Student Spotlight: LauraLee Brott (PhD Cand.) will be presenting "The graphics of knowledge in the 12th-c. Tournai maps of Asia & Palestine" as part of the Maps & Society Lecture Series The Warburg Institute in London. Her talk will explore how the maps textually & materially relate to the ms they are bound to. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #medievalmaps #tournaimaps #arthistory #medievalart (1/2)

We're hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in the art history of Africa, African Diaspora, or the Indigenous Americas! #africanart #arthistory #indigenousart #indigenousamericas #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #africandiaspora
Learn more: https://go.wisc.edu/559n6d

Student Spotlight: The latest issue of SEQUITUR includes an informal report on Ph.D. Student Levi Shermans’s ongoing research into how contemporary artists have engaged w/the library as a site and a subject. This research draws from art history, the cultural history of libraries, & info science to better understand how the artists relate differently to the library than the archive or museum. #spectacle #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #publiclibrary #artlibrary #arthistory #OnWisconsin (1/2)

Enjoy your Spring Break Badgers! Have a wonderful and relaxing week off and safe travels! 🦡 🏖 #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory

Faculty News: Last month, Profs. Jill H. Casid, Nancy Rose Marshall, & Jennifer Pruitt participated in the 111th
@caavisual
Annual Conference in NYC. Congratulations on your sessions & presentations! #caa2023 #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory #OnWisconsin

The Department of Art History is now on LinkedIn! Follow us on the platform for similar social media posts and more job-related content!

You can find us here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uw%E2%80%93madison-department-of-art-history/

#uwmadisonarthistory #uwmadison #arthistory #OnWisconsin #linkedinprofile

Please join us this Thursday, March 9th, for Art History GradForum's lecture "Queer & Trans Abstractions in Contemporary Art" by Dr. Lex Lancaster (Ph.D., 2017) at 5:00pm. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory #OnWisconsin #contemporaryart

Summer 2023 Course Highlight: This summer, Dr. Kyungso Min will be teaching ART HIST 431: "New Media Art," asynchronous online, during June 26th–August 6th, 2023. Sophomore Standing | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit. #newmediaart #uwmadison #OnWisconsin #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory

Introduces philosophy and theory relevant to the study of art history and visual cultures with a focus on a particular body of theoretical work and an organization in terms of key questions and concepts.

Faculty News: Director of the Sardis Expedition and Art History Professor Nick Cahill has recently published the latest newsletter from the excavations and restorations taking place at Sardis in modern western Turkey. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory #OnWisconsin #sardis #sardisexpedition #classicalarchaeology #archaeology
You can read the latest finds here: https://sardisexpedition.org/en/news

Summer 2023 Course Highlight: Dr. Sarah Stolte will be teaching ART HIST/AMER IND 359 "American Indian Art History: Contemporary Issues" May 22–June 18 | Online | T 9–10:50AM | AMER IND 100 or Sophomore Standing | Ethnic Studies | L&S Credit | Humanities Breadth.
This is the 1st time that this course will be offered since 2013! #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #OnWisconsin

This course is designed to provide an intro to Native North American Indian (1/2)

Alumni Update: Thank You Amy L. Powell!
Thank you Dr. Amy L. Powell (Ph.D., 2012) for your lecture, "The PhD and Curatorial Work: Curating between Artists and Institutions, and Developing Long Arcs of Inquiry," and kicking off our Distinguished Alum Lecture Series.
We look forward to next year's Distinguished Alum Lecture in 2024! 🤩🦡🎓
#distinguishedalumlecture #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory #OnWisconsin #badgercurator

Summer 2023 Course Highlight: This summer, PhD Cand. Mateusz Ferens will be teaching ART HIST 303 "Heroes and Villains," asynchronous online, June 5–July 28, 2023. Sophomore Standing | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory #heroesandvillains #OnWisconsin #summer2023

In this course, we will dive into an exploration of human values as they are represented in our heroes & villains. This course will take a thematic approach in which we explore such (1/3)

SAVE THE DATE for Day of the Badger 2023 on Tuesday, March 28th–Wednesday, March 29th! All donations made during Day of the Badger will go toward supporting our students! 🦡 #DayoftheBadger #dob23 #uwmadison #OnWisconsin #arthistory #uwmadisonarthistory

Learn more about Day of the Badger here:
https://dayofthebadger.org/pages/uw-madison-home

This Thursday! We hope to see you at our Inaugural Distinguished Alum Lecture this Thursday, February 9th, 2023 with Dr. Amy L. Powell. Dr. Powell's talk, "The PhD and Curatorial Work: Curating between Artists and Institutions, and Developing Long Arcs of Inquiry," will begin at 5:00pm. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #uwmadisonarts #uwmadisonls #OnWisconsin #badgercurator #arthistory #moderncontemporaryart

TODAY! Friday, Feb. 3rd, Art History Profs Anna Campbell & Guillermina de Ferrari w/Art History Affiliate Prof. Sarah Anne Carter will present their current research projects w/the goal of sharing & sustaining intellectual energy around visual cultures topics. The Faculty Research Forum will take place in the Hagen Room, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building Rm. 150 at 12:00pm CT. #centerforvisualcultures #uwcvc #facultyresearchforum #visualculture #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory #OnWisconsin

Faculty News: Professor Thomas E. A. Dale, the Simona and Jerome Chazen Distinguished Chair of Art History, has been elected to the Medieval Academy of America's Fellows Class of 2023. A prestigious honor, fellows are nominated by their colleagues within the medieval studies community.

Congratulations Prof. Dale on this well-deserved achievement!

#uwmadisonarthistory #uwmadison #arthistory #OnWisconsin #medievalacademy #medievalstudies #maafellow #medievalacademyofamerica #medievalart

Welcome Back Badgers!!! 🦡 We hope that you have a wonderful first day of the Spring 2023 Semester! #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #OnWisconsin

The excursion of Art History badgers ended w/dinner at The News Room in downtown Minneapolis. The exhibition, "Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi," closed Sunday, January 8th, 2023 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory #OnWisconsin #botticelli #minneapolisinstituteofart #uffizigallery (2/2)

Spring 2023 Course Highlight: Need a seminar for spring? Curious about Qatar after watching the #WorldCup? Come think it through with us! ⚽️🏆 Prof. Pruitt will be offering AH 510/810 "From Mecca to Dubai: Architecture in Arabia" | W 5–7:30PM | L&S Credit.
Email jpruitt@wisc.edu to enroll.#meccatodubai #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #worldcup #WorldCup2022 #WorldCupQatar2022 #OnWisconsin #islamicart #islamicarthistory #MiddleEastStudies #arabianarchitecture

Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Abby Armstrong Check has published a book review for Alison Locke Perchuk's 2021 book "The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone" in the 53rd volume of "Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies." #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory #medievalart #medievalarthistory #SaintElijah #comitatus #OnWisconsin
You can access Abby's review here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/439/article/870128