Art History Graduate Student Association at UIC

On Monday, March 1, the Art History program hosted our first of four potential candidates for the 'Art of the Americas' tenure-track faculty position. The candidate, Nika Elder (Princeton, 2013), is an Americanist whose dissertation and follow-up research focuses on the paintings of William Harnett. Elder gave an engaging presentation of her ongoing research at the job talk. Her talk explored the limitations of the white male body within art and other spheres following "the racial, economic, and ideological conflicts that informed the civil war." She discussed aspects of Harnett's trompe-l'œil still-lifes and the concept of personhood using examples like "Borghese Warrior" (1873) and "Shinplaster" (1879). These paintings and others were also examined as creations that were in dialogue with contemporaneous academy painting.

The next job talk is this Friday, March 4 at 1.30pm. Andrew Finegold (Columbia, 2012) will be giving a talk in HH 106. Finegold is a Precolumbianist and his dissertation titled "Battle Murals: Violence, Representation, and Time in Epiclassic Mesoamerica" challenges the understanding of these murals as faithful renderings of actual events. Rather, he suggests that the murals are "iconic or allegorical allusions to warfare."

Please join AHGSA and the faculty for lunch at 12.00pm followed by Finegold's talk this Friday.

UIC art history alumnus Mirela Tanta (phd, 2014) will be giving a lecture next Tuesday, Feb 2, at 5 PM at Gallery 400 titled "Realisms: Art in Romania Before and After 1989." We look forward to seeing you there!

http://gallery400.uic.edu/events/realisms-art-in-romania-before-and-after-1989

Realisms: Art in Romania Before and After 1989 – Upcoming Event - Events - Gallery 400 Gallery 400 and the Department of Art History at UIC invite you to a lecture by art historian Mirela Tanta, entitled Realisms: Art in Romania Before and After 1989.

Don't Forget!

Come have some fun on Wednesday at 6PM with your fellow students. We'll be playing some "Artegories" and eating snacks.

See you there!

Artegories! Artegories! Artegories!

Upcoming event! Mark your calendars...

AHGSA will be hosting a get together/game night on January 27th from 6-8. Look for an email and event page here on Facebook soon for more information!

Cool opportunity:

Please submit to Engendering Change Graduate Student Conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago this year. The theme this year is Racial and Gender Justice. Please feel free to share the CFP with anyone who may be interested. Abstracts are due February 1st, 2016. Full papers are due April 1st, 2016.
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Engendering Change Graduate Student Conference 2016
University of Illinois at Chicago
April 23, 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
Engendering Change is an annual graduate student organized conference focused on issues of gender and s*xuality. This year the theme of the conference is Racial and Gender Justice. Recently, social justice movements working to end police brutality against people of color have gained momentum and pushed issues of racial justice into the spotlight. Black Lives Matter has transformed into an international anti-violence movement and attracted the attention of current presidential candidates and has called for particular attention to police violence against black women, including black transwomen. These movements are part of a long history of social justice organizing, nationally, internationally, and here in Chicago that focuses on violence against women, including q***r, trans, and cisgender women of color.
Police brutality and other forms of violence disproportionately affecting people of color cannot be understood without attending to the intersections of race and gender. The murder rate of transwomen of color is hugely disproportionate. Attributions of aggressiveness, violence, and hypers*xuality to black masculinity inform interactions with the police. Black women are incarcerated at a rate that is four times to rate of incarceration of white women. Undocumented women of color have been impacted by the intensification of raids and deportation under the Obama administration and the myth of the “anchor baby” has stigmatized Latina and Asian immigrant women, making them the target of anti-immigrant politicians. Gender-based violence is a racial justice issue.
With this in mind, the organizing committee for Engendering Change 2016 issues a call for papers. The theme of the conference is meant to highlight and further encourage academic work on racial and gender justice, however all submissions related to gender and s*xuality will be considered.
Paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
· Social movements for racial and gender justice
· Criminalization of LGBTQ people
· Immigration and motherhood
· Themes of violence and resistance in literature, film, or art made by women of color
· Criminalization of s*x work
· “Post-race” and “post closet” discourses
· Gender-based violence
· Racialized masculinities
· Gender, s*xuality and race in political rhetoric
· Carceral feminism
· Social media use in organizing for social justice
· Sexual violence
· Domestic violence
· Q***r of color critique
· Race, gender, and s*xuality in the medicalization and criminalization of disability
· Reproductive rights and the history of forced sterilization
· Race, gender, s*xuality and public space
· Feminism, comedy and popular culture

Email an abstract to [email protected] by FEBRUARY 1st for consideration. Full papers will be due APRIL 1st.

AHGSA is meeting today at 3pm at Kingsbaker Cafe! Come help us plan an end of the year PARTAY and other Fun Fun Fun (and serious) stuff!

A big "happy birthday" wish to our very hardworking treasurer Laura Herlocher!!

Victoria H. F. Scott keynote presenter at UIC's Art History Graduate Student Association... Victoria H. F. Scott keynote presenter at UIC's Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium Victoria H. F. Scott’s controversial essay “The Art History Guild,” urged scholars to think more ambitiously about what Art History means and how Art History connects to the welfare of society at large…

Don't forget that the big event is only a week away! Join us on Thursday evening for our keynote speaker Victoria Scott and Friday for some exciting panels! Check out the website for more detailed information and the flyer.

Take a look at our new flyer for the Symposium! If you'd like to see the schedule of events for the symposium check out our website. https://disciplineanddoctrine.wordpress.com

Update: Due to some scheduling conflicts we need to reschedule our meeting for tomorrow. We'll let you know the new date and time once its decided!