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New Publication by Trevor Stark, "Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé"

June 26, 2020

HAA alum Trevor Stark (PhD 2016) has recently published his first book "Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé" (MIT Press, 2020). Stark is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Calgary and the 2020-21 Naomi Lacey Fellow at the Calgary Institute of the Humanities.

At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark offers a provocative history of this “linguistic turn...

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book cover for Kevin Lotery, "The Long Front of Culture"

Kevin Lotery named Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Boston College

June 24, 2020

Congratulations to HAA alumn Kevin Lotery, who will be taking up the position of Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in Europe & the Americas in the Art, Art History, and Film Department at Boston College. Kevin also recently published his first book "The Long Front of Culture: The Independent Group and Exhibition Design."

Synopsis: "In 1950s London, a cadre of young artists, theorists, and popular culture aficionados known as the Independent Group (IG) came together for a series of pressing meetings. Their humble...

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Black Lives Matter Statement from the Department of History of Art and Architecture (June 2020)

June 18, 2020

A letter by David J. Roxburgh, Chair, on behalf of the Faculty and Staff of HAA:

Dear Members of the HAA Community,

We, the Faculty and Staff of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture (HAA), affirm this truth: Black Lives Matter.

The past several weeks have been painful beyond measure, and it is difficult to put into words the sense of outrage and sadness we feel from the acts of intolerable and violent racism culminating with the recent police murders of...

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Jabber Softphone - receive your office calls from home

June 8, 2020

Jabber Softphone:

  • Replaces desk set with a softphone application on your mobile or desktop device of your choice
  • Place & receive calls on your published Harvard phone line on your mobile device or desktop/laptop:
    • While in the office, at home, traveling or during office relocations 
    • While working in flex workspace
  • Allows calls to be placed and received on the Harvard network, no cost to the user’s personal devices and home services (Long distance & International calls...
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[6/8/2020] - Email Extension for Graduating Students

June 8, 2020

In recognition of the disruption caused by the COVID-19 crisis, HUIT is extending email accounts for College and GSAS students who are graduating this May from 230 to 365 days. This extension will apply retroactively to earlier graduates in this academic year, as well.