Endowed Lectures in Art History


2023 Art History Endowed Lecture The Apostolic Founders of Early Christian Rome Thursday, October 19, 2023 Annewies van den Hoek Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum 6:00pm Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium Philo and the Horti in Rome Friday, October 20, 2023 Annewies van den Hoek Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East John Herrmann Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Carlos Museum Boardroom 10:00am Click here to view the flyer.	2021 Art History Endowed Lecture At the Butterfly House: Nahua Ambassadors in the Ruins of Rome, 1529 Thursday, December 2, 2021 Byron Hamann Associate Professor The Ohio State University Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum 6:00pm Click here to view the flyer	2020 Art History Endowed Lecture Renaissance Invention: The Newberry’s Nova Reperta Thursday, November 12, 2020 Lia Markey, Director, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library Suzanne Karr Schmidt, George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Newberry Library Zoom 6:00pm Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Lecture Piranesi’s Lost Book Thursday, February 20, 2020 Heather Hyde Minor Professor University of Notre Dame Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum 6:00pm Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Lecture Speaking Ruins: Piranesi and Hubert Robert Tuesday, April 7, 2020 [cancelled] John Pinto Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus Princeton University Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Lecture Degas’s Dust Wednesday, April 22, 2020 [cancelled] Michelle Foa Associate Professor Tulane University Click here to view the flyer.
2019 Art History Endowed Lecture Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of Egypt’s 13th-Century Slave-Queen Thursday, April 4, 2019 D. Fairchild Ruggles Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture and Professor in Art History, Architecture, and Medieval Studies University of Illinois Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum 6:00pm Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium Who Built the Mosque of Córdoba? On Patronage and Labor Friday, April 5, 2019 D. Fairchild Ruggles Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture and Professor in Art History, Architecture, and Medieval Studies University of Illinois Candler Library 212 10:00am Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Lecture The End of the Sixties: Kerry James Marshall’s Mementos Thursday, November 21, 2019 James Meyer Curator of Modern Art, 1945-1974 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum 6:00pm Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture Friday, November 22, 2019 James Meyer Curator of Modern Art, 1945-1974 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Convocation Hall, Room 204 10:00am Click here to view the flyer.	2018 Art History Endowed Lecture The Cut and the Cause: Gordon Matta-Clark at Day’s End Thursday, November 15, 2018 Molly S. Nesbit Professor of Art Vassar College Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum 6:00pm Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium Sustainable Aesthetics Friday, November 16, 2018 Molly S. Nesbit Professor of Art Vassar College Carlos Hall Conference Room 10:00am Click here to view the flyer. Click here to view the first reading. Click here to view the second reading.	2017 Art History Endowed Lecture Phenomenality & Materiality in Le Corbusier of Ronchamp as Inscription Thursday, March 23, 2017 K. Michael Hays Professor Harvard Graduate School of Design Click here to view the flyer.
2016 Art History Endowed Lecture The Pergamon Altar as the Palace of Zeus: From Poetical Inspiration to Architectural Representation Thursday, April 14, 2016 Andreas Scholl Director Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium Three Museums – One Collection: The Displays of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in Berlin Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Andreas Scholl Director Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Lecture, MAP IT Part II Computing with Genre in Paintings, Prints, and Purchases: Questions of Category and Measure Thursday, November 10, 2016 Matthew Lincoln Data Research Specialist Getty Research Institute Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium, MAP IT Part II Everyone Talks about Uncertainty, but No One Does Anything About It: Working with Art Historical Lacunae Friday, November 11, 2016 Matthew Lincoln Data Research Specialist Getty Research Institute Click here to view the flyer.	2015 Art History Endowed Lecture Publication Anxiety in Early Modern Rome Thursday, February 19, 2015 Evelyn Lincoln Professor Brown University Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium Reading in the Theater that was Rome Friday, February 20, 2015 Evelyn Lincoln Professor Brown University Click here to view the flyer.	2014 Art History Endowed Lecture Le Corbusier – Landscape Outsides and In Wednesday, March 19, 2014 Judi Loach Professor Cardiff University, Wales Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium Breaking the Fourth Wall? Le Corbusier’s Miracle Box and Spontaneous Theatre Thursday, March 20, 2014 Judi Loach Professor Cardiff University, Wales Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Lecture Miraculous Images and ‘Popular’ Religion Thursday, September 25, 2014 Megan Holmes Professor University of Michigan Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium Transformative Marks: Interpreting the Intentional Effacement of Italian Panel Paintings Friday, September 26, 2014 Megan Holmes Professor University of Michigan Click here to view the flyer.
2013 Art History Endowed Lecture Putting the Deceased in the Picture: Pictorial Devices as Visual Cues on Roman Sarcophagi Friday, March 1, 2013 Paul Zanker Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Click here to view the flyer.	2012 Art History Endowed Lecture The Crown of Thorns – Mockery, Royalty, Piety Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Cynthia Hahn Professor Hunter College and the Graduate Center at CUNY Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium It’s Alive! The Cross as a Performative Object in the Middle Ages Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Cynthia Hahn Professor Hunter College and the Graduate Center at CUNY Click here to view the flyer.	2011 Art History Endowed Lecture Herculaneum: Living with Catastrophe Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project Master of Sydney Sussex College in England Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Colloquium The Public Buildings of Herculaneum Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project Master of Sidney Sussex College in England Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Lecture Early Italian Painters and the Secret Life of Stones Thursday, October 27, 2011 Anne Dunlop Tulane University Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Lecture Magnetic Boroque: The Art and Science of Attraction in Seventeenth-Century Rome Thursday, November 17, 2011 Louise Rice New York University Click here to view the flyer.
2010 Art History Endowed Lecture Who Were Artists in Ancient Egypt and What Audiences Did They Address? Wednesday, March 10, 2010 John Baines Queen’s College, University of Oxford Click here to view the flyer. Harvey Stahl Memorial Lecture at Emory Architecture, Image, and Vision in 13th-Century France Monday, October 25, 2010 Michael Davis Mount Holyoke College Click here to view the flyer.	2008 New Perspectives in Art History Seminar Poetic Monsters and the Postcolonial Grotesque Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Kobena Mercer Yale University Click here to view the flyer. New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Diaspora as a Detour through Modernity Monday, November 3, 2008 Kobena Mercer Yale University Click here to view the flyer. Art History Endowed Lecture Archaic Greek Temple Decoration and the Viewer Friday, October 8, 2010 Clemente Marconi New York University Click here to view the flyer.	2007 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Cannibalism, the Non-Object, and Institutional Critique Thursday, April 5, 2007 Alexander Alberro University of Florida Click here to view the flyer. New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Gardens, Landscape Painting, and the Larger Landscape in Baroque Rome: Leaping the Fence before the Picturesque Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Mirka Beneš University of Texas, Austin Click here to view the flyer.
2006 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture After Jackson Pollock: The Paris-Osaka Alliance in the 1950s Friday, October 20, 2006 Lewis Kachur Kean University of New Jersey Click here to view the flyer. New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Water Infrastructure and Urbanism in Early Modern Rome Thursday, November 16. 2006 Katherine Rinne Independent Scholar and Hydrologist Click here to view the flyer.	2005 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Branding the Campus and Other Work Monday, January 31, 2005 Christian Philipp Müller Swiss Installation Artist Click here to view the flyer. New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Poseidon’s Nudity and the Iconography of the Parthenon’s West Pediment: New Evidence Thursday, November 17, 2005 Peter Schultz Concordia College Click here to view the flyer.	2003 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Picasso’s Choice: Art and Commitment During the Cold War Tuesday, April 15, 2003 Gertje R. Utley Independent Scholar
2000 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Thursday, March 23, 2000 Tom Sachs Artist New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Painting and Ideology Between Civil and Cold Wars: Luminism’s Landscapes of Conflict and Contradiction Monday, April 17, 2000 Eric Rosenberg Tufts University	1999 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Tuesday, March 16, 1999 Bill Burke Photographer and Book Artist	1998 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture New Perspectives on Early Colonial Peruvian Art Monday, November 2, 1998 Tom Cummins University of Chicago
1997 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture The Scarith of Scornello: An Etruscan Fraud in the Age of Galileo Saturday, November 22, 1997 Ingrid Rowland University of Chicago	1996 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Laughter, Sexuality, and Gender in Pompeian Wall Painting October 3, 1996 John R. Clarke University of Texas, Austin New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Stories in Black and Red: Mexican Pictorial Histories Thursday, November 21, 1996 Elizabeth H. Boone Tulane University	1995 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Privilege and Narrative Cinema Thursday, November 16, 1995 Yvonne Rainer Independent Filmmaker
1994 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture In the Light of Dante: Natural and Divine Light in Renaissance Painting from Fra Angelico to Michelangelo Thursday, November 17, 1994 Martin Kemp University of St. Andrews, Scotland	1992 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture The Art of Conjuring, or How the Romantic Virtuoso Learned from the Enlightened Charlatan Thursday, November 5, 1992 Barbara M. Stafford University of Chicago	1991 New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Bath Time: The Representation of the Bather in Late 19th Century France Monday, April 15, 1991 Linda Nochlin Yale University New Perspectives in Art History Lecture Architecture as Social Space: Orientation and Images Tuesday, November 5, 1991 David Summers University of Virginia