Art History Content / Art History Content for ٺƵ en Don Roth on the ‘Recovered Voices’ Project /news/podcasts-and-shows/the-backdrop/don-roth-recovered-voices-project Mondavi Center Executive Director Don Roth discusses the “Recovered Voices” project highlighting composers and works derailed by the Nazi regime. May 16, 2023 - 12:31am Soterios J Johnson /news/podcasts-and-shows/the-backdrop/don-roth-recovered-voices-project ‘The Backdrop’ Podcast Features the Mondavi Center for the Arts’ Executive Director on Program Highlighting Composers and Works Derailed by the Nazi Regime /news/backdrop-podcast-features-mondavi-center-arts-executive-director-program-highlighting <p><span><span><span><span><span>In the 1930s and ’40s, the Nazi regime in Germany and elsewhere in Europe banned and destroyed what it deemed “degenerate art” — modern styles of lit</span></span></span></span></span></p> May 17, 2023 - 10:00am Soterios J Johnson /news/backdrop-podcast-features-mondavi-center-arts-executive-director-program-highlighting Art Historian Wins Fellowship to Complete Mexico City Research /news/art-historian-wins-fellowship-complete-mexico-city-research <figure role="group" class="caption caption-drupal-media align-left"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-sf-small"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/lopez_headshot.jpeg?itok=cKzvEp_R" width="200" height="113" alt="John Lopez Headshot" typeof="Image" class="image-style-sf-small-width"> </div> <figcaption>John Lopez has received an award from the American Council of Learned Societies.</figcaption> </figure> <p>John Lopez, assistant professor of art history, has received an award from</p> April 30, 2021 - 11:35am Karen Michele Nikos /news/art-historian-wins-fellowship-complete-mexico-city-research Art History Grad Takes Art Curious Podcast to Book Form /arts/blog/art-history-grad-takes-art-curious-book <p><em>Written by Jeffrey Day, College of Letters and Science. To see the full story, go&nbsp;<a href="https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/art-history-alumna-wants-make-everyone-artcurious"><strong>here</strong></a>.</em></p> November 24, 2020 - 11:25am Karen Michele Nikos /arts/blog/art-history-grad-takes-art-curious-book What Happens to Cultural Rights With Hagia Sophia Transformation? /curiosity-gap/what-happens-cultural-rights-hagia-sophia-transformation <p class="clear"><em>Two University of California Davis faculty gave commentaries on the conversion of the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque last month, both finding that the change represents the loss of an important cultural icon. One researcher is a law professor specializing in human rights. The other, an art and architecture historian.</em></p> <p class="clear"><em>Both voiced concerns regarding:</em></p> August 04, 2020 - 3:54pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity-gap/what-happens-cultural-rights-hagia-sophia-transformation ٺƵ Wins $250,000 in History Grants /curiosity/news/uc-davis-receives-250000-two-national-endowment-humanities-awards <p>The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded two grants to the University of California, Davis — one to advance kindergarten-through-12th-grade instruction on the Chinese experience in California history and the other to support an art history professor in her study of a medieval Armenian city.</p> August 03, 2020 - 12:56pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity/news/uc-davis-receives-250000-two-national-endowment-humanities-awards Heghnar Watenpaugh Wins Guggenheim Fellowship /news/heghnar-watenpaugh-wins-guggenheim-fellowship <div> <p>Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh,&nbsp;ٺƵ art history professor, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, among 175 given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to mid-career scholars, artists and scientists who have demonstrated a previous capacity for outstanding work and continue to show exceptional promise.</p></div> April 13, 2020 - 10:36am Karen Michele Nikos /news/heghnar-watenpaugh-wins-guggenheim-fellowship Historical Highlights of the ٺƵ Department of Art and TB 9, 1958-76 /curiosity/news/historical-highlights-uc-davis-department-art-and-tb-9-1958-1976 <p>Temporary Building 9, or TB 9, on the ٺƵ campus, was nationally recognized for its importance in art history with its inclusion on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/16000153.htm">National Register of Historic Places</a>. Here is a chronology of its history.</p> June 10, 2019 - 2:51pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity/news/historical-highlights-uc-davis-department-art-and-tb-9-1958-1976 Art Historian Finds Missing Pages of Armenian History /arts/art-historian-finds-missing-pages-armenian-history <p><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/extra/?id=23162&amp;i=Prologue.html&amp;src=carousel"><em>The Missing Pages</em>,</a> recently&nbsp;published by Stanford University Press, took art historian Heghnar Watenpaugh to the places the pages had traveled, from their creation in 1256 in present-day Turkey, to Armenia, Syria, Ellis Island, Massachusetts and Los Angeles.</p> April 12, 2019 - 1:19pm Karen Michele Nikos /arts/art-historian-finds-missing-pages-armenian-history International Colloquium Launches Global Tea Initiative /news/international-colloquium-launches-global-tea-initiative <p>ٺƵ will launch its <a href="http://ls.ucdavis.edu/global-tea/global-tea.html">Global Tea Initiative</a>&nbsp;with a symposium bringing together the cultural and scientific aspects of the world’s most popular prepared beverage. The colloquium, “The Basics of Tea: Tea and People,” is a first step in creating a center for the study of tea culture and science on campus.&nbsp;</p> May 02, 2016 - 1:12pm Lindsey Alexandra OTousa /news/international-colloquium-launches-global-tea-initiative