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.
2024-2025 Department of Art History Lecture Series
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title |
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| September 26, 2024, 5pm Heller Hall, Room 1210 |
Jonathan Cortez Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"The Urgency of Spacial Scripts: Radicalized Carceral Reconfigurations in U.S. Immigration History"
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2023-2024 Department of Art History Lecture Series
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title |
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| October 19, 2023, 5pm Pillsbury Hall, Room 412 |
Adrienne Browne Associate Professor, University of Chicago |
The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership"
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| March 29, 2024, 12:15pm Heller Hall, Room 1210 |
Stephen Whiteman Courtauld Institute of Art |
"Plausible Fictions and Imperfect Models: Engaging the Past through Digital Art History" Co-sponsored with the Center for Premodern Studies |
| April 19. 2024, 4:30pm Andersen Library, Room 120 |
Yael Rice Associate Professor, Amherst College |
Catherine B. Asher Lecture in South Asian and Islamic Art History—"Tactile Histories of the Mughal Album" |
2022-2023 Department of Art History Lecture Series
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title |
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| November 17, 2022, 5:30pm 125 Willey Hall |
Zeynep Çelik Alexander Associate Professor, Columbia University |
The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Imperial Data: An Architectural History" |
2021-2022 Department of Art History Lecture Series
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title |
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October 21, 2021, 5:00pm
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Jesús Escobar
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The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Mariana's Madrid: Architecture, Ceremony, and Power" |
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April 13, 2022, 6:30pm 125 Willey Hall |
Maggie Cao
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"Transplanting the Tropics" |
2020-2021 Department of Art History Lecture Series
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title |
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October 20, 2020, 3:00pm Zoom |
Laura Kalba
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Faculty Colloquia Series—"Beautiful Money: Looking at La Semeuse in Fin-de-Siécle France" |
2019-2020 Department of Art History Lecture Series
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title |
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October 11, 2019, 3:30pm 445 Heller Hall |
Jane Blocker
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Faculty Colloquia Series—"Beacon: Epistemologies of the Art Object"
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| October 30, 2019, 5:30pm Lindahl Founders Room Northrup 2nd Floor |
Madhuri Desai Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Penn State |
The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"The Mughal Temple in Banaras and Beyond" |
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March 27, 2020, 12:00pm Zoom |
Jennifer Awes-Freeman Visiting Assistant Professor University of Minnesota |
Faculty Colloquia Series—"Altered Arks/Arks as Altars: Divinity on the Move in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages"
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2018-2019 Department of Art History Lecture Series
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title |
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| November 1, 2018, 5:00pm Lindahl Founders Room Northrup 2nd Floor |
Michael Osman Associate Professor University of California, Los Angeles |
The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Modernism's Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America" |
| April 8, 2019, 4:00pm 445 Heller Hall |
Jenni Sorkin Associate Professor University of California, Santa Barbara |
"One Thousand Hours: Artistic Labor and the Vase that Established Studio Ceramics" |
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"
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2016-2017 Department of Art History Lecture Series
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title |
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| 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 Islam Deborah Hutton South Asia Rebecca Brown |
"Liber Amicorum: A symposium honoring Professors Catherine Asher, Frederick Asher, and Gabriel Weisberg" |