Brown University students and faculty, both within HIAA and from departments across campus, are participating in this year's College Art Association conference in New York City. 

This annual conference brings together art historians, artists, designers, curators, and visual arts professionals. Faculty and students from HIAA and Brown presented their work at sessions during the weekend and including:

Gretel Rodríguez (Assistant Professor, HIAA)
Figural and Aniconic Representations of Mother Goddesses in Roman Gaul
Session: Anxieties of Divine Representation in the Pre-Modern World

Fosca Maddaloni-Yu (PhD Candidate, HIAA)
Riveting Encounters: Mounted Ceramics in the Oeuvre of John Hoffman (fl. 1577–1600), Stranger Silversmith in Elizabethan London
Session: Emblematic Encounters: Cross-Cultural Objects and Material Agency in the Early Modern World

Maria Taroutina (Slavic Studies)
Roundtable Participant from; The Art Bulletin Editorial Board
Session: The Urgency and Challenges of Academic Freedom, hosted by The Art Bulletin

Cicek Beeby (Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and the Ancient World)
Entanglements Between Human, Non-Human, and Posthuman in the Graves of Argos
Session: The Posthuman Personhood of the Dead in the Ancient Mediterranean

Patricia Ekpo (Nancy L. Buc ’65 LLD’94 hon Postdoctoral Fellow, Pembroke Center)
“Weathering: Beverly Buchanan’s Abstract Black Body”
Session: Personal and Global: Current Directions in Feminist Abstract and Abstractionist Art

Esther Whitfield (Associate Professor, Comparative Literature)
“Havana's Stray Dogs”
Session: Civic Gestures in Contemporary Cuban Art