Past Events

Art History Lecture

The Art of Activism

Leilah Babirye

Thursday, November 7, 2024
6:00PM
PAIS 290

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Art History Lecture

Antiquities Theft and Restitution: Legal Rules and One Lawyer’s Perspective

Kent L. Killelea
Partner, Jones Day

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
6:30PM
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Hall

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Art History Lecture

Olympic Games and Urban Transformation (1896-2024)

Stéphane Mourlane
Associate Professor of Modern History, Aix-Marseille University

Monday, October 28, 2024
6:00PM
Oxford Road Presentation Room

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Lovis Corinth Colloquium XIII

The Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture

Thursday, September 26-Saturday, September 28, 2024
Convocation Hall 208

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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Art & the Difficulty of Expressing the Truth

Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27, 2024
Convocation Hall 204 [relocated to White Hall 200]

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David Heath Colloquium in Modern + Contemporary Art

The Time is Now: an artist talk

Sharon Hayes

Tuesday, March 26, 2024
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Endowed Colloquium

Philo and the Horti in Rome

Annewies van den Hoek
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

John Herrmann
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Friday, October 20, 2023
10:00am
Carlos Museum Boardroom
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Endowed Lecture

The Apostolic Founders of Early Christian Rome

Annewies van den Hoek
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

Thursday, October 19, 2023
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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David Heath Colloquium in Modern + Contemporary Art

Facing the Death of the Subject: Joan Mitchell and Melvin Edwards

Elise Archias
Associate Professor of Art History
University of Illinois, Chicago

Friday, April 7, 2023
10:00am
Carlos Hall Conference Room
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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Damage and Unity in Melvin Edwards’ Sculpture

Elise Archias
Associate Professor of Art History
University of Illinois, Chicago

Thursday, April 6, 2023
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Graduate Colloquium

Back in Blaeu: Mapping Race in the Dutch Republic

Claudia Swan
The Inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History
Washington University

Friday, March 17, 2023
10:00am
Carlos Hall Conference Room
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Art History Lecture

A Material History of the Dutch Colonial Imaginary

Claudia Swan
The Inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History
Washington University

Thursday, March 16, 2023
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Lecture

Pisanello and the Manifold Grounds of Invention

C. Jean Campbell
Professor
Emory University

Wednesday, February 22, 2023
3:00pm
Carlos Museum Boardroom
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Art History Lecture

Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Mongols: Fourteenth-Century Italian Art and Mongol Asia

Anne Dunlop
Herald Chair of Fine Arts
University of Melbourne

Friday, February 10, 2023
4:30pm
Convocation Hall 208
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Art History Lecture

A Case Study on the Turin Satiric-Erotic Papyrus: Historical bodies, mundane resistance and alternative worlds

Reinert Skumsnes
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow

Wednesday, November 9, 2022
3:00pm
Carlos Museum Boardroom
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Egyptology in Dialogue: Historical Bodies in Relations of Comparisons and Negotiations

Organizers:
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson, Macquarie University
Rune Nyord, Emory University
Leire Olabarria, University of Birmingham
Reinert Skumsnes, University of Oslo / Emory University

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
Thursday, November 3-Friday, November 4, 2022
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

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Egyptology in Dialogue Keynote
Comparing Bodies of Knowledge: Units, Intensities and Disciplines

Matei Candea
Professor of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge

Friday, November 4, 2022
9:00 am
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Egyptology in Dialogue Keynote
“Nobody Knows What a Body Can Do:” On difference, relations and body worlds

Oliver Harris
Associate Professor of Archaeology
University of Leicester

Thursday, November 3, 2022
9:30 am
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Public Scholarship Forum

Seeing Perfection: Ancient Egyptian Images beyond Representation

Rune Nyord
Assistant Professor
Emory University

with Walter Melion, Director of the Fox Center; Todd Cronan, Art History; Petra Creamer, MESAS

Wednesday, November 2, 2022
4:00-5:30 pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Lecture

Identity, Memory, Tradition: Ancient Greek Construction Rituals

Andrew Farinholt Ward
Visiting Assistant Professor
Emory University

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
3:00pm
Carlos Museum Boardroom
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Art History Lecture

Artistic Community, Cultural Exchange, and the Ukraine War

Tanja Dückers, Anastasiya Yarovenko, and Olena Newkryta

Monday, October 24, 2022
4:00pm
Atwood 360
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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Third Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism: Space + Place

October 20-21, 2022
Convocation Hall 204
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Open Studio

Dream Life of the Indigo Children

Masud Olufani
Visual Arts Fellow
Emory University

Friday, April 29, 2022
6:00pm
Visual Arts Bldg Gallery
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Art History Lecture

Spatial Revolution: Soviet Architecture + Its Aftermath in Kharkiv, Ukraine

Christina Crawford
Associate Professor
Emory University

Wednesday, April 22, 2022
4:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Spatial Justice: Rethinking the Architecture of Social Housing

Dana Cuff
Director of cityLAB and
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
University of California, Los Angeles

Monday, April 11, 2022
6:00pm

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Lovis Corinth Colloquium XII
Motus mixti et compositi: The Portrayal of Mixed and Compound Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of Northern Europe: 1500-1700

Thursday, April 7-Saturday, April 9, 2022
Convocation Hall 208
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Art History Lecture

Race, Social Justice, and Contemporary African-American Art

Glenn Ligon
Contemporary Artist

Wednesday, February 23, 2022
4:15pm
Zoom
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Art History Endowed Lecture

At the Butterfly House: Nahua Ambassadors in the Ruins of Rome, 1529

Byron Hamann
Associate Professor

The Ohio State University

Thursday, December 2, 2021
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

Art History Honors Symposium 2021

Wednesday, December 1, 2021
4:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

Monuments and Memorials Lecture Series

The invisible enemy should not exist

Michael Rakowitz
Contemporary Artist

Thursday, November 4, 2021
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Lovis Corinth Colloquium XI
Customized Books in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700

Thursday, October 14-Saturday, October 16, 2021
Convocation Hall 208
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Monuments and Memorials Lecture Series

Excavation: Mining Memory for Restitution and Redemption

Masud Olufani
Visual Arts Fellow
Emory University

Thursday, October 7, 2021
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

Art History Lecture

Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law

Sarah Lewis
Associate Professor
Harvard University

Tuesday, April 20, 2021
4:30pm
Zoom

From The Vantage of The Victory: The Sanctuary of The Great Gods and Island of Samothrace

Thursday, April 15-Friday, April 16, 2021
Carlos Museum, Emory University, Webinar Symposium
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Digital Will Smith: “Gemini Man”, Visual Effects, & Post-Racist Ideology

Tanine Allison
Associate Professor
Emory University

Tuesday, April 13, 2021
4:45pm
Zoom

David Heath Colloquium in Modern + Contemporary Art

Theo Eshetu
Contemporary Artist

Monday, April 12, 2021
2:30pm
Zoom

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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Theo Eshetu
Contemporary Artist

Monday, April 12, 2021
12:30pm
Zoom

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Art History Lecture

Spinning Tales: Images of Women, the Athenian Textile Industry, and the “Invisibility” of Female Labor

Katherine Harrington
Visiting Assistant Professor
Clark University

Wednesday, April 6, 2021
4:00pm
Carlos Museum Boardroom
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Art History Lecture

The Use of The Humanities in Medical & Health Education

Dr. Andrew Furman
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Emory School of Medicine

Tuesday, March 23, 2021
5:00pm
Zoom
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Art History Lecture

The Object as Wish

Darby English
Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History and the College

University of Chicago

Thursday, March 18, 2021
4:15pm
Zoom

Art History Endowed Lecture

Renaissance Invention: The Newberry’s Nova Reperta

Lia Markey
Director
Center for Renaissance Studies
Newberry Library

Suzanne Karr Schmidt
George Amos Poole III Curator of
Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Newberry Library

Thursday, November 12, 2020
6:00pm
Zoom
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How Do Medical Doctors Read Images of Covid-19?

Jane Patricia Gagliardi, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University
Carmelo Gullotto, Body Imaging Radiologist / Breast MRI Specialist, Wake Radiology

Thursday, September 30, 2020
7:30pm
Zoom

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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Mapping the Discipline, Plotting the Data of the History of Art

Nancy Um
Professor of Art History, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Inclusion, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton University

Wednesday, September 23, 2020
7:30pm
Zoom
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Art History Endowed Lecture

Degas’s Dust

Michelle Foa
Associate Professor
Tulane University

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 [cancelled] 5:30pm
PAIS 290
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Art History Endowed Lecture

Speaking Ruins: Piranesi and Hubert Robert

John Pinto
Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus
Princeton University

April 7, 2020 [cancelled] 6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Lecture

‘No Other Satisfactory Reason can be Given’: The 19th-Century Discovery of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife

Rune Nyord
Assistant Professor
Emory University

Wednesday, April 8, 2020 [cancelled] 4:30pm
Callaway S420
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Art History Lecture

Behind the Camera: The Strange Fate of Moscow’s Avant-Garde Architecture

William Brumfield
Professor
Tulane University

Monday, March 2, 2020
6:00pm
PAIS 290

Memorial Service for Sidney Kasfir

Sunday, February 23, 2020
1:00pm
Cannon Chapel

 

For those who were unable to attend, you can view the memorial here.

Art History Endowed Lecture

Piranesi’s Lost Book

Heather Hyde Minor
Professor
University of Notre Dame

Thursday, February 20, 2020
6:00pm

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Emory Williams Memorial Lecture Series

The Gothic Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris

Elizabeth Pastan
Professor
Emory University

Wednesday, February 5, 2020
4:30pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Art History Now: Map and Territory, Image and Object

Emily Pugh
Principal Research Specialist
Getty Research Institute

Thursday, January 30, 2020
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library

Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Lovis Corinth Colloquium X
Ekphrastic Image-making in Early Modern Europe and the Americas

Friday, December 6-Saturday, December 7, 2019
Convocation Hall, Room 208  

Art History Endowed Colloquium

The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture

James Meyer
Curator of Modern Art, 1945-1974
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Friday, November 22, 2019
10:00am
Convocation Hall, Room 204

Art History Endowed Lecture

The End of the Sixties: Kerry James Marshall’s Mementos

James Meyer
Curator of Modern Art, 1945-1974
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.  

Thursday, November 21, 2019
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Through a Glass, Darkly

Friday, November 8, 2019
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

Art History Lecture

Making Exhibitions: Curatorial Stories

Ruth Fine                                        Stephanie Heydt
Curator                                           Curator of American Art
National Gallery of Art            High Museum

Sarah Kennel
Curator of Photography
High Museum

 

Friday, October 4, 2019
12:00pm

Convocation Hall, Room 204
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Heath Graduate Colloquium in Modern + Contemporary Art

Why Has It Been So Difficult To Study The Emotions?: Genealogical and Theoretical Issues

Ruth Leys
Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, April 19, 2019
10:00am
Tate Room, Carlos Museum

David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

What Do Mirror Neurons Have to Do with Aesthetic Judgement?

Ruth Leys
Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Thursday, April 18, 2019
6:00pm

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Lecture

Art Biennials and Literature Festivals in Africa: Possible Futures?

Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi
Curator of African Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art

in conversation with

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Assistant Professor of English
Emory University

Thursday, April 11, 2019
4:15pm
Oxford Road Building Presentation Room

Art History Endowed Colloquium

Who Built the Mosque of Córdoba? On Patronage and Labor

D. Fairchild Ruggles
Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture, and
Professor in Art History, Architecture, and Medieval Studies
University of Illinois

Friday, April 5, 2019
10:00am

Candler Library, Room 212
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Art History Endowed Lecture

Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of Egypt’s 13th-Century Slave-Queen

D. Fairchild Ruggles
Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture, and
Professor in Art History, Architecture, and Medieval Studies

University of Illinois

Thursday, April 4, 2019
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Visualizing Krakow under Nazi Occupation: Exploring Digital and Analog Methods to Analyze the Built Environment of the Holocaust

Paul Jaskot
Professor
Duke University

Thursday, March 28, 2019
5:30pm

Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Lovis Corinth Colloquium IX
Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700

Thursday, March 21-Saturday, March 23, 2019
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Mapping the Manual of Birds: A New Approach to Understanding Chinese Natural History Painting

Daniel Greenberg
Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Columbia University

Monday, February 25, 2019
5:30pm
Oxford Road Bldg. Presentation Room
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Collecting African Art in the 21st Century: The Ethics of Acquisition, Repatriation, Restitution

Amanda Hellman
Curator of African Art
Michael C. Carlos Museum


Friday, February 22, 2019
2:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Lecture

Art and Identity

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Professor
New York University

Friday, February 8, 2019
3:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Master Class

Photogrammetry and 3D Modeling for Archaeological Recording for Buildings and Objects

Phil Sapirstein
Assistant Professor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Friday, February 1, 2019
10:00am
Tate Room, Carlos Museum
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Art History Lecture

Digital Autopsy and the Temple of Hera at Olympia: Rethinking the origins of Greek monumental architecture

Phil Sapirstein
Assistant Professor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Wednesday, January 30, 2019
6:00pm
Oxford Road Building Presentation Room
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Graduate Colloquium

Kinetic Landscapes of Ancient Mediterranean Pilgrimage

Troels Myrup Kristensen
Associate Professor
Aarhus University

Wednesday, January 23, 2019
5:00pm
Carlos Hall Conference Room

Art History Endowed Colloquium

Sustainable Aesthetics

Molly S. Nesbit
Professor of Art
Vassar College

Friday, November 16, 2018
10:00am
Carlos Hall Conference Room

Art History Endowed Lecture

The Cut and the Cause: Gordon Matta-Clark at Day’s End

Molly S. Nesbit
Professor of Art
Vassar College

Thursday, November 15, 2018
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Nodes and Edges: Architecture in Baroque Rome under Pope Innocent X

Stephanie Leone
Professor
Boston College

Thursday, October 18, 2018
6:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Data by Design: A Cultural History of Data Visualization, 1786-1900

Lauren Klein
Associate Professor
Georgia Tech

Monday, September 24, 2018
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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Art History Lecture

Gawkers: Street Theater in Fin-de-siècle French Art

Bridget Alsdorf
Associate Professor
Princeton University

Tuesday, April 24, 2018
7:15pm
Carlos Hall, Room 212

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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

METAscripta: Continuing a Legacy of Shared Cultural Heritage

Debra Taylor Cashion
Saint Louis University

Monday, April 16, 2018
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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David Heath Colloquium in Modern + Contemporary Art

Reflections on Okwui Enwezor’s “Redrawing the Boundaries” Editorial, 25 Years Later

Chika Okeke-Agulu
Professor of Art History

Princeton University

Friday, April 13, 2018
10:00am
Carlos Hall Conference Room
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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

El Anatsui’s Metamorphic Objects

Chika Okeke-Agulu
Professor of Art History

Princeton University

Thursday, April 12, 2018
6:30pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Lovis Corinth Colloquium VIII
Quid est sacramentum?: On the Visual Representation of Mystery and Secrecy in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700

Thursday, March 29-Saturday, March 31, 2018
March 29th: Harland Cinema
March 30-31st: Pitts Theology Library CST 360
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Art History Lecture

Seeing African Arts

Yaëlle Biro
Associate Curator of the Arts of Africa
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi
Assistant Professor
Emory University

Tuesday, March 27, 2018
7:15pm
PAIS 280
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Art History Seminar

Old Company: The Society of Jesus in Early Modern Europe and Beyond

Liam Matthew Brockey
Professor of History

Michigan State University

Friday, March 9, 2018
9:00am
Modern Languages Bldg. 201
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Art History Lecture

Panoramas, Pedestals, and Pulpits: Images in the Sermons of António Vieira

Liam Matthew Brockey
Professor of History

Michigan State University

Thursday, March 8, 2018
4:00pm
Modern Languages Bldg. 201
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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Design for Humanistic Inquiry

Nicole Coleman
Digital Research Architect
Stanford University

Thursday, February 1, 2018
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Lovis Corinth Colloquium VII
Quid est sacramentum?: On the Visual Representation of Mystery and Secrecy in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700

Thursday, November 30-Saturday, December 2, 2017
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Digital Development: Mapping Kenya’s “Silicon Savannah”

Lisa Poggiali
Postdoctoral Fellow
Price Center for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

Monday, November 13, 2017
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Mapping Paintings, Or How to Breathe Life into Provenance

Jodi Cranston
Professor
Boston University

Wednesday, September 20, 2017
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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David Heath Colloquium in Modern + Contemporary Art

Plays Well with Others

Daniel D’Oca
Principal + Co-Founder, Interboro
Associate Professor in Practice
Harvard Graduate School of Design

Friday, April 14, 2017
9:00am
Candler Library 212

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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Plays Well with Others

Daniel D’Oca
Principal + Co-Founder, Interboro
Associate Professor in Practice
Harvard Graduate School of Design

Thursday, April 13, 2017
6:30pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Lovis Corinth Distinguished Lecture

All Motion Discovers Us: Theaters of Moral Discernment in the Late Sixteenth- and Early-Seventeenth Century Low Countries

Bart Ramakers
Professor of Historical Dutch Literature
University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Wednesday, March 22, 2017
6:00pm
PAIS 290
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Lovis Corinth Colloquium



Second Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism:
Elective Affinities/Elective Antipathies: German Art on Its Histories

Friday, March 17-Saturday, March 18, 2017
March 17: Math/Science Building E300, Planetarium
March 18: Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Endowed Lecture

Phenomenality & Materiality in Le Corbusier of Ronchamp as Inscription

K. Michael Hayes
Eliot Noyes Professor of Architecture Theory
Harvard Graduate School of Design

Thursday, February 23, 2017
6:00pm

PAIS 290
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Art History Endowed Colloquium, MAP IT Part II

Everyone Talks about Uncertainty, but No One Does Anything About It: Working with Art Historical Lacunae

Matthew Lincoln
Data Research Specialist
Getty Research Institute

Friday, November 12, 2016
10:00am

Woodruff Library 312
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Art History Endowed Lecture, MAP IT Part II

Computing with Genre in Paintings, Prints, and Purchases: Questions of Category and Measure

Matthew Lincoln
Data Research Specialist
Getty Research Institute

Thursday, November 11, 2016
6:00pm

Oxford Road Building Presentation Room
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Art History Endowed Colloquium

Three Museums — One Collection: The New Displays of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in Berlin

Andreas Scholl
Director
Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen zur Berlin

Friday, April 15, 2016
10:00am

Carlos Hall Conference Room
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Art History Endowed Lecture

The Pergamon Altar as the Palace of Zeus: From Poetical Inspiration to Architectural Representation

Andreas Scholl
Director
Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen zur Berlin

Thursday, April 14, 2016
6:00pm

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

A Modern Old Master? Using Historical GIS to Chart El Greco’s Influence on the French Avant-Garde

Ellen Prokop
Associate Photoarchivist
Frick Art Reference Library

Monday, April 11, 2016
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library


MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Mapping the Commercial Gallery System in Nineteenth-Century London

Pamela Fletcher
Professor of Art History
Bowdoin College

Monday, March 28, 2016
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library



David Heath Colloquium in Modern + Contemporary Art

Double Negative, 14 October-17 October 2015

Amie Siegel
Photographer, Video Arts, and Filmmaker

Friday, March 18, 2016
10:00am
Carlos Hall Conference Room
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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Provenance

Amie Siegel
Photographer, Video Arts, and Filmmaker

Thursday, March 17, 2016
6:00pm
White Hall 205
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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities

S. Wright Kennedy
Doctoral Candidate
Rice University

Thursday, March 1, 2016
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library


MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes

Niall Atkinson
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
University of Chicago

Monday, February 15, 2016
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library


MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon

Nicholas Bauch
Geographer-in-Residence
Stanford University

Monday, February 1, 2016
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas

Tracing The Arctic Regions: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Greenland

George Philip LeBourdais
Doctoral Candidate
Stanford University

Monday, January 25, 2016
5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Lovis Corinth Colloquium VI
Ut pictora amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1400-1700

Thursday, October 29-Saturday, October 31, 2015
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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David Heath Colloquium in Modern + Contemporary Art

Absolute Complicity: 77 Days as Ambassador to Thomas Hirschorn’s Gramsci Monument

Yasmil Raymond
Curator
Dia Art Foundation

Friday, April 10, 2015
10:00am
Carlos Hall Conference Room
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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Double-Consciousness: The Discourse of Displacement in Contemporary Art

Yasmil Raymond
Curator
Dia Art Foundation

Thursday, April 9, 2015
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Endowed Colloquium

Reading in the Theater that was Rome

Evelyn Lincoln
Professor, History of Art & Architecture and Italian Studies
Brown University

Friday, February 20, 2015
10:00am

Carlos Hall Conference Room
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Art History Endowed Colloquium

Publication Anxiety in Early Modern Rome

Evelyn Lincoln
Professor, History of Art & Architecture and Italian Studies
Brown University

Thursday, February 19, 2015
6:00pm

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Endowed Colloquium

Transformative Marks: Interpreting the Intentional Effacement of Italian Panel Paintings

Megan Holmes
Professor of Italian Renaissance Art History
University of Michigan

Friday, September 26, 2014
10:00am

Carlos Hall Conference Room
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Art History Endowed Lecture

Miraculous Images and “Popular” Religion

Megan Holmes
Professor of Italian Renaissance Art History
University of Michigan

Thursday, September 25, 2014
7:00pm

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Endowed Colloquium

Breaking the Fourth Wall? Le Corbusier’s Miracle Box and Spontaneous Theatre

Judi Loach
Professor, School of History, Archaeology and Religion
Cardiff University, Wales

Thursday, March 20, 2014
9:30AM

Carlos Hall Conference Room
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Art History Endowed Lecture

Le Corbusier — Landscape Outside and In

Judi Loach
Professor, School of History, Archaeology and Religion
Cardiff University, Wales

Wednesday, March 19, 2014
6:00pm

PAIS 290
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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

El Anatsui’s Trajectory: The Art World Star from Nsukka

Susan Vogel
Director
Museum of African Art, New York

Wednesday, February 5, 2014
6:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Lovis Corinth Distinguished Lecture

Geertgen tot Sint Jans and the Gift of Painting

Henry Luttikhuizen
Professor of Art and Art History
Calvin College

Tuesday, October 1, 2013
5:00pm
White Hall 200
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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Industrial Revolution: A Short History of Fabrication and the Object

Michelle Kuo
Editor
Art Forum

Thursday, April 18, 2013
5:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

First Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism

Friday, March 8-Saturday, March 9, 2013
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Endowed Lecture

Putting the Deceased in the Picture: Pictorial Devices as Visual Cues on Roman Sarcophagi

Paul Zanker
Professor of Ancient Art History
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Friday, March 1, 2013
4:00pm

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Endowed Colloquium

It’s Alive! The Cross as a Performative Object in the Middle Ages

Cynthia Hahn
Professor of Art History
Hunter College and Graduate Center at CUNY

Wednesday, November 7, 2012
1:00pm

White Hall 200
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Art History Endowed Lecture

The Crown of Thorns—Mockery, Royalty, Piety

Cynthia Hahn
Professor of Art History
Hunter College and Graduate Center at CUNY

Tuesday, November 6, 2012
5:30pm

Oxford Road Building Presentation Room
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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Lovis Corinth Colloquium V
Ab historia proprie figurativa: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400-1700

Thursday, February 16-Saturday, February 18, 2012
February 16: Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
February 17: Candler School of Theology 252
February 18: Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Endowed Lecture

Magnetic Baroque: The Art and Science of Attraction in Seventeenth-Century Rome

Louise Rice
Associate Professor of Art History
New York University

Thursday, November 17, 2011
6:00pm

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Endowed Lecture

Early Italian Painters and the Secret Life of Stones

Anne Dunlop
Associate Professor, Art History
Tulane University

Thursday, October 27, 2011
5:30pm

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Endowed Colloquium

The Public Buildings of Herculaneum

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project
and master of Sydney Sussex College in England

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
10:00am

White Hall 200
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Art History Endowed Lecture

Herculaneum: Living with Catastrophe

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project
and master of Sydney Sussex College in England

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
6:15pm

Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Douglas Gordon’s Antitheatricality

Michael Fried
Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, February 11, 2011
7:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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David Heath Colloquium in Modern + Contemporary Art

Douglas Gordon’s Antitheatricality

Michael Fried
Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, February 11, 2011
10:00am
White Hall 200
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Harvey Stahl Memorial Lecture at Emory

Architecture, Image, and Vision in 13th-Century France

Michael Davis
Professor of Art History
Mount Holyoke College

Monday, October 25, 2010
5:00pm
Oxford Road Building Presentation Room

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Art History Endowed Lecture

Who Were Artists in Ancient Egypt and What Audiences Did They Address?

John Baines
Professor of Egyptology and Fellow
Queen’s College, University of Oxford

Thursday, March 4, 2010
7:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Lovis Corinth Colloquium III
The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe

Thursday, October 8-Saturday, October 10, 2009
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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Periodizing Contemporary Art

Alexander Alberro
Visiting Associate Professor and
Visiting Virginia Bloedel Wright ’51 Chair
Barnard College, Columbia University

Thursday, March 26, 2009
5:30pm
White Hall 207
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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Eve Hesse: sub-objects and studiowork

Briony Fer
Professor of History of Art
University College London

Thursday, February 19, 2009
5:30pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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New Perspectives in Art History Seminar

Poetic Monsters and the Postcolonial Grotesque

Kobena Mercer
Professor
Yale University

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
4:00pm
John Major Seminar Room, Bowden Hall

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Diaspora as a Detour through Modernity

Kobena Mercer
Professor
Yale University

Monday, November 3, 2008
5:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

Art History Endowed Lecture

Archaic Greek Temple Decoration and the Viewer

Clemente Marconi
James R. McCredie Professor in the
History of Greek Art and Archaeology
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
7:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

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David Heath Lecture in Modern + Contemporary Art

Kant and the Work of Art

Arthur C. Danto
Johnsonian Professor Emeritus
Columbia University

Thursday, February April 10, 2008
5:30pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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Art History Lecture

The Difficult Task of Erasing Oneself: Non-composition in Twentieth-Century Art

Yve-Alain Bois
Professor
Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University

Thursday, March 27, 2008
5:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

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Lovis Corinth Distinguished Lecture

Seducing with Stone: Renaissance Gothic Ornament

Ethan Matt Kavaler
University of Toronto

Thursday, November 15, 2007
5:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum
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New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Gardens, Landscape Painting, and the Larger Landscape in Baroque Rome: Leaping the Fence before the Picturesque

Mirka Beneš
Associate Professor of the History of Landscape Architecture
School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
5:30pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

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Lovis Corinth Distinguished Lecture

Velásquez is in the Details

Svetlana Alpers
Professor Emerita
University of California, Berkley

Thursday, April 12, 2007
5:00pm
White Hall 205
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New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Cannibalism, the Non-Object, and Institutional Critique

Alexander Alberro
Associate Professor
University of Florida

Thursday, April 5, 2007
5:00pm
White Hall 103

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New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Water Infrastructure and Urbanism in Early Modern Rome

Katherine Rinne
Independent Scholar and Hydrologist

Thursday, November 16, 2006
5:30pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

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New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

After Jackson Pollock: The Paris-Osaka Alliance in the 1950s

Lewis Kachur
Associate Professor of Art History
Kean University of New Jersey

Thursday, October 20, 2006
5:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

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Lovis Corinth Colloquium

Lovis Corinth Colloquium II
Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500

Thursday, October 12-Saturday, October 14, 2006
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New Perspectives in Art History Colloquium

Archaeology and Its Double: The Case of Leochares’ Argead Portraits in the Philippeion at Olympia

Peter Schultz
Professor
Concordia College

Friday, November 18, 2005
10:00am
Carlos Hall Conference Room

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Poseidon’s Nudity and the Iconography of the Parthenon’s West Pediment: New Evidence

Peter Schultz
Professor
Concordia College

Thursday, November 17, 2005
5:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

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Lovis Corinth Distinguished Lecture

The Emblematic Conversion of the Biblical Image in the Seventeenth Century

Ralph Dekoninck
Professor of Art History
Catholic University of Louvain

Monday, October 24, 2005
5:00pm
White Hall 207
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Lovis Corinth Distinguished Lecture

The Figure in Early Modern Europe: Device and Concept Between Signification and Representation

Agnes Guiderdoni-Bruslé
Teaching Fellow
Catholic University of Leuven

Monday, October 24, 2005
5:00pm
White Hall 207
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New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Branding the Campus and Other Work

Christian Philipp Müller
Swiss Installation Artist

Monday, January 31, 2005
5:00pm
Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

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New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Picasso’s Choice: Art and Commitment During the Cold War

Gertje R. Utley
Independent Scholar

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Painting and Ideology Between Civil and Cold Wars: Luminism’s Landscapes of Conflict and Contradiction

Eric Rosenberg
Tufts University

Monday, April 17, 2000

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Tom Sachs
Artist

Thursday, March 23, 2000


New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Bill Burke
Photographer and Book Artist

Tuesday, March 16, 1999

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

New Perspectives on Early Colonial Peruvian Art

Tom Cummins
University of Chicago

Monday, November 2, 1998

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

The Scarith of Scornello: An Etruscan Fraud in the Age of Galileo

Ingrid Rowland
University of Chicago

Saturday, November 22, 1997

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Stories in Black and Red: Mexican Pictorial Histories

Elizabeth H. Boone
Tulane University

Thursday, November 21, 1996

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Laughter, Sexuality, and Gender in Pompeian Wall Painting

John R. Clarke
University of Texas, Austin

Thursday, October 3, 1996

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Privilege and Narrative Cinema

Yvonne Rainer
Independent Filmmaker

Thursday, November 16, 1995

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

In the Light of Dante: Natural and Divine Light in Renaissance Painting from Fra Angelico to Michelangelo

Martin Kemp
University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Thursday, November 17, 1994

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

The Art of Conjuring, or How the Romantic Virtuoso Learned from the Enlightened Charlatan

Barbara M. Stafford
University of Chicago

Thursday, November 5, 1992

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Architecture as Social Space: Orientation and Images

David Summers
University of Virginia

Tuesday, November 5, 1991

New Perspectives in Art History Lecture

Bath Time: The Representation of the Bather in Late 19th-Century France

Linda Nochlin
Yale University

Monday, April 15, 1991