GILD Events
A new “Group for the Intellectual Life of the Department” has been formed—GILD. Through its new initiatives GILD is committed to creating, invigorating, and sustaining the intellectual life of the Department. New initiatives begun under its auspices include an Art History Graduate Student Reading Group, in which students read a faculty member’s work, and then meet with her or him to discuss the reading in an informal setting. The goal is to increase interest and respect for the many approaches to art history in practice within department, and provide an opportunity to get to know fellow students and faculty both socially and intellectually. As well, we will begin an Art History Workshop Series in which faculty members or other art history/museum people meet on a regular basis with graduate students to discuss various practical concerns related to the field. A Graduate Student Mentor Program has also been put in place, which will match all incoming graduate students with a senior graduate student beginning Fall 2006. A Quarterly Seminar-Paper Presentation Series will also begin this year. At the end of each quarter the faculty will choose one or two students from each graduate seminar to present an outstanding seminar paper to be delivered to the whole department in a public setting. Brown-Bag Lectures (noon lectures) will continue to be given by faculty members and other colleagues to discuss current research, exhibitions, and new programs. In addition to these new initiatives GILD will continue to schedule all existing lecture series in the department.
For upcoming GILD events, please visit the History of Art Calendar of Events.