MELLON RESEARCH INITIATIVE: EVENTS
The Institute has invited three distinguished scholars to coordinate a series of annual events that will be convened to explore these topics:
Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jas Elsner, Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago
David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
2012-2013
Beyond Representation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things (September 27 -29, 2012)
This event is jointly sponsored by Bard Graduate Center and the IFA’s Mellon Research Initiative, and organized by Jas Elsner, Finbarr Barry Flood, and Ittai Weinryb.
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Publishing and the PhD
October 18, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
A public workshop on the art history publication in relation to the dissertation
Watch the video of this workshop here.
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Digital Art History (November 30 – December 1, 2012)
Organized by Jim Coddington.
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Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas
(March 7-8, 2013)
Organized by Jennifer Raab, IFA/Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011 - 2013
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Archaeology, Heritage, and the Mediation of Time (April 12-13, 2013)
Organized by David Wengrow
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PAST EVENTS
Presentism
November 5, 2011
Convened by Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
[click here for a full description and a list of speakers]
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