Feminist Dialogues in the Art of Hong Kong
Thursday, April 10, 2025
4:00pm
Naylor Auditorium, Gailor Hall
The lecture offers an introduction of Hong Kong art and visual culture from the 2000s to the present with a focus on women artists’ practices. Hong Kong was a British colony from the mid- nineteenth century until 1997 when its sovereignty was returned to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Friday, February 21, 2025
1:00pm
Gailor Hall 130
Alexandra Kirtley, Montgomery-Garvan Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will be meeting with students on Friday, February 21, at 1:00 p.m., in Gailor Hall 130.
She will discuss her work as a curator as well as the range of career possibilities that exist within art museums. She will also discuss the many ways in which an art history major is useful in one's life "beyond the gates"!
All are welcome!
On February 25, Dr. Alison Miller gave a talk on the 19th c literati artist Noguchi Shohin as part of the symposium Gender and Voice in Japanese Art, held at the Denver Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists. She also contributed an essay to the digital catalogue.
Professor Pradip Malde has been named a visiting artist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2023.
Tuesday, Nov 8 at 4:00
Zoom
Dr. Alison J Miller will provide an introduction to Japanese woodblock prints of the 1870s and 1880s with a focus on how the images worked to create and reinforce social conceptions of Meiji values and ideals. Note: Advance registration is required
Assistant Professor of Art History Alison Miller has been awarded a Sainsbury Fellowship for Spring 2023. This award will require her to be in England for six months at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures at the University of East Anglia. This is a great opportunity and a highly prestigious award in the field of Japanese art history.
Dr. Yoshikuni Igarashi, Professor of History at Vanderbilt University delivered a lecture entitled Are we Allowed to see Beauty in the Face of Death and Destruction?: Ishiuchi Miyako's 'Hiroshima' and postwar Japan on March 30 in Gailor Auditorium. The event was sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies; the Department of History; the Asian Studies Program, and the Women's & Gender Studies Program.
