Constellations Groups and Activities

For information on the specific courses that we have developed as part of implementing constellations, click here.

Working Groups in the Constellations

As of Spring, 2013, individual constellations have begun meeting regularly within their own working groups. Click on each constellation description below for an account of what its associated working group has been doing. The working groups see faculty and graduate students, united by common research interests, discuss agreed upon readings, critique each other’s work, organize exhibitions, contribute to one another’s pedagogy, jointly produce scholarship, and converse with outside scholars who have contributed to the constellation in question. 

Colloquia in the Constellations

Additionally, the department colloquium, which takes place Wednesdays at noon, provides faculty and students the opportunity to showcase recent research in the constellations.  

VISUAL  KNOWLEDGE	image/text relations, representational theory, historiography, museums, media Faculty: Drew Armstrong, Isabelle Chartier, Josh Ellenbogen, Shirin Fozi, Karen Gerhart, Alison Langmead, Kathy Linduff, Kirk Savage, Terry Smith, Frank Toker More about Visual Knowledge
AGENCY	ritual, cult objects, idolatry and iconoclasm, patronage, collecting, propaganda Faculty: Gretchen Bender, Isabelle Chartier, Josh Ellenbogen, Karen Gerhart, Jennifer Josten, Kathy Linduff, Barbara McCloskey, Kirk Savage More about Agency
IDENTITY	monuments and memory, communities and polities, publics, gender, ethnicity, class, race Faculty: Drew Armstrong, Gretchen Bender, Shirin Fozi, Karen Gerhart, Jennifer Josten, Kathy Linduff, Kirk Savage, Terry Smith More about Identity
MOBILITY/ EXCHANGE	migration, pilgrimage, exploration, tourism, frontiers, contact zones, trade and consumerism Faculty: Drew Armstrong, Gretchen Bender, Isabelle Chartier, Karen Gerhart, Jennifer Josten, Alison Langmead, Kathy Linduff, Barbara McCloskey, Kirk Savage, Terry Smith More about Mobility/Exchange
CONTEMPORANEITY	world picturing, cosmopolitanism, temporality, tradition and modernity Faculty: Isabelle Chartier, Josh Ellenbogen, Shirin Fozi, Jennifer Josten, Alison Langmead, Barbara McCloskey, Kirk Savage, Gao Minglu, Terry Smith More about Contemporaneity
ENVIRONMENT	landscape, urbanism, gardens, ecocriticism, historic preservation, architectural history and theory Faculty: Drew Armstrong, Gretchen Bender, Karen Gerhart, Kathy Linduff, Mina Rajagopalan, Kirk Savage, Terry Smith, Frank Toker More about Environment

 

The Constellations program has a collaborative web space. Please click here to learn more.