Thadeus Dowad
Thadeus Dowad is a PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley. He is currently a Paul Mellow Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). A scholar of both European and Ottoman art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Thadeus' research takes a transregional approach that redresses the historiographic separation of European and Islamic artistic traditions in order to understand their co-evolutions in the age of European empire.
His dissertation project, entitled "Border Regimes: European Art & Ottoman Modernity, 1789-1839," is an integrated history of Ottoman and European art and architecture at the turn of the nineteenth century. Set at a time when the Ottoman Empire was vying for a seat in an emergent European federation and the great empires of France and Britain were acquiring increasingly Asiatic profiles, this dissertation examines how European and Ottoman imperial art developed into systems essential to calibrating, classifying, and demarcating cultural difference and affiliation. Research for the project was completed in archives, museums, and private collections across Europe and the Middle East, including in Istanbul, Cairo, Alexandria, Beirut, Athens, Paris, London, Stockholm, Berlin, and Vienna.
In Fall 2021, he will be joining the Art History faculty at Northwestern University as an assistant professor of global 18th/19th-century art. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
Supervisors: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Anneka Lenssen
His dissertation project, entitled "Border Regimes: European Art & Ottoman Modernity, 1789-1839," is an integrated history of Ottoman and European art and architecture at the turn of the nineteenth century. Set at a time when the Ottoman Empire was vying for a seat in an emergent European federation and the great empires of France and Britain were acquiring increasingly Asiatic profiles, this dissertation examines how European and Ottoman imperial art developed into systems essential to calibrating, classifying, and demarcating cultural difference and affiliation. Research for the project was completed in archives, museums, and private collections across Europe and the Middle East, including in Istanbul, Cairo, Alexandria, Beirut, Athens, Paris, London, Stockholm, Berlin, and Vienna.
In Fall 2021, he will be joining the Art History faculty at Northwestern University as an assistant professor of global 18th/19th-century art. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
Supervisors: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Anneka Lenssen
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Difference/Distance will take place at UC Berkeley on April 15, 2016. The symposium will follow the History of Art Department’s annual Mary C. Stoddard Lecture, to be delivered on the evening of April 14. The 2016 Stoddard Lecturer is Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Professor Blier’s lecture will double as the keynote address to the symposium.
The Stoddard Lecture will be held in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall at 5:30 pm. The symposium will be held in Room 308A Doe Library beginning at 9 am the following morning.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration required.
Difference/Distance will take place at UC Berkeley on April 15, 2016. The symposium will follow the History of Art Department’s annual Mary C. Stoddard Lecture, to be delivered on the evening of April 14. The 2016 Stoddard Lecturer is Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Professor Blier’s lecture will double as the keynote address to the symposium.
The Stoddard Lecture will be held in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall at 5:30 pm. The symposium will be held in Room 308A Doe Library beginning at 9 am the following morning.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration required.