Banner artwork: Yoon Hwang, MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art. After Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross, ca. 1610, drawing—pencil and crayon on paper, 2023. Artwork courtesy of Yoon Hwang.

On the occasion of her retirement, the Lamar Dodd School of Art invites you to celebrate and reflect on the work and legacy of Dr. Shelley Zuraw, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Art History at the Lamar Dodd School of Art specializing in Italian Renaissance art. 

Lunch Details

If you wish to join is for lunch, please RSVP to Asen Kirin aekirin@uga.edu with your choice of sandwich or salad by 5 pm on November 7, 2023!

1. Turkey with Provolone & Mango Chutney
2. French Ham with Swiss Cheese & Pickles
3. Mozzarella/Tomato/Basil (vegetarian)
4. Hummus & Veggies on Ciabatta (*can be Vegan)
5. House Salad + Turkey (*can be GF)
6. Greek Salad + Turkey (*can be GF)

Each – includes a cookie & bag of chips

Symposium Program

Morning Session

9:00 am – 9:10 am

Introduction, Asen Kirin — Professor, Lamar Dodd School of Art

9:10 am – 10:30am

Asen Kirin — Professor, Lamar Dodd School of Art

Noah Dasinger, M.A. Art History 2022, UGA, Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania State University, "What Was He Trying to Tell Us? Donatello's Signatures in Context" 

Maria Lundin, M.A. Art History 2006, UGA, Instructor, University of West Georgia, "Painting an Imitation:  Andrea del Castagno and the Fascination of Fictive Stone"

Hannah Williams, M.A. Art History 2020, UGA, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Affective Piety and the Significance of Boxwood in the Late Middle Ages.” 

Emily DuVall, M.A. Art History 2019, UGA, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Parrots, Princes, and Popes: Translatio Imperii in a Portrait of François Ier”

Coffee

10:45 am – 11:15 am

Mid-morning Session

Lecture delivered as a part of the public defense of a doctoral dissertation

11:15 am - 12:00 pm

Moderator: Asen Kirin

Megan Neely, M.A. Art History 2015, Ph.D. Art History 2023, UGA, "The Flaying of Marsyas or the Judgment of Midas: Titian's self-portrait 'in malo'

Lunch

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm

Afternoon Session

1:40 pm – 3:20 pm

Moderator: Shelley Zuraw

Bermet Nishanova, B.A./B.S. in Art History and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2013 , UGA, Second-year Ph.D. student at University of California Irvine, “Entangled materiality of Islamic Textiles in Central Asia, 8th-12th centuries” 

Michael P. Kemling, M.A. Art History 2003, Ph.D. Art History 2013, UGA, Sr. Lecturer, University of North Georgia, Gainesville Campus, “Gifts from the North: Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, and the Introduction of the Autonomous Self-portrait in Italy” 

Shannon N. Pritchard, Ph.D., M.A. Art History 2003, Ph.D. Art History 2010, UGA, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Southern Indiana (Evansville, IN), “Symbolic Pilgrimage in Caravaggio’s Madonna di Loreto”

Tiffanie P. Townsend, M.A. Art History 1996, Ph.D. Art History 2003, UGA, Associate Professor of Art History, Georgia Southern University, “Rosso Fiorentino’s Multivalent Holy Family”

Concluding Remarks

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm