Section: September 8: On the Origins and Futures of Art History: Foundations and Foundational Biases | Senior Conference I - bmc.HART.B398.001.F26

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- Select activity Student preferences for discussion leading sessions due to Moodle by 11:59, Monday, September 7
  
  Student preferences for discussion leading sessions due to Moodle by 11:59, Monday, September 7 Forum
  
  Due: Monday, September 7, 2026, 11:59 PM
  
  Each student will lead or co-lead one session this semester as indicated on the syllabus. Please reflect on the topics available for student presentations and choose your first and second choices. You might prioritize topics that provide an opportunity to consider bodies of theory or types of methodologies that you anticipate foregrounding in your thesis. In the blog post, indicate these choices and your reasons.
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- Select activity Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk, Art History: A C...
  
  Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk, Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), 21-39.
- Select activity Shao Yiyang, “Wither Art History,” Art Bulletin 98.2 (2016): 147-50.
  
  Shao Yiyang, “Wither Art History,” Art Bulletin 98.2 (2016): 147-50. File
  
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- Select activity Alicia Walker, “‘The Art that Does Not Think’: Byzantine ‘Decorative Arts’ – History and Limits of a Concept,” in Colum Hourihane, ed., From minor to major: the minor arts in Medieval art history (Princeton, NJ, 2012), 169-93.
  
  Alicia Walker, “‘The Art that Does Not Think’: Byzantine ‘Decorative Arts’ – History and Limits of a Concept,” in Colum Hourihane, ed., From minor to major: the minor arts in Medieval art history (Princeton, NJ, 2012), 169-93. File PDF
  
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- Select activity Student preferences for presentation topics due to...
  
  Student preferences for presentation topics due to Moodle by midnight, Monday, September 7 (submit via "Assignment" section above)

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