Snow Attends Asian Studies Conference
Visiting Assistant Professor Hilary Snow presented at the annual Association for Asian Studies conference in Chicago on March 28, 2015.
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Rarey Presents as part of Africology Seminar Series
Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew Francis Rarey presented his talk “Insignificant Things: Assemblage, Occlusion, and the Power of Pouches in the Black Atlantic” as part of the UWM Department of Africology Seminar Series.
Rarey Presents at CAA
On February 14, Matthew Francis Rarey presented his paper, “Bolsas de Mandinga and the Art of Survival in the African-Portuguese World” as part of the special panel “The Talisman: A Critical Genealogy,” organized by Yael Rice of Amherst College and Benjamin Anderson of Cornell University, at the 103rd Conference of the College Art Association in New York.
Rarey’s New Essay: ”Camera Lucida Mexicana: Travel, Visual Technologies, and Contested Objectivities”
Matthew Francis Rarey’s essay ”Camera Lucida Mexicana: Travel, Visual Technologies, and Contested Objectivities” discusses three nascent visual technologies—the camera lucida, the panorama, and the daguerreotype—as often stubborn and defiant agents in quests for both scientific rationality and picturesque image-making in the first four decades of the nineteenth century.
Art History Featured in December L&S In-Focus
The Department of Art History was featured in the December 2014 edition of the College of Letters & Science In-Focus monthly newsletter.
Matthew Francis Rarey receives Travel Award
Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew Francis Rarey, recently named affiliate faculty in the UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), has received a 2014 CLACS Faculty Research Travel Award.
UWM Art History in the Haggerty Museum of Art News
The Haggerty has always worked closely with UWM’s Peck School of the Arts and Art History departments.
African Art in the UWM Art History Teaching Gallery
On December 3 and December 8, 2014, Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew Francis Rarey went from professor to student in ARTHIST 371: African Art.
Ying Wang in Tibet
Associate Professor Ying Wang participated in a pilgrimage, or khora, at the snow-mountain Kangrenboqe (also known as Mt. Gangdis, Tise and Kailas) in Tibet during the summer of 2014.
Meet Hilary Snow
Visiting Assistant Professor Hilary K. Snow joins the art history faculty this year as a specialist in Asian art.