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.