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�鶹AV’s History of Art Department was well-represented this year at the in New York City. The annual conference was held from February 13-16, 2019.

Assistant Professor Sylvia Houghteling co-chaired a session with her colleague Vera-Simone Schulz of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz at the Max-Planck-Institut. The February 15^th session was titled “Textile Ecologies: Environmental Aesthetics and Transmaterial Dynamics of Cloth.” Professor David Cast chaired the panel “Antiquarianism in Art. Ideology of Representation during the Renaissance: The Grotesques.”

Special Collections Curator Carrie Robbins and Ph.D. Candidate Laurel Vera Mclaughlin gave the paper “Learning from Tania El Khoury’s ear-whispered at �鶹AV in the session “‘When Home Won’t Let You Stay’: Art and Migration in the 21^st Century.” Their paper was a reflection on the recent Tania El Khoury exhibition ear whispered at �鶹AV.

Also in attendance were History of Art graduate students Meg Hankel, Emily Leifer, Elliot Martin, and Michelle Smiley.

A reception for �鶹AV History of Art alumnae/i, faculty, and students was held on February 14^th at the New York Hilton Midtown.

The at the Hilton Chicago.