Annual Lecture Series

From internationally-recognized senior scholars to emerging art historians who are shaping the future of the discipline, our annual lecture series features a compelling range of voices. Speakers present work across historical periods using diverse methodologies, which addresses a variety of themes and research questions.

2017-2018 Department of Art History Lecture Series

Date	Name of Lecturer	Title
October 24, 2017, 5:30pm Lindahl Founders Room Northrup 2nd Floor	Christina Cogdell Associate Professor of Design and Chair of Design Department University of California, Davis	The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Towards a Living Architecture? Complexity and Biology in Generative Architecture"
November 30, 2017, 4:00pm 710 Social Sciences	Jennifer Awes Freeman Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Theology University of St. Thomas	"Breastfeeding Cain: Visualizing Eve's Role in the Fall"
April 6, 2018, 4:00pm 445 Heller Hall	Peng Peng, Visiting Assistant Professor Emily Capper, Visiting Assistant Professor Jennifer Awes-Freeman, Visiting Assistant Professor Jennifer Marshall, Associate Professor, and Colleen Stockmann, Graduate Student	-Art History Faculty Symposium- "The Lost Wax Casting in Bronze Age China: Art and Technology" "Film As Performance Score" "The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power" "William Howard's Desks"
April 12, 2018 445 Heller Hall	Annika K. Johnson PhD Candidate, History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburg	"Pipestone at the Confluence of Cultures in the Nineteenth Century"

Date

Name of Lecturer

Title

October 24, 2017, 5:30pm

Lindahl Founders Room

Northrup 2nd Floor

Christina Cogdell
Associate Professor of Design and Chair of Design Department
University of California, Davis

The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Towards a Living Architecture? Complexity and Biology in Generative Architecture"

November 30, 2017, 4:00pm

710 Social Sciences

Jennifer Awes Freeman
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
University of St. Thomas

"Breastfeeding Cain: Visualizing Eve's Role in the Fall"

April 6, 2018, 4:00pm

445 Heller Hall

Peng Peng, Visiting Assistant Professor

Emily Capper, Visiting Assistant Professor

Jennifer Awes-Freeman, Visiting Assistant Professor

Jennifer Marshall, Associate Professor, and Colleen Stockmann, Graduate Student

-Art History Faculty Symposium-

"The Lost Wax Casting in Bronze Age China: Art and Technology"

"Film As Performance Score"

"The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power"

"William Howard's Desks"

April 12, 2018

445 Heller Hall

Annika K. Johnson
PhD Candidate, History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburg

"Pipestone at the Confluence of Cultures in the Nineteenth Century"

2016-2017 Department of Art History Lecture Series

Date	Name of Lecturer	Title
October 4, 2016, 5:00pm 1210 Heller Hall	Louis P. Nelson Professor of Architectural History and Associate Dean University of Virginia's School of Architecture	The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Architectures of West African Enslavement"
October 12, 2016, 7:30pm 1210 Heller Hall	Tom Rassieur Curator of Prints and Drawings Minneapolis Institute of Art	"Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation"
November 10, 2016, 2:30pm 335 Blegen Hall	Ananya Chatterjee University of Minnesota Gabriela Currie University of Minnesota Daniela Sandler University of Minnesota	"Say What You See: Visual Culture Across Disciplines"
December 1, 2016, 2:30pm 445 Heller Hall	Margaret Cool Root University of Michigan Yael Rice Amherst College Emma Flatt University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	"The Visual Culture of the Persianate World"
April 8, 2017, 10:30am McNamara Alumni Center	-19th Century- Colleen Denney University of Wyoming Annika Johnson University of Pittsburg Gabriel Weisberg University of Minnesota -Islam- Deborah Hutton The College of New Jersey Molly Aitken City University of New York Catherine Asher University of Minnesota -South Asia- Rebecca Brown Johns Hopkins University Frederick Asher University of Minnesota	"Liber Amicorum: A symposium honoring Professors Catherine Asher, Frederick Asher, and Gabriel Weisberg"

Date

Name of Lecturer

Title

October 4, 2016, 5:00pm

1210 Heller Hall

Louis P. Nelson
Professor of Architectural History and Associate Dean
University of Virginia's School of Architecture

The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Architectures of West African Enslavement"

October 12, 2016, 7:30pm

1210 Heller Hall

Tom Rassieur
Curator of Prints and Drawings
Minneapolis Institute of Art

"Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation"

November 10, 2016, 2:30pm

335 Blegen Hall

Ananya Chatterjee
University of Minnesota

Gabriela Currie
University of Minnesota

Daniela Sandler
University of Minnesota

"Say What You See: Visual Culture Across Disciplines"

December 1, 2016, 2:30pm

445 Heller Hall

Margaret Cool Root
University of Michigan

Yael Rice
Amherst College

Emma Flatt
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"The Visual Culture of the Persianate World"

April 8, 2017, 10:30am

McNamara Alumni Center

-19th Century-

Colleen Denney
University of Wyoming

Annika Johnson
University of Pittsburg

Gabriel Weisberg
University of Minnesota

-Islam-

Deborah Hutton
The College of New Jersey

Molly Aitken
City University of New York

Catherine Asher
University of Minnesota

-South Asia-

Rebecca Brown
Johns Hopkins University

Frederick Asher
University of Minnesota

"Liber Amicorum: A symposium honoring Professors Catherine Asher, Frederick Asher, and Gabriel Weisberg"

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