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 for a Collective Lyric I reading with Dr. Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Pia Hargrove (LSMW) and Eleni Theodoropoulos, featured in The Hopkins Review 17.1
Inka Suspension Bridges: Engineering A Pre-Industrial Construction In collaboration with the Embassy of Peru, Washington, DC Abstract Inka culture relied on an extensive network of roads and bridges to connect the various regions in the high Andes. Though the road system has been studied in some detail, scholars have largely neglected the role of suspension […]
Please join us in welcoming David Getsy, historian and curator of art and performance at University of Virginia. Dr. Getsy will be discussing the early work of Scott Burton in a talk, "How to behave: Queer Performances and Public Feelings in the Early Work of Scott Burton." The talk will take place on Wednesday, March […]
The workshop will take place next Tuesday, April 2nd, 5-6 pm in the Department’s Seminar Room, 177 Gilman Hall. Nicole Berlin, Assistant Curator Assistant Curator of Collections, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College and Lara Yeager Crasselt, Curator and Department Head, European Painting and Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art will be talking about […]
Calligraphic Language and Aesthetics in Contemporary Chinese Art Calligraphy entered contemporary Chinese art at the time modernist art reappeared in China in the 1980s, and gradually became an important component in contemporary art. Because the Chinese written language is partially ideographic and partially pictographic, calligraphy-related works can be categorized into a few groups. The first […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 "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 […]