Please join us at the first 2025 event of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. This event will feature Jennifer Stager, Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Art, and Leila Easa, Professor in the English department […]
Please join us for a reading & book talk by Sasha-Mae Eccleston on Epic Events: Classics and the Politics of Time in the United States since 9/11 (Yale UP, Dec. 2024), in conversation with Nandini Pandey. This event is organized by History of Art professor Jennifer Stager and Dora Malech, JHU.
The Johns Hopkins History of Art Department and The Archaeological Institute of America Baltimore Society welcome graduate and undergraduate students for a unique opportunity to engage with distinguished museum professionals, hear about their work and professional development, and ask questions about museum-oriented careers. Featuring Guest Speakers: Daniel H. Weiss; Homewood Professor of the Humanities at […]
We are pleased to welcome Lamia Balafrej, Associate Professor of Arts of the Islamic World at UCLA, who will deliver a talk titled "The Feminized Robot as Palimpsest: On Jawari's Forgotten Mediation." Image: Automated enslaved woman (jāriya), folio from a copy of al-Jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal of Ibn al-Razzāz al-Jazarī, probably Āmid, 1206. Istanbul: Topkapı Palace Library (Ms. Ahmet III 3472, fol. 113v).
Nassos Papalexandrou, Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, will present the talk: Light for gods, light of gods: the ecospatial dimensions of divine radiance in the Ancient Mediterranean. Image: Interior of Idaean Cave on Crete, visit June 21, 2023, ca noon.
Claire Wintle, University of Brighton, Centre for Design History will speak on "Anxiety, Control, and Performative Change in Postwar Museum Storage." Joe Mabel, Sculptures in "visible storage," Maryhill Museum of Art, Maryhill, Washington, U.S., Creative Commons License Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Image description: White marble and plaster busts sit on clean white shelves under a fluorescent […]
Professor Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin, from the Museum of Northern Arizona and Northern Arizona University, will deliver the 2025 Distinguished Lecture in the Art of the Ancient Americas. Her talk is titled, "Artifacts and Ancestors: exploring archaeological collections with Hopi and Pueblo artists". Abstract: What happens when artists and archaeologists meet up on ancient sites or […]