Oil of Los Angeles

Planning Session for the First Annual Emory Elliott Conference

Planning Committee for the First Annual Emory Elliott Conference
November 17, 2009 @ 2:15 PM
History Department Library

All students, faculty, and staff are invited and encouraged to participate.

The major goal of our project is to put together a large scale colloquium of academic research by year’s end. The scope of the colloquium will be regional, with invitations sent out to all the institutions of higher education in southern California.

It is absolutely critical that we begin now if we are to have a successful venture this year--we already have support from crucial faculty members.

However, now is time for the student body to show its ability and interest in its own education, to take an active role in the university's future, and to foster the development of discourse and critical thought.

Interesting Talk!

New York City maps, history, and urbanism:

A Conversation between Colin Westerbeck and Graham Howe

Saturday, November 7, 2009
2:30 p.m.
UCR/ California Museum of Photography
3824 Main Street
Riverside, CA 92501

Graham Howe, Rock Form, Durras Lake, New South Wales, 2005

A wine & cheese reception will follow the discussion

El Mirador, Guatemala

Inside the Belltower @ UCR

http://www.belltower.ucr.edu/

AHA Grad School Workshop and Graduate and Professional School Fair

This Thursday, October 29, the Art History Association will be holding a Graduate School Workshop in HUB 268 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM. This event will come after the Career Center's Graduate School and Professional School Workshop which will be held from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM in the Rivera Library Walkway.

College Night at the Getty Villa

Last night, the Art History Association represented UCR at the Getty Villa's College Night!

44th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium: Incongruities

44th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium: Incongruities

Hosted by the UCLA Department of Art History, Incongruities brings together emerging scholars to discuss the roles that incongruity, disjuncture, and dissonance have played in definitions and uses of art throughout history. What role has the concept of incongruity played in the historicizing of art? When does the disjunction between method and object push us to expand the frameworks of art history? The keynote speaker is Dr. Helen Molesworth, head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and the James R. and Maisie K. Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums. The respondent, Dr. Ali Behdad, professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA, has published widely on Orientalism in literature and photography.

Support provided by the UCLA Friends of Art History, the UCLA Art Council, the UCLA Graduate Student Association, the Center for Student Programming, and the Department of Art History.

For more information, please email ah-incongruity@humnet.ucla.edu or visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu

http://happenings.ucla.edu/all/event/24554

UCR in Wikipedia

Many of you might remember that on February 21, 2009, UCR was featured on the front page of Wikipedia.

First Meeting this Thursday, October 15

AHA will be having its first meeting of the school year on Thursday, October 15 in HUB 367 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM.

See you all there!

Welcome Back BBQ

Hello AHA members,

It was great seeing new and returning members yesterday at our BBQ. Thanks for coming!

-Art History Association

Chancellor White Urges YOU to Voice Your Opinion!

On September 24, thousands of students, faculty, and staff across all UC campuses are engaging in a Day of Action to save access to public higher education in California. These actions have been endorsed by the University of California Students Association, which represents over 200,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at the University of California.

This message is to inform you on what will happen at UCR on September 24, and why different groups are getting involved. We are not saying that we expect you to participate. Ultimately, it is *your* decision, after getting informed on the issues, to decide if you want to get involved, and/or how.

WHY THIS ACTION?
The UC system, the world's premier public university, is now at a breaking point. Students are facing three fee hikes in two years, totaling over 40%, including a proposed 15% tuition increase for the middle of this year. Staff who support low-income and middle-income families are facing furloughs and pay cuts as much as 8%. Faculty are concerned about a future UC where thousands of eligible students are turned away, or take longer to finish their degrees. All are deeply concerned about the future of the UC system that remains affordable and accessible to California's residents.

WHAT IS HAPPENING AT UCR ON 9/24?

Teach-in: Speakers, hip-hop theater, and rallies from 10am to 3pm. The teach-in will occur at the corner of Canyon Crest and University Drive.

Strike: UPTE, representing 12,000 University Professional and Technical Employees, will strike and picket on 9/24. At UCR, the picket line is at the campus entrance at Canyon Crest and University.

Student and Faculty Walkout: Over 800 UC faculty, including 88 so far from UCR, have chosen to participate in the day's activities. The UC Student Association will participate in the walkout and is calling on all its members to get involved.

FOR MORE INFORMATION on the issues at stake for public higher education, see

Understanding the Crisis at UC:
http://keepcaliforniaspromise.org/?p=230

UCSA resolution:
http://www.ucsa.org/board/resolutions/UC%20Walk%20Out%20Resolution%20Final.pdf

Open Letter to UC Graduate Students:
http://www.gradstudentstoppage.com/

UPTE Strike:
http://www.upte.org/publication-mm/2009-08-31.html

UC Faculty Walkout:
http://ucfacultywalkout.com/

UCR Student Presents an Exhibition at RAM

Fourth year UCR student Melinda Foley presented the exhibition "Posters, Prints, and Propaganda" at the Riverside Art Museum during the exhibition's opening reception this past Thursday evening. Foley, an Art History major and an intern at the Riverside Art Museum, gave tours of the exhibition and explained the various printmaking techniques, methods, and history of printmaking to the numerous attendees. She designed the exhibition and was part of the team that helped put the entire exhibit together. The event coincided with the opening of "About Face," a concurrent exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum and with the city of Riverside's monthly Arts Walk.

Large crowds showed up to the opening reception (where free wine, cheese, and snacks were served!) including numerous members of the Art History Association at UCR.

"Posters, Prints, and Propaganda" will run from August 29 to October 31 and features 70 prints from the museum's permanent collection.