fund Grant from Center for Craft, Creativity & Design

The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (CCCD) has awarded one of eleven Craft Research Fund grants for 2015-2016 to Kevin Murphy, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art.  The $6,500 project grant will provide support for Murphy’s research on Scott Nearing (1883-1893) and Helen K. Nearing (1904-1995)…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 2, 2016 in HART, VRC

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Elspeth Dusinberre to Present AIA Lecture on March 1 on the Ancient Persian Empire

Elspeth Dusinberre, chair and professor of classics at the University of Colorado-Boulder, will  lecture on “Power and the Ideal in the Ancient Persian Empire” at the Nashville Parthenon on Tuesday, March 1, at 6 pm.  Her lecture will explore the glories and practices, the rhetoric and realities, of the ancient Persian Empire. When Alexander the Great…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 24, 2016 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Pakistani Artist Mahwish Chishty Featured in Studio VU Lecture on February 10

Initially trained as a miniature painter from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, Mahwish Chishty has aggressively combined new media and conceptual work with her traditional practice, emerging as a notable conceptual artist.  As part of the Department of Art’s Studio VU Lecture Series, Chishty will talk about her work on Wednesday, February 10,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 10, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns Edits Volume on the Papacy of Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini

Emerging from a groundbreaking international conference on the papacy of Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (reigned 1740-1758) and its legacy, the anthology Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality, edited by Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher M. S. Johns and Philip Gavitt, was recently published by the University of Toronto Press. The symposium of 2012 was…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 9, 2016 in HART, VRC

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HART Professors Present Papers at CAA Annual Conference February 3-6

Professors Mireille Lee, Barbara Tsakirgis, and Riyaz Latif travel to Washington, DC this week to present papers at the College Art Association annual conference held February 3-6.  The conference consists of four days of presentations, panel discussions, workshops, special events, and exhibitions exploring the study, practice, and history of art and visual culture. Lee, Assistant…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 3, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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HART Professors Leonard Folgarait, Hamilton Hazlehurst Cited in Alumni Survey

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 28, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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