The departments of History and History of Art welcome Vincent Debiais from the L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHSS) in Paris. Dr. Debiais will speak on "Medieval Abstraction and Animated Colors."
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.
The Greek Chamber Music Project (GCMP) presents Uproot, a powerful program of Greek songs from Asia Minor. GCMP performs modern arrangements of Greek music from the region, celebrating this vibrant musical heritage and capturing the refugee experience through song. Uproot weaves histories and personal stories throughout, generating a universal dialogue about the impact of forced […]
Adedoyin Teriba, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, joins the department to lecture on "Language, Desire and Dwelling in the Lagos Colony (1910s)."
Erin Giffin, a visiting assistant professor of art history at Skidmore College, will give a talk titled "Tangible Abstractions: Holy Lengths on Textile and Paper in the Catholic Cult of Loreto" for the Department of the History of Art and the Stern Center.
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 […]