Please join us in celebrating the recent publications by our esteemed colleagues Joseph Monteyne and Saygin Salgirli.
Art History Joint Book Launch
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
1:00p.m.
Room 202, Frederic Lasserre Building
6333 Memorial Road
Vancouver, BC
Please note that face masks are still required for indoor gatherings at UBC.
Joseph Monteyne is Associate Professor of Early Modern art history. His third book, Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres was published by University of Toronto Press this past December. Examining a wide range of late eighteenth-century British prints, from black squares to scavenged pictures, Monteyne addresses the challenges posed by reproductive technologies to traditional concepts of subjective agency amidst the rise of the paper age. Following Dr. Monteyne’s second book, From Still Life to the Screen: Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013).
Saygin Salgirli is Assistant Professor of Islamic art history. His research focuses on the medieval Mediterranean. His first monograph, The Fluctuating Sea: Architecture and Movement in the Medieval Mediterranean was published by Routledge in late 2021. The Fluctuating Sea proposes a new perspective on architectural history, founded on an investigation of the generative tension between movement and the particular experiences of a multiplicity of users in the fragmented microecologies of the medieval Mediterranean. This past fall Saygin also published a collected volume titled Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecture: A Cartography of Boundaries in and of the Field (Bloomsbury, 2021). The volume brings together scholars with diverse methodologies-who work on a geographical span stretching from India to Spain and Nigeria, and across a temporal spectrum from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century.
We look forward to sharing with you and celebrating the accomplishments of our colleagues!