• Offices will be closed on Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
• Apply for BAI grants by mid-February: The Brown Arts Initiative offers several grant opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students. Applications for the Student Grant program close on Feb. 10, and applications for the David Dornstein '85 Artist Grant close on Feb. 15. A new Creative Artwork Grant is also available through VSA, the Bell Gallery and the BAI with a deadline of February 10. For all inquiries regarding these opportunities please contact the BAI (ArtsInitiative@brown.edu) or visit the BAI Student Grant website.

Course Information

• Classes begin remotely on Jan. 20.
• Consider taking a class in our department! History of Art and Architecture has gathered many of our Spring and Summer course offerings into thematic groups to show patterns of general interest. For questions on taking a course and getting involved in our department, please reach out to our Department Undergraduate leaders.

Happenings

• Jan. 18 @ 5 pm: The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA) will stream their Martin Luther King Day celebration on their website, as well as on Facebook and YouTube. The program, entitled “Voices on King,” will feature nonprofit, corporate, and community leaders, as well as performances by Danny Rivera and Boston's poet laureate, Porsha Olayiwola.
• Jan. 19 @ 6pm and Jan. 21 @ noon: The Whitney Museum’s will present the next two installments of their Art History from Home series. "Art and Social Change" will take place on Jan. 19, and "Working Together: Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop" will take place on Jan. 21.
• Jan. 21 @ 5pm: Cogut Institute's Meet the Fellows, Spring Edition, includes virtual speed talks by 11 fellows discussing their humanities research. HIAA's Post-Doctoral Research Associate Jessica Stair, will be presenting. Registration is required. 
• Jan. 27 @ noon: The next segment of the Provost's Race & Image in America series will feature a conversation among Brown University faculty: Tina Campt (Humanities, Modern Culture and Media), Matthew Guterl, (Africana Studies, American Studies), Kevin Quashie (English), and RaMell Ross, (Visual Arts). 

Opportunities for Undergraduates  

• HIAA is seeking an undergraduate TA in HIAA 0100, Architectural Design Studios, taught by Prof. Julian von der Schulenburg. Applicants should be seniors with excellent conceptual and architectural design abilities, skills in Rhino, Photoshop, InDesign, and photography, an ability to work independently, and a passion for architecture. For more information, contact Nancy_Safian@brown.edu or apply on Workday (REQ169051).
• The Brown Arts Initiative is seeking a remote Research Assistant (undergraduate or graduate). Avery Willis Hoffman, Artistic Director of the Brown Arts Initiative, is seeking a research assistant to survey, compile and analyze information surrounding the various aspects of programming at prominent Performing Arts Centers and local arts organizations. Student should have strong research and citational skills, and design experience and be able to conduct research, and compile analysis, on the organizational structure and programming of prominent Performing Arts Centers around the country, at local arts organizations, specifically with regards to programming choices. For more information see listing in Workday.
• On Jan. 22 at 3 pm, there will be a student job fair with representatives from administrative and academic departments at Brown who are seeking student workers. Students will be able to gather information on positions at multiple departments. Contact student_employment@brown.edu for more information.
• Apply by Feb. 8 to present at the 3rd undergraduate symposium hosted by the Art History Association at SUNY New Paltz. They welcome papers focusing on any topic or scholarly approach within the field of Art History. Each talk will be 10 minutes in length, followed by a brief Q&A session. Send abstracts of 300 words or less to heuerk@newpaltz.edu along with your name, major, academic year, institutional affiliation, and email.  

Opportunities for Graduate Students 

• The Cogut Institute Graduate Fellowship Application deadline is January 22, 2021. The Cogut Institute sponsors year-long graduate fellowships in the humanities. Students currently in the 3rd, 4th, or 5th year of their doctoral program are eligible to apply. Fellows receive office space at the Institute and are expected to participate actively in its weekly seminar. Please see link for more information.
• Submit by Feb. 15 to The University of Oregon Art History Student Association’s 17th Annual Graduate Symposium, entitled Tangible: Expanded Materiality and Art History. It will be held virtually on Saturday, Apr. 17, 2021. Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, a paper title, and a current CV to uosymposium@gmail.com.
• Apply by Mar. 15 for the United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship, designed to support research and publications on the history, art, architecture, or landscape of the U.S. Capitol and related buildings. Graduate students and scholars may apply for periods ranging from one to twelve months; the stipend is $2,500.00 per month and the fellowship period will run from Sept. 2021 to Aug. 2022. Applications should be e-mailed in PDF format to Dr. Michele Cohen, Curator and Architect of the Capitol at mcohen@aoc.gov. Visit www.uschs.org for more information.

Meet the Fellows: Welcome to the Cogut Institute

The Cogut Institute is Brown's hub for research in the Humanities, sponsoring numerous workshops, seminars, fellowships and grants aimed at enriching interdisciplinary study in the humanities. Learn more about Cogut's exciting humanities research through virtual speed talks with the ten Cogut Fellows, taking place January 21 at 5pm via Zoom.

These undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty fellows will speak about their research and what brought them to a range of questions and topics that matter deeply.

We are delighted that HIAA Postdoctoral Research Associate, Jessica Stair, will be presenting her work on January 21. She will discuss discourses of authenticity that surround a corpus of indigenous manuscripts from central Mexico known as the Techialoyans. Jessica's book manuscript “Indigenous Literacies in the Techialoyan Manuscripts of New Spain,” considers how indigenous artists and scribes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries invented new iconographies and modes of reading and writing at a time when alphabetic script had become a dominant mode of communication.