2023 |
FALL
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Aug 18 | Fri | Art History Department Back-To-School Breakfast |
Aug 18 | Fri | AHIS Grad Student advisement meetings with DGS |
Aug 21 | Mon | Start of Classes for Fall Semester Session 001 (Aug 21 – Dec 1) |
Aug 22 |
Tue | AHIS TA/Professor lunch meeting |
Aug 23 | Wed | Department/Faculty Meeting |
Aug 26 | Fri | AHIS Fall Language Examination |
Aug 30 | Wed | VSRI: Graduate Student Focus
5-6:30pm PST RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Sep 1 | Fri | Collaborations in History, Art, Religion, and Music (CHARM) hosts a discussion of Adam Jasienski’s new book, Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Penn State, 2023). An asynchronous social reading group is open now at perusall.com with course code: PON-WJVWQ.
THH 308 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm |
Sep 1 | Fri | VSRI : Co-Sponsored and Of Interest
11am-12:30pm RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Sep 4 | Mon | Labor Day, University Holiday |
Sep 6 | Wed | Department/Faculty Meeting (cancelled) |
Sep 8 | Fri | VSRI: Images Out of Time Seminar
12-1:30pm PST RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Sep 8 | Fri | Last day to register, add/drop classes, waive/purchase tuition refund insurance. |
Sep 9 | Sat | VSRI: USC – LACMA History of Photography Seminar
10am PST RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Sep 13 | VSRI: Images Out of Time Seminar
12:30-2pm PST RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
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Sep 20 |
Wed | AHIS Works-In-Progress Talk – canceled |
Sep 23 | Sat | VSRI: Graduate Student Focus
10am-4:30pm PST RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Sep 25 | Mon | AHIS Travel and Research Award Applications due |
Sep 26 | Tue | VSRI: Graduate Student Focus
12:30-2pm PST RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Sep 28 | Thu | External Fellowship applications due |
Sep 30 | Sat | Student application documents for Getty Graduate Symposium are due |
Oct 2 | Mon | VSRI : Co-Sponsored and Of Interest
11am-2pm RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Oct 4 | Wed | Department/Faculty Meeting |
Oct 4 | Wed | Art History Afternoon Tea & Coffee Hour | THH 309 Main Lounge | 1-2 pm | All are welcome! Opportunity for undergraduates and faculty to socialize in an informal setting. |
Oct 11 | Wed | Event cancelled – AHIS Works-In-Progress Talk |
Oct 11 | Wed | (Note change of date – this event was previously scheduled on Oct 12)
VSRI: USC – LACMA History of Photography Seminar 12:30-2pm PST RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Oct 12-13 | Thu-Fri | Fall Recess |
Oct 18 | Wed | VSRI: Graduate Student Focus
12:30-2pm PST RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Oct 26 | Thu | VSRI: Images Out of Time Seminar
12:30-2pm PST RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Nov 1 | Wed | Department/Faculty Meeting |
Nov 1 | Wed | VSRI : Co-Sponsored and Of Interest
Time TBA RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. Please see https://dornsife.usc.edu/vsri/ for updates. |
Nov 3 | Fri | CHARM Jr. Faculty Event: Working on Book Proposals and Contracts, a zoom event led by Frederic Clark.
Zoom event: CHARM Events 11am-noon |
Nov 6 | Mon | A CHARMing conversation with opera singer Peter Braithwaite, author of Rediscovering Black Portraiture (Getty, 2023) who will discusses his experiences as a performer and his re-enactments/re-creations/revisions of Old Master portraits
Zoom Event: CHARM Events 11:00 am – 1:00 pm |
Nov 8 | VSRI: Graduate Student Focus
12:30-2pm PST VSGC Student Research Presentations RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. |
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Nov 10 | Fri | Veterans Day, Non-Instructional Day |
Nov 15 |
Wed | AHIS Works-In-Progress Talk | THH 309K | 12 – 1:20 pm | The talk will be followed by Q&A discussion | Join via ZOOM or IN PERSON Presentation by Kimia Shahi, “Reuben Tam’s Archipelagic Landscapes” ![]() Image: Reuben Tam, Monhegan Landform, 1974. Oil on canvas. The National Academy of Design.
Works in Progress series is organized by the graduate cohort and supports the ongoing work of our scholarly community by providing opportunities for intellectual exchange. If you would like to present a paper, please email a note of interest at your earliest convenience. WiP provides a supportive space to test out new research avenues, to practice delivering a paper, and to engage your colleagues in helpful critique. All members of our scholarly community (from first-year graduate students to faculty members) are welcome! |
Nov 22-26 | Wed-Sun | Thanksgiving Break |
Nov 29 |
Wed | AHIS Works-In-Progress Talk | THH 119 | 12 – 1:20 pm | Presentation by Luke Fidler | The talk will be followed by Q&A discussion | Join via ZOOM or IN PERSON
Works in Progress series is organized by the graduate cohort and supports the ongoing work of our scholarly community by providing opportunities for intellectual exchange. If you would like to present a paper, please email a note of interest at your earliest convenience. WiP provides a supportive space to test out new research avenues, to practice delivering a paper, and to engage your colleagues in helpful critique. All members of our scholarly community (from first-year graduate students to faculty members) are welcome! |
Nov 29 | Wed | VSRI: USC – LACMA History of Photography Seminar
5:30-7:30pm PST RSVP to vsri@usc.edu or email us for more information and to join our Slack channel. |
Dec 1 | Fri | End of Classes for Fall 2023 |
Dec 1 | Fri | CHARM and EALC Junior Faculty Book Manuscript Review of Book Manuscript by Prof. Mengxiao Wang (Performing Enlightenment:How Buddhists Reinvented Theater in Early Modern China).
RSVPis required. For more info, contact sonyasle@usc.edu . 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
Dec 5 | Tues | AHIS Department Holiday Event 4-8 pm. RSVP via Evite |
Dec 2-5 | Sat-Tue | Study Days |
Dec 6 | Wed | Department/Faculty Meeting |
Dec 6-13 | Wed-Wed | Final Exams Dec 6-13, 2023. Professors: Grades are due within four business days of scheduled final exam. |
Dec 14-Jan 7 | Winter Recess | |
2024 |
SPRING |
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Jan 8 | Mon | Start of Classes for Spring 2024 (Session 001 Jan 8 – Apr 26) |
Jan 12 | Fri | AHIS Spring Language Examination |
Jan 15 | Mon | Martin Luther King Jr Birthday, University Holiday |
Jan 17 | Wed | (tentative date/time) AHIS Works-In-Progress Talk | THH 309K | 12 – 1:30 pm | speaker TBA Getty Graduate Symposium USC Nominee |
Feb 2 | Fri | Getty Graduate Symposium |
Feb 19 | Mon | Presidents Day, University Holiday |
Mar 10-17 | Sun-Sun | Spring Recess |
Apr 26 | Fri | End of Classes for Spring 2024 |
Apr 27-30 | Sat-Tue | Study Days |
May 1-8 | Wed-Wed | Final Exams May 1-8, 2024. Professors: Grades are due within four business days of scheduled final exam. |
May 8 | Wed | Dornsife PhD Hooding Ceremony (date to be confirmed) |
May 8 | Wed | AHIS Department End of Year Celebration (details TBD) |
May 10 | Fri | USC Commencement Day Ceremonies
Department of Art History Reception |