Living on the Edge: Armenian Art and the Margins of Art History

Thursday, October 24 2024 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM

Mitchell Hall 195

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The 2024 Friends of Art History Lecture marks the 60th anniversary of the Department of Art History at UWM. Our speaker is Professor Christina Maranci of Harvard University (Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Department of History of Art and Architecture), where she holds the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies. Professor Maranci taught in our own department from 2001 until 2008, and we are thrilled to welcome her back to Milwaukee.

Professor Maranci is the author of four books and over 100 articles and essays on medieval Armenian art and architecture, including most recently, the Art of Armenia (Oxford UP, 2018). Her 2015 monograph, Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia (Brepols, 2015) won the Karen Gould Prize for Art History from the Medieval Academy of America and as well as the Sona Aronian Prize for best Armenian Studies monograph from the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). She has also published op eds. and essays in the Wall Street JournalApolloThe Conversation, and Hyperallergic, and has been featured on National Public Radio’s Open Source with Christopher Lydon. For her work, she received in 2024 the Moses Khorenatsi Medal from the President of the Republic of Armenia.

Image: Lectionary of Het’um II, 1286. Yerevan, Matenadaran, MS 979, fol. 293r. Decorated chapter heading. Photo: Matenadaran.

Additional support provided by the local chapter of AIA (Archaeological Institute of America)

Event is free and open to the public.

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