Congratulations to CCS Professor of Asian Studies and Art History Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi on her recent invited presentation at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on Oct. 17, 2023! Dr. Gulácsi’s presentation, “The Life Cycle of the Sacred: Manichaeans Artifacts and their Curious Preservation at Buddhist Archaeological Sites across Medieval East Central China,” focused on a unique body of text and art that was produced for the purposes of Manichaean communities between the mid 8th and early 11th… Read more
Art History
Q & A with a CCS student!
We wanted to hear more from our students about why they are a part of the department, so we interviewed… Read more
Love museums? Interested in a career in museums? Join the Museum Studies Club during the last Thursday of every month in Cline Library room 249 at 7 p.m.!
Love museums? Interested in a career in museums? Join the Museum Studies Club during the last Thursday of every month in Cline Library room 249 at 7 p.m.!
Faculty News: CCS Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Dr. Alexandra Carpino has been invited to give a lecture titled “Marketing Motherhood: Etruscan Case Studies” at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago on October 12, 2023
CCS Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Dr. Alexandra Carpino has been invited to give a lecture titled “Marketing Motherhood: Etruscan Case Studies” at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago on October 12, 2023. She will discuss how one class of household artifacts – engraved bronze mirrors – depict mothers in particular, in the 4th century BCE.
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New website features work by CCS faculty and students
Congratulations to the Martin-Springer Institute on the completion of their digital exhibition “Stories of the Spanish Civil War.” The project featured student interns from across campus and several from CCS major and minor programs under the direction of CCS Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions and director of the Martin-Sprinter Institute Dr. Bjorn Krondorfer.
About the exhibit:
What can a simple fan tell us about war? Explore with us the Spanish Civil War through a fan signed in 1938 by… Read more
Call for Works! A Sense of Place: Identity, Community & Geography on the Colorado Plateau 2024-2025
Call for works!
2024-2025 Juried Two-Dimensional Art Exhibition “A Sense of Place: Identity, Community & Geography on the Colorado Plateau (Oct. 15, 2024-April 11, 2025) at the Clara M. Lovett Art Museum at Northern Arizona University and curated by NAU Art Museums Senior Curator Ty Miller and Associate Teaching Professor Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges. Learn more… Read more