Lecture Series 2021-2022

Every year a committee, comprised of graduate students and one faculty member, organizes a yearlong series of lectures by prominent scholars, curators and visual artists on various topics in art history.

Locations or Zoom Information To Be Announced​​

​Thursday, February 24, 2022
WILLIAM I. HOMER LECTURE

5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom​ 

Contact Info for Lecture: arth-gsls@udel.edu​​

Tina Campt is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and is currently visiting professor in the Department of Art and Archeology at Princeton University. 

A black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and a founding researcher in Black European Studies, Campt heads the Black Visualities Initiative at the Cogut Institute for Humanities at Brown and is the convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project. Campt is author/editor of five books: Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (2004), Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe (2012), Listening to Images (2017), Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (with Hirsch, Hochberg and Willis, 2020) and most recently, A Black Gaze (2021).​

​Thursday, March 10, 2022
211 Old College Hall​, 5:30 p.m.

Graduate Student Research Presentations
Moderated by Sandy Isenstadt
Professor & Department Chair, Department of Art History
University of Delaware​​

Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 5:30 p.m.
Location: Gore Hall Room 116​

Shana Klein
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History
Kent University

From Melons to Milk: What Representations of Food Tell Us About Race and Society​​​​​​​​​

Shana Klein is a professor at Kent State University and holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of New Mexico. She recently published the book, “The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion” with the University of California Press. This book demonstrates how pictures of food were not mere decoration, but a platform for artists and viewers to discuss heated debates over race and citizenship. In 2021, it won the SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication. Klein also has been awarded several fellowships for her research at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, among others.

Dr. Klein has presented her research in a number of peer-review journals and podcasts and she teaches classes that bring together American art, visual culture, and social justice. Brief description:Representations of food in the United States were delicious to look at and mouthwatering to paint. Although they were cheery and colorful, representations of fruit also communicated darker messages and cruel stereotypes about the people who produced and consumed food in the United States. This book talk will bring together Art History and Food Studies disciplines to reveal how pictures of foods—from watermelon to milk—struck the nerve of the nation’s most heated debates over labor, race, and citizenship.

Please email arth-gsls.udel.edu​ for more information.

Locations and Zoom information to be announced. Per University of Delaware Policy, all visitors to campus must adhere to University COVID protocols. 

For all virtual lectures, an email with registration information will be sent to department faculty and students for the appropriate Zoom link. Members of the public may contact arth-gsls@udel.edu to register. For more information and locations, please contact the Department of Art History by phone, (302) 831-8415, or email, arthistory@udel.edu​. To request disability accommodations, please call (302) 831-8415 at least 10 business days in advance of the event.​​

Funding for the 2021-2022 lecture series is generously provided by Center for Material Culture Studies, University Museums, Department of Art Conservation, English Department, Center for Global & Area Studies, Anthropology Department, European Studies, History Department, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and Latin American & Iberian Studies. Special thanks to Carol A. Nigro (Ph.D. 2009) and Charles Isaacs for their sponsorship of the William I. Homer Lecture and to Mr. William C. Allen for his sponsorship of the Wayne Craven Lecture.​

This lecture series is organized by the 2021-2022 graduate student lecture series committee: María Carrillo-Marquina and Thomas H. Price (co-chairs), Michael Hartman, Julia Hamer-Light, Lea Stephenson, Victoria Sunnergren, Megan Baker, Emily Peikin and Rachel Allen. The faculty advisor for the lecture series is Dr. Jennifer Van Horn.​

All events are part of the Department of Art History, University of Delaware.​

Thursday, September 9, 2021
5:30 p.m.

Denva Gallant
Assistant Professor of Art History

University of Delaware

Illustrating the Vitae patrum: The Rise of the Eremitic Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy​

Thursday, September 30, 2021
Zoom, 5:30 p.m.

WAYNE CRAVEN LECTURE​
​Kirsten Pai Buick

Professor, Department of Art and Art History
University of New Mexico

In Authenticity: 'Kara Walker' and the Eidetics of Racism​

Encouraged Readings: “Confessions of an Unintended Reader” in The Routledge Companion to African American Art History and “Seeing the Survey Anew" in American Art, fall 2020​

Thursday, October 28, 2021
5:30 p.m.

ANDREW W. MELLON CURATORIAL TRACK PH.D. LECTURE
Jill Ahlberg Yohe & Teri Greeves
Associate Curator of Native American Art; Co-Curator and Artist
Minneapolis Institute of Art

To Honor and Respect: Recognizing Native Women in Hearts of Our People​

Thursday, November 18, 2​021
12:30 p.m.​via Zoom:

Cécile Fromont
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art​
Yale University ​

Carlos Julião: Painting the Portuguese Empire in the Late Eighteenth Century

In this talk, Dr. Cécile Fromont considers the paintings through which Carlos Julião, an Italian-born officer of the Portuguese military, formed a portrait of the late 18th century Portuguese colonial empire. Taking a cue from the juxtaposition of topographical views, plans, and people in the images, Fromont examines Julião’s visual project through the lens of mapping as ​understood in its literal dictionary definition of a two dimensional “visual representation that shows the relative position of the parts of something.” In Julião’s visual geography, the physical and social space of Empire is measured not by kilometric distance but by political, societal, and commercial relations.​

Email arth-gsls@udel.edu for more information.​

2020-2021

2019-2020

2018-2019

2017-2018 (Transcending Temporalities: Explorations in Art History)

2016-2017 (Labor, Movement, Experience: New Directions in Art History)

2015-2016 (Histories of Form, Content, and Creation)

2014-2015 (Art History's Objects: The Cultural and Material Life of Things)

2013-2014 (People, Things, Ideas: Assembly Required)

2012-2013 (Field Directions: Art and History Today)

2011-2012 (Picturing Identity: Explorations across Time)

2010-2011 (Trajectories in Art History: Ancient to Contemporary)

2009-2010 (Fusions in Art: Methods, Criticism, and Culture)

2008-2009 (Making, Displaying, and Collecting Art)

2007-2008 (Art. History. Talk.)

2006-2007 (Liminal Visions, Elusive Objects)