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.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2019 | 5:30 p.m.
006 Willard Hall
Jennifer Van Horn
Assistant Professor of Art History and History University of Delaware
‘Stealing a glance’: Enslaved Viewers and Iconoclasts in the Plantation South
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 |
1:30 p.m.
101 Recitation Hall
WAYNE CRAVEN LECTURE
Susan Rather
Professor, Department of Art and Art History
University of Texas, Austin
Memento: Samuel F. B. Morse’s First Art Teacher and the Resonance of Miniature Painting
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 | 5:30 p.m.
Location TBD
ANDREW W. MELLON CURATORIAL TRACK PH.D. LECTURE
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro
Associate Director for Conservation and Research
Whitney Museum of American Art
Beyond the Image: Materiality and Meaning
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | 5:30 p.m.
Location TBD
Marisa Bass
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art
Yale University
The Death of the Monument in the Dutch Republic
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | 1:30 p.m.
Location TBD
Jodi Hauptman
Senior Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of the Revolution
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 | 5:30 p.m.
Location TBD
Elizabeth Hutchinson
Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Barnard College, Columbia University
Ecologies of American Survey Photography
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 | 5:00 p.m.
211 Old College Hall
Moderated by Sandy Isenstadt
Professor & Department Chair, Department of Art History
University of Delaware
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 | 1:30 p.m.
Location TBD
WILLIAM I. HOMER LECTURE
Makeda Best
Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography
Harvard Art Museums