SCS 2018 Seminar in The Use of Art and Material Culture in Scholarship and Teaching
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The seminar is structured in broadly chronological terms, from Greece and the Near East to Rome and the West. Three two-hour classes are planned each week (MWF 10-12) around an over-arching theme, outlined below. Two additional two-hour sessions (TR 1-3) are planned each week to provide students with guided study regarding their projects. Excursions to local artists’ workshops and to Chicago/St. Louis are planned for the end of each week
Week 1 (May 21-25)
Introduction to Museum Studies (history of collection, acquisition and development, and conservation), digitization and imaging labs
Guest speakers: Dr. Maureen Warren and Professor Susan Frankenberg
Excursion: St. Louis Art Museum
Week 2 (May 28-June 1)
Archaic and Classical Greece: Parthenon frieze, sculpture, inscriptions
Guest speaker: Professor John Senseney
Activity: Visit local studios (glass)
Week 3 (June 4-8)
Archaic and Classical Greece: Vases
Guest speaker: Professor Susan Rotroff
Activity: Visit local studios (pottery)
Week 4 (June 11-15)
Etruscan and Roman: Ara Pacis, pottery, sculpture
Guest speaker: Professor Sinclair Bell and Dr. Katherine Kreindler
Excursion: Art Institute of Chicago
Week 5 (June 18-22)
Numismatics: Greek and Roman coins
Guest speaker: Professor James Dengate
Week 6 (June 25-29)
Analysing and Synthesizing
Student research reports