News & Achievements

 

March 2012

Students know how to ARTiculate

History in Art graduate students celebrate the launch of their new peer-reviewed, online art historical journal ARTiculate. Founding co-editors Randip Bakshi, Sara Checkley and Jennifer Cador realized a year ago that the dearth of publishing opportunities for graduate students in art history was a serious problem for those aspiring to a career in academia—but rather than just accept this situation, they decided to create new publishing opportunities for their colleagues themselves.

Dr. Erin Campbell

Dr. Erin Campbell has recently co-organized three panels of presentations for the 58th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, to be held in Washington D.C., March 22-24, 2012.  She will be presenting her own paper entitled: “Objects of Time: Family Portraits and Temporality in the Early Modern Domestic Interior.”  
Dr. Campbell is also scheduled to present in the 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, being held in Nuremberg, Germany, July 15-20, 2012. She will presenting her paper entitled “Good Housekeeping:  Objects and Agency in the Early Modern Domestic Interior.” 

 

Dr. Marcus Milwright

In other Milwright news, the director of UVic’s Medieval Studies program and associate professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology has also been invited to speak at an international conference devoted to the Hajj, running March 22-24 at the British Museum. “The British Museum has a major exhibition on the history and culture of this Muslim pilgrimage,” says Milwright, “and the conference is associated with it.” He will speaking on the topic of "Trade and the Hajj: Archeological and Historical Perspectives".

 

February 2012

Dr. Marcus Milwright

Director of Medieval Studies and History in Art associate professor Marcus Milwright furthered his current standing as one of the most buzz-worthy Fine Arts faculty members with his weekend appearance on CHEK News. Milwright was briefly interviewed as part of CHEK’s coverage of the 25th Annual Medieval Workshop on Saturday February 4th. Click here, then scroll along to Feb. 4 and the “Medieval Fair” clip.

 

The 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference

The 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference "Conflict and Compromise" will occur on February 25th in HHB 105. This is a student-organized conference that provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to share their own research in front of their peers and professors. This year, five students will present on the theme of "Conflict and Compromise" in history, literature and art. Of those five students, four are History in Art students: Erica Bloom (3rd Year Honours); Calvin Freeman (3rd Year); Genevieve Neelin (4th Year Honours) and Alison Fraser (4th Year Honours).

 

History in Art Student Association (HASA) New York Trip 2012

History in Art undergraduate students, along with Dr. Allan Antliff, are currently touring New York City's art world during this year's Reading Break (February 13-17). Here is a link to the HASA New York Trip 2011. You can follow up on the trip via their facebook page.

 

January 2012

Dr. Marcus Milwright

'An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology' by History in Art associate professor Marcus Milwright has been named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2011 by Choice magazine. “An outstanding introduction that can be read with profit by general readers as well as professionals,” the listing notes. “Highly Recommended.” read more

 

 

PhD Graduate Student honoured with teaching award

Catherine Nutting, a History in Art PhD candidate, has been awarded the Andy Farquarson Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching . Catherine taught HA 240 "The Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe" in the Fall 2011; she is currently teaching HA 342B  "Art and Material Culture of Holland in the 17th Century."

 

 

 

Visual Impetus - Intersec+ions
Visual Impetus is an annual symposium organized and run by graduate students in the Department of History in Art. In 2012, the symposium will mark its fifteenth year. Our aim is to provide a venue for graduate students in art history and related fields to share their research with other students, faculty, and the community, and to gain valuable critical feedback. Visual Impetus is open to graduate students at any university.

 

November 2011

Dr. Allan Antliff

A revised and expanded edition of Dr. Allan Antliff’s ground-breaking study, Anarchy and Art (2007), has just been released by German publisher Verlag Edition AV. “The book begins with artist Gustave Courbet’s activism during the 1871 Paris Commune, and ends with an examination of anarchist art during the fall of the Soviet empire,” explains Antliff.

 

Dr. Marcus Milwright

Dr. Marcus Milwright, director of UVic’s Medieval Studies program and associate professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, has been awarded the position of scholar-in-residence at Shangri La, a Centre for Islamic Arts and Cultures, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His position there will run April 14 to May 6, 2012, during which time he will be studying Syrian artifacts in the collection.

Dr. Milwright has also been elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with whom he has previously published articles in their Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. And he also recently acquired a facsimile of the 12th-century Arabic book, Kitab al-Diryaq (Book of Antidotes), for the McPherson Library.

 

September, 2011

Anarchist Archive Goes Digital
In collaboration with History in Art professor and Canada Research Chair Dr. Allan Antliff, UVic's Special Collections and Archives has been gathering materials relating to the anarchist movement, with a special focus on Canada, since 2005. The Anarchist Archive is composed of personal papers, journals, art work, monographs, posters, broadsides, videos, musical and spoken-word recordings, zines, and other material.

Join Dr. Antliff and UVic Libraries at this inaugural event to debut the Anarchist Archive online. Recent acquisitions include the papers of anarchist activist and author Ann Hansen, who will be joining Dr. Antliff at the Anarchist Archive’s opening celebrations.

ARTiculate
ARTiculate is a peer-reviewed graduate student journal published by the University of Victoria. It is a forum in which to present scholarly art historical student work to a larger audience.


July, 2011

Former UVic curator honoured
Martin Segger named an ambassador of the arts

Historian, curator, University of Victoria professor and connoisseur of art and architecture Martin Segger is being honoured as this year's ambassador of the arts by the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts.

The celebration gala is July 8.

March, 2011

Dr Evanthia Baboula
Assistant Professor

On March 4-5, 2011, Dr. Evanthia Baboula organized an interdisciplinary workshop entitled The Unexpected Mediterranean. The aim of the event was to bring together academics from across campus and the globe to reflect on the theme of surprise in their research and discuss the Mediterranean as an entity that unite or divides people, ideas, and things. (more)

 

Laura Marchiori
Postdoctoral fellowship

Laura Marchiori has been awarded a SSHRC Postdoctoral fellowship for 2011-2012 to research the representation of gender in medieval wall paintings in Rome under the guidance of Dr Catherine Harding at the University of Victoria. This research examines messages about gender roles, chastity and sexual transgression in visual narratives dating from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries from the perspective of audience reception to discover how gender served to communicate social identity during the Middle Ages. While much of the first year will be spent in residence at the British School at Rome researching, the second year will involve a period of residence in Victoria to complete writing up and dissemination of research. While Laura completed her Ph.D. at Queen’s University, she received her BA and MA from the University of Victoria.

 

January, 2011

Dr Carolyn Butler-Palmer,
Williams Legacy Chair

New exhibition: 'Connect the Blocks', opening at the Legacy Gallery and Cafe, in downtown Victoria, at the end of January. There is an article featured in the January 2011 edition of The Ring (UVic campus newspaper).


Dr Marcus Milwright
Associate Professor

Featured in the January 2011, The Ring (UVic campus newspaper) regarding the recent purchase of a very high-quality facsimile of one of the most important surviving illustrated manuscripts from the high periodof Arab manuscript paiting in the 12th and 13th centuries: the Maqamat of al-Hariri, copied and illustrated by Yahya al-Wasiti. (read more) Marcus has also recently published two books: The Fortress of the Raven: Karak in the Middle Islamic Period (1100-1600), Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts 72 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008) and An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology, The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). For further information on these publications, see:

 

October, 2010

Dr Allan Antliff
Canada Research Chair

Interviewed about anarchist theory and practice in Canada for a German-language publication, From Jakarta to Johannesburg: World-Wide Anarchism (Unrast Verlag). The book will be out in October 2010 (English-language edition is forth coming in 2011).

Dr Antliff is also supervisor to Melissa Berry, PhD candidate, who was awarded one of several of the 2010 European Studies Program Grants for use in travel and research. This grant facilitated travel to England and France, to research the 19th Century painters who worked in London and Paris, her area of study.


Dr Evanthia Baboula and Dr Marcus Milwright,
arthistorians/archaeologists

Have been awarded a 2010 SSHRC grant to research the Ottoman architecture and topography of southern Greece.

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