Temporalities
April 18, 2022
Author: Anika Agarwal
My time as an intern at the University Art Gallery allowed me to learn about and contribute to the critical work that goes into...
December 8, 2021
Author: Mythri Sundar
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) works to connect visual artists with audiences and displays artists’ work in exhibitions...
April 17, 2021
Author: Madeline Conigliaro
When people think of natural history museums some of the first exhibits that come to mind are mummied human remains or as many...
November 20, 2020
Author: Victoria Swindle
This fall I interned for the Senator John Heinz History Center here in Pittsburgh. Given the current situation, I was working...
November 18, 2020
Author: Melanie Pantano
To finish out my final semester at Pitt, I had the opportunity to be a Museum Studies Intern at Silver Eye Center for Photography...
April 22, 2020
Author: Ashton Crawley
For as long as I can remember, I’ve simply loved old things. I started at a young age by watching history documentaries with my...
April 21, 2020
Author: Clara Wang
As an artist, I am always interested in approaching art from new perspectives to discover how different views and experiences...
April 20, 2020
Author: Archer Klein
Picture the ground floor of Posvar Hall. Continuous renovations have turned old and dusty sitting areas into contemporary study...
April 20, 2020
Author: Christina Hansen
When exploring the hallowed halls of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, guests might expect to find themselves enraptured by...
April 16, 2020
Author: Ryan Negron
There are always two sides to any conflict in life. In my time studying History at Pitt, I’ve narrowed the focus of my studies on...
April 15, 2020
Author: Stephen Dadio
Walking into the Anthropology department of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History I was confronted with an endless array of...
March 27, 2018
Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture
CFP, Edition 8: “Yesterday’s Contemporaneity: Finding Temporality In...
July 13, 2016
The annual Digital Humanities conference is happening in Kraków, Poland this year. It is my first DH conference (thanks Alison for...
May 23, 2016
Our workshop ended on Friday the 13th with a beautiful day at the Carnegie Library of Braddock with the artist collective...
September 16, 2015
Hello all!
Contemporaneity co-editors in chief invite you to submit to the department's journal Contemporaneity. The new deadline...
April 1, 2015
Last week, I got into the story surrounding Thomas Bruce and the Parthenon Marbles. Now, let me tell you about the controversial...
March 26, 2015
With generous support from the Dean of Graduate Studies, ten HA&A graduate students (Maria Castro, Nicole Coffineau, Clarisse...
March 17, 2015
CAA has produced the pamphlet, "Code of Best Practices for Fair Use for the Visual Arts." It is clear, concise, and direct. Do read...
December 16, 2014
I've attached a short, interesting piece arguing that historians need to be more engaged with nonacademic publics. The author...
December 9, 2014
ULS has recently subscribed to the peer-reviewed journal ARTMargins, published by MIT Press. According to its website, "ARTMargins ...
October 1, 2014
For those of you who weren't at the Agency meeting on Sept 28, we decided that we would take up the challenge offered by Barbara to...
April 14, 2014
...FIVE of the grants went to projects incorporating computing. ("The digital humanities community responded to NEH’s call for...
March 10, 2014
Ensuring long term access to digital information sounds like a technical problem. It seems like digital preservation should be a...