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, […]
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 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.
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 […]
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)."
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 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 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.
Vincent Debiais, Visiting Scholar, History Department will join Professor Mitchell Merbeck and speak on the topic of "Texts, Images and the Making of the Eucharist: Dealing with Christ's Two Bodies." Dr. Debiais is Senior Researcher at the EHESS in Paris, and winner of the 2022 L. Kessler Prize for Medieval Art History – University Masaryk, […]
Robert Slifkin, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, will present a lecture on the art of Philip Guston, "An Ethnology of Modernism: Philip Guston Now and Then," discussing its engagement with the history of racism in the United States, and the current exhibition of Philip Guston's work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.