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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 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 […]
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 […]
A symposium at Johns Hopkins University The question of what fashion means—is it a form? Is it a temporal indicator? Is it a moral category?—has many answers. This complexity is the main reason why fashion studies can be so elusive, whether by material culture specialists, anthropologists, or art historians. Four art historians will reflect on […]
Asking Historical Questions of Contemporary (Indian) Art This talk uses Shilpa Gupta’s Listening Air (2019–2023) to consider how best to take a squarely art historical perspective on contemporary art. By historical, I mean one driven less by the question, what does this work of art mean? than by the question, how did this work of art come to be? […]
This study day, organized in conjunction with the BMA exhibition Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art, invites conversation and reflection on the environmental, economic, social, and political consequences of the Dutch Republic’s engagement with the water. This convening aims to address how artists, their contemporaries, and the objects on view reveal both an […]
Andrew Griebeler, Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.
Professor Tamara Sears, Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers University give a talk: "Landscapes of Life and Death: Temples, Tombs, and Tigers in the Forests of Central India."
Please join us to hear a talk presented by Abbey Stockstill, Associate Professor and Chair, Architectural History, University of Virginia School of Architecture. Dr. Stockstill is the author of Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib (Penn State Press, 2024).