2023

 FALL

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
Fisher Gallery Courtyard
VSGC Back to School Reception

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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
Hybrid
BOOK DISCUSSION: Adam Jasienski’s new
book, Praying to Portraits: Audience,
Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early
Modern Hispanic World
An asynchronous social reading group is open
now at perusall.com with course code:
PON-WJVWQ .

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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
Zoom
Dioramas, Life-Casts, and the Lives of
Sensitive Images: When Was This? And Did
It Ever Happen?
NOÉMIE ETIENNE
Professor of Cultural Heritage and Art History,
University of Vienna

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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
Getty Research Institute
EXHIBITION TOUR: Alfredo Boulton: Looking
at Venezuela (1928-1978)
IDURRE ALONSO
Curator of Latin American Collections,
Getty Research Institute

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Sep 13 VSRI: Images Out of Time Seminar

12:30-2pm PST
SOS 250
Bousbir, Casablanca’s Colonial Red Light
District
JEAN-FRANÇOIS STASZAK
Professor, Department of Geography,
Université de Genève

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Sep 20
Wed AHIS Works-In-Progress Talk  – canceled
Sep 23 Sat VSRI: Graduate Student Focus

10am-4:30pm PST
SOS 250
CV and Grant Writing Workshop
GIAN-MARIA ANNOVI
Associate Professor of Italian and
Comparative Literature, USC
WEIHONG BAO
Associate Professor, Department of Film and
Media, Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures, UC Berkeley
KIMIA SHAHI
Assistant Professor, Art History, USC
JENNIFER TUCKER
Professor, Department of History; Program in
Science and Society, Wesleyan University

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Sep 25  Mon AHIS Travel and Research Award Applications due
Sep 26 Tue VSRI: Graduate Student Focus

12:30-2pm PST
SOS 250

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Sep 28 Thu External Fellowship applications due
Sep 30 Sat Student application documents for Getty Graduate Symposium are due

upload via Google form

Oct 2 Mon VSRI : Co-Sponsored and Of Interest

11am-2pm
Zoom: Register here
BOOK TALK: Praying to Portraits: Audience,
Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early
Modern Hispanic World
ADAM JASIENSKI
Assistant Professor, Art History,
Southern Methodist University
Sponsored by Collaborations in History, Art,
Religion, and Music (CHARM)

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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
Zoom
Nos Images: Intersecting Colonial and
African Photography in Postwar Belgian
Congo
SANDRINE COLARD
Assistant Professor of African Art History,
Rutgers University, Newark

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Oct 12-13 Thu-Fri Fall Recess
Oct 18 Wed VSRI: Graduate Student Focus

12:30-2pm PST
SOS 250

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Oct 26 Thu VSRI: Images Out of Time Seminar

12:30-2pm PST
SOS 250
Lenin’s Shadow in Hanoi and Other
Responses to Monuments by Contemporary
Vietnamese Artists in the Age of
Decoloniality
NORA A. TAYLOR
Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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Nov 1 Wed Department/Faculty Meeting
Nov 1 Wed VSRI : Co-Sponsored and Of Interest

Time TBA
Zoom
Six Memos for The Present:
A Lecture Series Honoring Italo Calvino’s
Centennial 1923-2023
Visibility
GIAN-MARIA TOSATTI
Artist
Lecture series co-sponsored by The Italian
Cultural Institute, USC Departments of French and
Italian, Comparative Literature, and English

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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
SOS 250

VSGC Student Research Presentations
Graduate Student Recipients of VSGC

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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
SOS 250
Alternative Visions in the Institutional
Archive: Haim Shmuel Mizrahi’s Albums and
the Zionist Movement
ROTEM ROZENTAL
Executive Director,
Los Angeles Center of Photography

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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 .

CHARM Events

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.

https://classes.usc.edu/term-20233/finals/

Dec 14-Jan 7 Winter Recess

2024

 

SPRING

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