GradForum Visiting Scholar Dr. Jennifer Borland
The Art History GradForum invites you to join us for two upcoming events with visiting scholar Dr. Jennifer Borland, Assistant Professor of Art History at Oklahoma State University.
Dr. Borland will present her lecture, “Touching the Medieval: Considering the Phenomenology of Visual Culture,” on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 5:00 PM in the Elvehejem Building, L150.
Professor Borland will also conduct a Brown-Bag Lunch Workshop for graduate students the following Friday, April 27, at 12:00 PM.
Dr. Borland will present her lecture, “Touching the Medieval: Considering the Phenomenology of Visual Culture,” on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 5:00 PM in the Elvehejem Building, L150.
Professor Borland will also conduct a Brown-Bag Lunch Workshop for graduate students the following Friday, April 27, at 12:00 PM.
“Touching the Medieval: Considering the Phenomenology of Visual Culture”
How should we think about the connections between the present and the past that material objects create? This paper focuses on a particular twelfth-century manuscript, one that has sustained significant damage at the hands of past users, as a point of departure for a broader discussion about the methodologies employed by historians of visual and material culture.
When we touch this manuscript today, we not only connect to the book’s moment of creation, but also are reminded of the 800 years of readers, viewers, and handlers who have contributed to the complex network of experiences strewn between then and now. Are these networks important, and if so, how might we better theorize such experiences and their connections? What kinds of objects and images lend themselves to such phenomenological inquiry?
This lecture is sponsored by the Art History GradForum, Department of Art History, Medieval Studies Program, Center for Visual Cultures, Kohler Art Library.
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Jennifer Borland is an art historian specializing in medieval art and architecture, and teaches courses in medieval, Islamic and Renaissance art history at Oklahoma State University. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University in 2006, and joined the OSU faculty in 2007. Borland’s research and teaching interests range from medieval theories of corporeality and vision, to audience and reception, representations of gender, medical and scientific imagery, feminist theory, and cinema studies.
http://art.okstate.edu/faculty/borland.php
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