108th College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, February 12–15, 2020
The CAA Annual Conference brings together over 5,000 art historians, artists, designers, and visual arts professionals in all stages of their careers. Each year we offer over 300 sessions, selected by the CAA Council of Readers and the Annual Conference Committee, representing the vast scholarship and practice of CAA members. CAA 2020 includes a full program of workshops, distinguished speaker panels, opportunities to network, and a celebrated Book and Trade Fair.
Sessions of interest to Byzantinists:
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2020: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Aesthetics of the Spiritual in Contemporary Art
Chair: Mary McGuire (Mt. San Antonio College)
Simulations at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel
Jessamine Batario (Lunder Institute for American Art, Colby College)
Sacred/Secular: Rummana Hussain's Politics of Signification
Rattanamol Singh Johal (Columbia University in the City of New York)
Political Spirituality in Theaster Gates's and Danh Vo's Work
Donato Loia (University of Texas at Austin)
Church of Art: A Sermon for Those Who Have Lost Their Faith - Artist Performance
Veronique d'Entremont
Back to Antiquity: The heuristic Potentials of Provenance Studies of Archaeological Artifacts
Chair: Cécile Colonna (INHAA)
A register of Antiquities’ sales in France in the 19th century: A digital maping of collectors
Neguine Mathieux (Louvre)
Provenance Studies and the Passion for Ivory Artifacts
Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University)
Ancient Greek vases from Athens to Vulci and beyond... A view from American Museum’s Collections
Christian Mazet
The Construction and 'Deconstruction' of an Ancient Egyptian Mummy Footboard
Jennifer Gail Thum (Harvard Art Museums)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Reassessing “Lateness:” Issues of Periodization and Style in Late Medieval Architecture
Chairs: Alice Isabella Sullivan (Getty/ACLS) and Kyle G. Sweeney (Winthrop University)
Relativizing the Lateness of Late Gothic: Contrasting Approaches
Robert O. Bork (The University of Iowa)
Old Styles Die Hard: Late Gothic, Classicism, and Architectural Nostalgia in Venetian Cyprus
Michalis Olympios
Ropes and Knots: A Contribution to the History of Emulatio in the Architecture of the Late 15th and Early 16th Centuries North of the Alps
Marek Walczak (ul. Grodzka 53 31-001 Kraków, Poland)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Architectural Representation and Medieval Art
Chair: Jenny H. Shaffer (New York University - School of Professional Studies)
Cityscapes in Stone: Making and Meaning in Twelfth-Century Architectural Sculpture
Kathleen Nolan (Hollins University)
Synagogal Representation in the First Darmstadt Haggadah and the Fate of Heidelberg's Jews
Karen E. Blough (SUNY Plattsburgh - Department of Art)
The Church Model in Late Medieval Votive Images in Eastern Europe
Alice Isabella Sullivan (Getty/ACLS)
Moving and Smelling Micro-Architecture: Medieval Censers East and West
Loretta Vandi (Scuola del Libro, Urbino)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Buildings in Bloom: Foliage and Architecture in the Global Middle Ages (International Center of Medieval Art)
Chairs: Meg Bernstein (University of California, Los Angeles) and Emogene Cataldo (Columbia University)
Introduction: Thinking Globally about Foliage in Architecture
Meg Bernstein (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Natural World in Early Islamic Architecture
Ann T. Shafer (Harvard AKPIA)
Underground Blossom: Peony, Spatiality, and Entanglement in Tombs of the Liao Dynasty (916-1125 CE)
Fan Zhang (Tulane University)
Sociality and Botanical Form in Early Christian Architecture
Andrew Griebeler
The Case for Studying Foliage: Notre-Dame of Amiens and Beyond
Emogene Cataldo (Columbia University)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2020: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Gold Argues the Cause: Textiles, Materials and Technologies in Eurasia, 1200-1400
Chair: Amanda Phillips (University of Virginia)
Discussant: Melinda Watt (Art Institute of Chicago)
Underside Couching from the Byzantine World: New Evidence from the Chungul Kurgan Burial
Warren T. Woodfin (Queens College, CUNY)
Going Global: The Spread of Gold Thread Production in the Mongol Period (13th-14th centuries)
Eiren Lee Shea (Grinnell College)
Ambition and the Limits of Technology: Sultan Bayezid’s Silk
Amanda Phillips (University of Virginia)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2020: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Unlearning Art History: Anti-Racist Work in PreModern Fields (Association for Critical Race Art History)
Chairs: Maggie M. Williams (William Paterson University) and Camara D. Holloway (Association for Critical Race Art History)
Discussant: Adriana Zavala (US Latinx/Art Forum (USLAF))
Whose Middle Ages? Medieval Art and the Political Moment
Nina A. Rowe (Fordham University)
Displaying Armenia
Earnestine Qiu (Princeton University)
Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages
Roland Betancourt (University of California, Irvine)
Online registration closed. Onsite registration available.