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.
2021-2022 Department of Art History Lecture Series
Date | Name of Lecturer | Title |
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October 21, 2021, 5:00pm 125 Willey Hall, Zoom |
Jesús Escobar
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The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Mariana's Madrid: Architecture, Ceremony, and Power" |
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 |
Madhuri Desai |
The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"The Mughal Temple in Banaras and Beyond" |
March 27, 2020, 12:00pm Zoom |
Jennifer Awes-Freeman |
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 |
Michael Osman |
The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Modernism's Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America" |
April 8, 2019, 4:00pm |
Jenni Sorkin |
"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 |
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October 24, 2017, 5:30pm |
Christina Cogdell |
The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Towards a Living Architecture? Complexity and Biology in Generative Architecture" |
November 30, 2017, 4:00pm |
Jennifer Awes Freeman |
"Breastfeeding Cain: Visualizing Eve's Role in the Fall" |
April 6, 2018, 4:00pm |
Peng Peng, Visiting Assistant Professor |
Art History Faculty Symposium |
April 12, 2018 |
Annika K. Johnson |
"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 |
Louis P. Nelson |
The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Architectures of West African Enslavement" |
October 12, 2016, 7:30pm |
Tom Rassieur |
"Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation" |
November 10, 2016, 2:30pm |
Ananya Chatterjee |
"Say What You See: Visual Culture Across Disciplines" |
December 1, 2016, 2:30pm |
Margaret Cool Root |
"The Visual Culture of the Persianate World" |
April 8, 2017, 10:30am |
19th Century Colleen Denney Islam Deborah Hutton South Asia Rebecca Brown |
"Liber Amicorum: A symposium honoring Professors Catherine Asher, Frederick Asher, and Gabriel Weisberg" |