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

October 21, 2021, 5:00pm

125 Willey Hall, Zoom

Jesús Escobar
Professor Northwestern University

The Donald R. Torbert Lecture in Architectural History—"Mariana's Madrid: Architecture, Ceremony, and Power"

2020-2021 Department of Art History Lecture Series

Date

Name of Lecturer

Title

October 20, 2020, 3:00pm

Zoom

Laura Kalba
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota

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

October 11, 2019, 3:30pm

445 Heller Hall

Jane Blocker
Professor
University of Minnesota

Faculty Colloquia Series—"Beacon: Epistemologies of the Art Object"

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"

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"

2018-2019 Department of Art History Lecture Series

Date	Name of Lecturer	Title
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"

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"