Do we need Digital Visual Studies?

Speakers:

• Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Université de Genève

• Leora Auslander, University of Chicago

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel is an art historian, Full Professor at Geneva University in Switzerland (UNIGE), and chair of Digital Humanities. Since 2009, she has directed Artl@s (https://artlas.huma-num.fr), an international research platform dedicated to the study of artistic globalization. In this context, she coordinates the SFNS Visual Contagions project at UNIGE (https://visualcontagions.unige.ch, 2021-24). Joyeux-Prunel’s research focuses on the social and global history of art in the contemporary period, with an emphasis on globalization through images. She employs digital tools and techniques to investigate these themes, as well as more traditional art historical methods. She has authored several articles and books on the subject, including Les avant-gardes artistiques – une histoire transnationale 1848-1918 (Gallimard, Folio histoire in paperback, 2016); Les avant-gardes artistiques – une histoire transnationale 1918-1945 (Gallimard Folio histoire in paperback, 2017); and Naissance de l'art contemporain (1945-1970) – Une histoire mondiale (CNRS Editions, 2021).

Leora Auslander

Leora Auslander is the Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization and Professor of Modern European Social History at the University of Chicago where she was the founding director of the Center for Gender Studies and is a member of the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. Her research lies at the intersection of the micro and the macro: citizenship law and domestic interiors; clothing and colonialism; European regulation and everyday religious practice. At the Katz Center, Auslander will work on metaphorical eruvs in Germany and France between the years 1880 and 1970.

Auslander received her PhD from Brown University and has taught at the University of Paris, Postdam University, the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, among others.