Distinguished Speaker Series
2023 – 2024
September 22: Professor Christiane Gruber, Professor and Curator of Islamic Art at University of Michigan.
2021 – 2022
2020 – 2021
February 19: Susanna Berger, Associate Professor of Art History and Philosophy at the University of Southern California, Anamorphic Revelations and Justifiable Obscurity
March 26: Mrinalini Rajagopalan, Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, Dancing and Diplomacy: The Arts of Hospitality at the Court of Begum Samru (1805-1836)
April 30: Ana María Reyes, Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University, Better Homes and Subjects: the Politics of Taste in Beatriz González’s furniture assemblages
2019 – 2020
December 4: Mark Rosen, Associate Professor in the Arts And Humanities Department at the University of Texas at Dallas, The Balloonist and the Mapmaker
February 19: Christina Maranci, Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts University, Do You See It Too? Art History, Technology, and Cultural Heritage in Armenia
2018 – 2019
October 23: Tanja Michalsky, Acting Director of Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institute for Art History, Rome, Porous Naples. Reflections on the analysis of characteristic places in the network of urban space
December 6: R. R. R. Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Maiestas Serena: Court Cameos and Early Imperial Panegyric
January 31: Mitchell B. Merback, Arnell and Everett Land Professor in the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, Live from Golgotha: Performing Derick Baegert’s Passion
February 6: Dr. Gaëlle Morel, Exhibitions Curator at the Ryerson Image Centre, The Figure of a Professional Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White at Fortune (1930–1937)
2017 – 2018
October 5: David Young Kim, Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Gentile da Fabriano and Gold Ground
February 8: Marcia Hall, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture,
April 12: Sarah Betzer, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia, Moving Statues: Towards an Eighteenth-Century Ontology of the Antique
2016 – 2017
October 27: Maria Loh, Professor in Art History at CUNY Hunter College, Carne Viva and Titian’s Art of Life
November 3: Gretchen E. Henderson, Ugliness: A Cultural View on Art History
March 2: Karen Redrobe, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, The Risk of Tolerance: Art and Innovation in the Research University
March 23: Christopher Atkins, Agnes and Jack Mulroney Associate Curator of European Painting & Sculpture before 1900 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rubens, Michelangelo, and the Tortured Male Body
2015 – 2016
October 29: Katherine Welch, Associate Professor of Fine Arts at New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, The Roman Theater and Stadium at Aphrodisias, Two Monuments of Augustan Imperial Victory
December 3: Michael Meister, W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asia Studies, Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Measuring Monuments
March 3: Noam Elcott, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, Oskar Schlemmer’s Invisible Corpus
April 7: Naby Avcioglu, Hunter College
2014 – 2015
September 25: Dr. Leon de la Barra,
December 11: Dr. Reed
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April: Dr. Alexander Potts
2013 – 2014
November 14: Andre Dombrowski, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania, Painting at the Speed of Consciousness: Impressionism and Reaction Time
November 21 (Co-sponsored with CHAPS): Alessandra Ricci, Assistant Professor Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University-Istanbul, Emotive Heritage: Byzantine Period Archaeological Spaces in Istanbul
February 6: Andreas Henning, Curator of Italian Paintings, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, New investigations on Annibale Carracci’s Saint Roch Distributing Alms and the Collection of Bolognese Paintings in Dresden
March 4: David Hurst Thomas, Curator, North American Archaeology-Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, Repatriating Science, Race, and Identity: Are We Still Fighting the Skull Wars?
April 17: Caroline Walker Bynum, American Medieval scholar and a University Professor emerita at Columbia University and Professor emerita of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
2011 – 2012
October 20: Jodi Cranston, Boston University, The Disordered Bed in Giorgione’s/Titian’s Sleeping Venus
November 17: Dian Kriz, Brown University, Turner’s Slavers, Race, and the Ridiculous Human Fragment
March 29: Monica McTighe
April 12: Catherine Morris, Curator, Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Lucy R. Lippard and the Making of “Six Years”: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, 1966-1972”
2010 – 2011
September 28: Catherine Whistler, St. John’s College, Oxford, Uncovering Beauty: Titian’s ‘Triumph of Love’ in the Vendramin Collection
October 21: Stephen Campbell, Johns Hopkins, Mantegna in Padua: Cult Images and Humanist Hagiography 1450-1460
November 18: Alexander Nemerov, Yale University, The Flame of Place: Abraham Lincoln
February 17: Bridget Alsdorf, Princeton University, Fantin-Latour and the Funeral of the Avant-Garde
March 10: Adrian Randolph, Dartmouth University, The Intimacy of Italian Renaissance Art