The History of Art Department will host Prof. Christopher P. Heuer, Professor of Art and Architecture, University of Rochester, who will present the lecture Antiquity Without Humans.
The History of Art Department will host Mechtild Widrich, Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dr. Widrich will present the lecture Monumental Cares: Commemoration and Activism in Contemporary Art. This event is co-sponsored by The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.
Adedoyin Teriba, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, joins the department to lecture on "Language, Desire and Dwelling in the Lagos Colony (1910s)."
The History of Art Department is excited to host JHU Professor and Chair of History of Art, Marian Feldman’s work-in-progress, "Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ziggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Empire during the Ur III Period (c. 2100-2000 BCE)."
Please join us in welcoming Edhem Eldem, Visiting Professor, Columbia University. Dr. Eldem will be speaking on "How local can you go? Revisiting archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman lands in the 19th century." This program is co-sponsored by the Program in Islamic Studies and the Department of Classics.
Edhem Eldem, Visiting Professor, Columbia University will discuss his book, Eastern Perceptions of the Alhambra in the 19th Century at a brown bag workshop.
Please join us on November 19 at 6 pm EST in welcoming Anthony Joshua Meyer, Austin-Stokes Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins. Dr. Meyer will be speaking on "On Arrangement, or The Making of Relationships in Nahua Religion." Image: The Array of Napateuctli. Nahua maker(s), drafts for the Historia general, […]
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).
Claire Wintle, University of Brighton, Centre for Design History will speak on Shelving the Empire: Anxiety, Control, and Performative Change in Postwar Museum Storage. Talk will be in person, with reception to follow, and on-line, as part of AAP Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Management’s Curated Conversations. For those joining us on-line please register here: […]
Pietro Montani's narrative and ideas on the "classical" dimension of Ottoman architecture In the framework of nineteenth-century exchanges between Europe and the Ottoman world, the enigmatic Pietro Montani (1828-1887) occupied a unique position. Born in Trieste to parents from Mergozzo (Piedmont), he lived since 1832 with his family in Galata, the Genoese, "Levantine" and cosmopolitan […]