Timely

• HIAA offices will close for winter break on Monday, Dec. 21, and reopen on Monday, Jan. 4. Please contact Nancy_Safian@brown.edu or Diana_Adamczyk@brown.edu if you have questions during the holiday. Have a safe winter break!

Course Information

• Fill out the Critical Review by Dec. 18th, using the links sent to your email, to be entered in a drawing for free Airpod Pros!

Happenings

• Asynchronous: Don't miss the virtual Fall 2020 exhibition from HIAA 0010, Global History of Art and Architecture. The site presents each student’s final project or paper abstract, along with images associated with their work.
• Dec. 14 @ 3 pm: The students in MUSC 2180, Issues of Time and Space in New Music, will virtually hold their final performance. Under Professor Wang Lu, this seminar considered how time and space are orchestrated through music, such as through electronic composition and the physicality of instruments. 
• Dec. 14 @ 4 pm: Tune into Desmond Upton Patton’s lecture, “Expressions of Grief and Trauma on the Streets of Chicago,” about the real-world impact that expressions of violence, grief, and identity have on low-income youth of color. Learn more and register. 
• Dec. 15 @ 6 pm: The Africana Studies department will commemorate the Rites and Reason Theatre’s anniversary as the oldest, continuously producing Black theatre in New England. They will also celebrate the phenomenal leadership of the Senior Managing Director of 32 years, Karen Allen Baxter, who will retire this month. Learn more and register. 

Opportunities for Undergraduates  

• Be sure to fill out this department mentorship questionnaire. Following a successful run this past summer, the department is excited to continue fostering relationships between students and our large network of HIAA alumni. The more we know about your interests, the better we can connect you with our alumni! 
• Process: Journal of Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Scholarship is holding a call for papers until Jan. 4, 2020 for Issue 5.2, “On Sustaining.” Critical essays as well as multimodal pieces (poems, short stories, digital artifacts) are welcome! Send all questions to processj@uw.edu and find more information and submission requirements. 
• Submit by Feb. 1, 2021 to the Bowdoin Journal of Art, one of the only academic art publications that uniquely feature undergraduate work in art history. Email journalofart@bowdoin.edu with an attached Word document of your essay, along with your bibliography, any images you reference, and an abstract (100-175 words). 
• The Center for Language Studies is looking for volunteers for its open hours (Mondays 6-7 pm, currently through Zoom). If you are a native/experienced/ advanced speaker of languages that range from Yoruba to Turkish, from ASL to Spanish, be sure to fill out this interest form.
• Application deadline is January 15 for the Department of Art MFA Program at University of New Mexico. For more information on how to apply you can email, art255@unm.edu.

• Submit abstracts by Tuesday, Dec. 15 to the University of Virginia’s Art History Graduate Symposium, The [After]Lives of Objects: Transposition in the Material World, which will be held March 18-19 via Zoom. Send all abstracts, CVs, and questions to uvaartandarch@gmail.com. More information. 
• Submit abstracts by Jan. 8, 2021 to the 11th Annual Rutgers University Art History Graduate Symposium, Mnemonic Aesthetics: Memory and Trauma in Art, which will be held virtually on April 22-23, 2021. Send abstracts and current CV, and any questions, to rutgersarthistorygradsymposium@gmail.com. More information.

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