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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Susan Dackerman\, May 6
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Susan Dackerman on Wednesday\, May 6 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk\, The Paleontology of Print: Lithographic Limestone and the Nature of Reproducibility.  \nSummary: When in 1796\, the Munich playwright Alois Senefelder developed a method of printing from the surface of the local Bavarian limestone\, he was utilizing a material that had been reproducing indexical images for millions of years. The Jurassic-era limestone slabs were riddled with fossilized flora and fauna. The same year as Senefelder’s invention\, from study of the same Bavarian limestone\, the French naturalist Georges Cuvier recognized that some fossils in the stone were petrifications of species that were no longer extant\, establishing the idea of extinction. Prior to Cuvier\, fossils were imagined to be images made by Nature itself. Senefelder’s use of the local limestone was preceded by the stone’s use by regional sculptors such as Hans Daucher\, who around 1500 turned from marble to the native limestone because the characteristics of the stone suited precision carving. Many of the fossil-laden stone sculptures subsequently were used as templates to cast bronze copies\, conceptually replicating the stone’s capacity to cast fossils. Nearly 300 years later\, the stone’s generative potential again was exploited to make printed multiples known as lithographs. My paper imagines how examining the history of early modern sculpture and prints alongside the history of paleontology enables us to see how Nature\, and the contemporaneous historical theories that explicate it\, have informed the work of artists\, as well as shaped the history of print and replication. \nAll are welcome!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-colloquium-with-susan-dackerman-may-6/
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SUMMARY:Jolene Rickard to present the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture\, May 11
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lecture\, featuring Jolene Rickard\, Associate Professor\, Departments of Art History + Visual Studies\, Art American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program\, Cornell University. \nProfessor Rickard’s lecture is entitled\, “Creative Defiance as Sensory Ecologies.” \nThe Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lectureship was established in memory of UCLA alumna Gretchen Millson in December 2009 by her husband\, Dr. John J. Millson. Gretchen graduated from UCLA with a B.A. from the Department of Art in 1961. This endowed fund provides much-needed resources to the department to allow us to grow and continue our longstanding tradition of excellence. For more information\, click here. \nThe presentation\, with a reception to follow\, will be held on Monday\, May 11\, 2026 at 4 PM at the Luskin Conference Center’s Laureate Room. \nKindly RSVP by May 4 to ycastellanos@support.ucla.edu or 310-825-0913.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/jolene-rickard-to-present-the-2026-gretchen-taylor-millson-lecture-may-11/
LOCATION:UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Art Council Lecture Series – A Conversation with Annemarie Jacir
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 20\, at 2 PM\, PT the Art History Department will host Writer and Director\, Annemarie Jacir for a conversation about her film “Palestine 36.” \nMs. Jacir will be appearing virtually for this event.  Guests may attend in-person in Dodd 247 or attend via webinar. \nKindly RSVP here to receive the webinar information prior to this event.  All are welcome!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/art-council-lecture-series-a-conversation-with-annemarie-jacir/
LOCATION:UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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