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Situating Recent Iranian Modern and Contemporary Art Scholarship, An online seminar organized by the Graduate Center for Literary Research at UC Santa Barbara. Friday, April 5, 2024, 9 AM (PST) Pamela Karimi (UMass Dartmouth) in conversation with Maryam Athari (Northwestern University), Friday, April 12, 2024, 9 AM (PST) Hamid Keshmirshekan (SOAS) in conversation with Hemed Yousefi (Northwestern University), Friday, April 19, 2024 9 AM (PST) Katrin Nahidi (Universität Graz) in conversation with Mohammadreza
The IHC Series: Humanities Decanted, presenting new publications and creative projects by HFA faculty: Join Swati Chattopadhyay (HAA) and Cristina Venegas (Film and Media Studies) to discuss Chattopadhyay’s new book, Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire
Interview with HAA Ph.D. Candidate and past IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow Megan Sheard highlights her work with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation.
UCSB Library Award For Undergraduate Research: Earn a cash prize for your creative or scholarly work. Submissions accepted April 1-26, 2024. For more information, visit https://www.library.ucsb.edu/library-award-undergraduate-research
AD&A Museum Exhibitions on view January 25 - May 5, 2024: Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance 1900-1955; and, A Box of One's Own: Women Beyond Borders
Introducing: Art History Club
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News

Ph.D. Candidate Rachel Winter Publishes Edited Volume

Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy, edited by Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert, Rachel Winter, and Samia Halaby, examines formal and thematic relationships across bodies of work by the artist.

Crocker Art Museum Appoints Ph.D. Candidate Sara Morris as Curator of Ceramics

As the Ruth Rippon Curator of Ceramics, her duties include research into the collection, acquiring artworks for the Museum’s permanent collection, and organizing contemporary and historic ceramics exhibitions and publications.

Lecturer Openings in History of Art & Architecture Department

The Department seeks applications for a pool of qualified lecturers to teach lower and upper-division lecture courses.

Upcoming Events

HAA Lecture Series 2023-2024: Materials

Enmeshed: Photography, Lace, and Women’s Labor

Beth Saunders (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Arts 1332

  1. May 17, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Giving

A view of the History of Art & Architecture's Center for Object Based Research and Learning before the inaugural meeting of ARTHI 186SV: Seminar in Modern Architecture: Bauhaus in California, taught by Professor Volker M. Welter in Fall 2019. Instructors hold courses in COBRAL to teach with objects borrowed from the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and the Architecture and Design Collection for study and facilitating discussion. (image taken 9/30/19)

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