Associate Professor Lamia Balafrej specializes in the arts of the medieval and early modern Islamic world with particular interests in the intersected histories of labor, technology, materiality, and representation.
In such an internationally-connected—even globally-connected—cultural and financial center as Augsburg in the early sixteenth century, what is the importance of the sense of place and locality generated by its citizens and artists, and what might we learn by drilling down to the street-level of activity and interaction taking place there?
Please join us in celebrating the achievements of our outstanding students in the Department of Art and Art History! Each student will be giving a brief presentation of their Honors work in the past year. Refreshments will be served.
Matters of Art: Materiality, Functionality, and the Agency of Art Objects Call for Papers: we invite abstracts of no more than 300 words for 20-minute paper presentations. Please submit your abstract and CV 5 PM EDT Sunday, July, 3, 2022
The Visual Resources Library of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be conducting a series of short Personal Archiving workshops on focused topics for the Fall 2022 semester.
The role material condition plays in artistic production and the utility of art objects has been frequently obscured in the discipline of art history. This year’s symposium will foreground materiality with an emphasis on raw materials, both in the production of art objects and in artistic depictions.
Working between photography, self-portraiture, and performance, the work of Franco-Cameroonian photographer Samuel Fosso occupies a central position in the international contemporary art world.
The Visual Resources Library of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be conducting a series of short Personal Archiving workshops on focused topics for the Fall 2022 semester.
