News Briefs

In fall 2018 Professor Lisa Passaglia Bauman was the academic director for the Oxford Semester Abroad Program. Teaching a course titled Museums, Power, and Modernity: British Museums and the Visual Experience, Bauman explored the museum experience with her students through a diverse range of institutions, from national galleries to contemporary exhibition spaces to a UNESCO World Heritage site. Toggling between seminar discussions in the history city of Oxford, England, and museum visits in the cities of London, Oxford, and Bath, this course exemplified the type of active learning that is a central component of the study-abroad experience.

The exhibit Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia, created by Professor Robert DeCaroli and featured on the front page of last year's newsletter, is still on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The exhibit will shortly be getting a revision and update and will remain on view until November 2020.

At the International Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Professor Laura McCloskey received the Barry Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Irish Medieval Studies from the American Society for Irish Studies. The article was published in volume 11 of the journal Eolas.