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The Covid-19 pandemic has meant that universities are making fast decisions about how to keep students and staff safe while keeping instruction going. Some universities have restricted or eliminated public events and others have closed their dorms and moved all instruction online for the remainder of the term. For courses that already are online or
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Call for papers: Close at Hand: Touch and Tactility in Art Third Biennial Graduate Student Art History Symposium Washington University in St. Louis Friday, February 28 – Saturday, February 29, 2020 Inevitably every museumgoer is bound to encounter the all-too-familiar refrain: “Do not touch the art.” How does this “hands-off” attitude transform our engagement with art meant
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Women’s corpses, such as those of Snow White or Ophelia, are often depicted as a beautiful and passive objects, which has led scholars to posit cultural reflections concerning tacit assumptions in the link between femininity and death. In relation to modern literature and art, scholars such as Elizabeth Bronfen (Over Her Dead Body), Elizabeth Grosz
The German Historical Institute Washington DC is announces the third round of its Innovation through Migration Fellowship Program at its Pacific Regional Office in Berkeley (GHI | PRO). The fellowship program offers up to three senior scholars per year the chance to come to Berkeley to help shape the emerging research focus on the histories