Department of the History of Art

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 […]

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 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 […]

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).