Duke Event Calendar

AAHVS Visiting Speaker Series Talk: "Global Pop Art and the Cold War"

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

John J. Curley (Associate Professor of Art History, Wake Forest University)

2019 AAHVS Graduate Student Symposium

Friday, February 22, 2019

2:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Elisabeth Narkin, Kelly C. Tang, Felipe Alvarez de Toledo, Amanda Lazarus

AAHVS Visiting Speaker Series Talk: "Critiquing the Center/Periphery Narrative: The Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde in Portugal during World War I"

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Joana Cunha Leal (Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, Director of the Art History Institute, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)

Spring 2019 MA Thesis Showcase and Reception

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Rob Arcand, Nina Feng, Angelina Liu, Kira Xie

Computational Media, Arts & Cultures Open House

Friday, November 15, 2019

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Spaces of Translation

Friday, November 22, 2019

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Amara Solari (Penn State), Kristel Smentek (MIT), Dario Robleto (Houston, TX)

Fall 2019 MA Thesis Presentations (Digital Art History & Computational Media)

Monday, November 25, 2019

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Caitlin Burke, Alan Carrillo, Luke LeGrand, Christine Liu

2019 End-of-Semester Student Exhibition

Friday, December 06, 2019

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

CMAC Rendezvous Artist Lecture with Clement Valla

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Clement Valla

Manga 4.5: Building Comics with Tatami Mats and Stones

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Ryan Holmberg, PhD (Visiting Lecturer, UNC-CH)

AAHVS 2020 Graduate Student Symposium

Friday, February 21, 2020

2:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

James J. Bloom (Visiting Associate Professor of Art History, Hamilton College), Iris Gilad (Duke University PhD Student), Thea Ballard (Duke University PhD Student)

A Tale of Two Tapestries in the Colonial Andes

Thursday, February 27, 2020

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Julia K. McHugh (Trent A. Carmichael Curator of Academic Initiatives at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University)

What's in Anonymity? The Economics of Indeterminate Works of Art

Tuesday, March 03, 2020

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Anne-Sophie V.E. Radermecker (Belgian American Educational Foundation B.A.E.F. Fellow Duke University, DALMI and Research collaborator Université libre de Bruxelles)

Printmaking for Art and Science

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Bob Goldstein (James L. Peacock III Distinguished Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill)

“Anarchist Nominalism: Bergson, Art and Ideology”

Thursday, October 20, 2022

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Mark Antliff (Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Duke University)

“Collections”

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Leah Sobsey (Associate Professor of Photography Curator and Director of the Gatewood Gallery University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

“Art and Dirt: Kim Gordon’s Aesthetics of Impurity”

Thursday, November 03, 2022

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Branden W. Joseph (Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University)

AAHVS Visiting Artist Talk with Richard “Ricky” Armendariz

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Richard “Ricky” Armendariz (Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio)

Art, Art History & Visual Studies Majors and Minors Open House

Thursday, February 02, 2023

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Paul Jaskot, AAHVS Department Chair

Art, Art History & Visual Studies Majors and Minors Open House

Thursday, February 02, 2023

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Paul Jaskot, AAHVS Dept Chair

Art, Art History & Visual Studies Majors and Minors Open House

Thursday, March 02, 2023

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Paul Jaskot, AAHVS Dept Chair

Maria Sibylla Merian and the Crisis of the Plantation Domestic Interior

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Caroline Fowler (Starr Director, Research and Academic Program (RAP), The Clark Institute Lecturer in Art History, Williams College)

“Sparking Stewardship”

Thursday, November 09, 2023

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim “localStyle”

“Synaptic Sculpture”

Thursday, February 29, 2024

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Pinar Yoldas, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego

¨On the path of the messenger¨

Thursday, April 11, 2024

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Miler Lagos

100 Years of History, Practice, and Theory: Celebrating Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University

Friday, April 12, 2024

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Jasmina Tumbas (Art History Ph.D., ’13; University at Buffalo), Bishop Ortega (Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts, ’20; independent artist), Maya Robinson (Visual & Media Studies B.A., ’11; Apple), Quran Karriem (Computational Media, Arts & Cultures Ph.D., ’23; Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University), Elizabeth Baltes (Art History Ph.D., ’16; Coastal Carolina University), Charles Sparkman (Art History B.A., ’09; Quinn Evans), Susanna V. Temkin (Art History B.A., ’07; El Museo del Barrio)

“Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War”

Thursday, September 12, 2024

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Łukasz Stanek (Professor of Architectural History, Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)

"GLORY BE THE QUEERS"

Thursday, September 26, 2024

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Justin Quaid Grubb (Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Stetson University)

"Chaos and Pathos: Digital Clowns and the future of animated visual storytelling in the age of AI"

Wednesday, October 09, 2024

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Richard Thompson (Associate Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology)

“Repression and Revision in Otto Dix’s Seven Mortal Sins”

Monday, October 28, 2024

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

James van Dyke (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Missouri)

“Threads that Bind: Textiles, Labour, and National Identity in Soviet Propaganda Posters”

Wednesday, November 06, 2024

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Mollie Arbuthnot, PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University)

“Worldmaking for the Afterlife: Fangmatan and the Art of Early Chinese Maps”

Thursday, January 23, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Michelle H. Wang (Associate Professor of Art and Humanities at Reed College)

“Environmental Art”

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Deborah Kruger

“Reinventing Documentary: Cornell Capa and the International Center of Photography (ICP)”

Thursday, February 06, 2025

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Nadya Bair (Assistant Professor of Art History at Hamilton College)

“Papermakers and Paperusers: Support as Image in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic”

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Adam Jasienski (Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University)

“Presencing Absence: Visual Cultures of Insurgency in the Andes and the Atlantic World”

**CANCELED**

Thursday, February 20, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Ananda Cohen-Aponte (Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University)

“Islamic Photo-Theologies: Thinking Through Image Making and the Human Figure from the Camera to AI”

Monday, February 24, 2025

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Mira Xenia Schwerda (Visiting Assistant Professor in the History of Art at Carleton College)

Circulation and Mediation: Photography and the Making of North Korea in Contemporary “Visual Culture”

Thursday, February 27, 2025

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Boyoung Chang (Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta)

"Mining Images, Planetary Networks: Central Europe, Potosí, and the Imperatives of Global-Ecocritical Art History"

Monday, March 03, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Elizabeth J. Petcu (Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh)

“Presencing Absence: Visual Cultures of Insurgency in the Andes and the Atlantic World”

Thursday, March 06, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

nanda Cohen-Aponte (Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University)

“Summoning Pearl Harbor”

Monday, March 24, 2025

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Alexander Nemerov (Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University)

"Stratified Modernity: Labor and the Regional Environment in Contemporary Japanese Art "

Thursday, April 17, 2025

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Dr. Stephanie M. Hohlios (Assistant Professor of Art History at Flagler College)

Book Talk: Between the Lines, with Duke Professor Pedro Lasch

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Pedro Lasch

“Ivory Archives and Temporalities at Sea”

Thursday, September 25, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Maggie Cao (David G. Frey Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Valle de Bravo: Looting, the Art Market, and the Destruction of a Mesoamerican City

Thursday, October 16, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Andrew Turner (Assistant Professor of Mesoamerican and Andean Art Provenance at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hll)

Wrestling with the Angel: On Art and its Afterlife

Monday, October 27, 2025

4:30 am - 6:00 am

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Lisa Saltzman (Professor of History of Art on the Emily Rauh Pulitzer '55 Professorship at Bryn Mawr College)

"Designing Regenerative Bio-Digital Futures"

Thursday, October 30, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Fiona Bell (Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing at the University of Maryland)

“Iranian Islamic Architecture Through the Eyes of Myron Bement Smith”

Thursday, November 13, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

David J. Roxburgh (Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History at Harvard University)

Image of Tissue Culture Incubutor from IMARA

"Biofabrication as Feminist Craft: Weaving Life at the Cellular Scale”

Tuesday, December 02, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter

“Sanctity Elusive and Manifest: The Nilometer at al-Rawda Island and its Cosmological Entanglements”

Thursday, December 04, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Heba Mostafa (Associate Professor, Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of Art History at the University of Toronto, St. George)

Bill Shannon presents Interdisciplinary Artist Video Talk in Two Parts

**CANCELED**

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Bill Shannon

a collage of still images from a 1967 Japanese TV commercial showing a mix of people, objects, and illustrations; Japanese katakana text

A Breakthrough in Early Japanese TV Commercials: 1967

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Yukie Takeuchi (Art and Advertising Design History, Doshisha University)

In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan

Thursday, February 12, 2026

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Alicia Volk (Japanese Art, University of Maryland)

Thinking with Occupied Iraq, 1941-1945: On Forms and Freedom

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Anneka Lenssen (Associate Professor of Global Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley)

ARTIST TALK - Alina Nazmeeva, Media Artist

Thursday, April 02, 2026

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Alina Nazmeeva, Media Artist

"Eco-Derived Pigment & Material Image-Making”

Thursday, October 15, 2026

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Bren Vienrich-Felling

“Towards an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenology of Whiteness: Madame du Barry, Zamor, and the Racial Politics of Marble”

Thursday, November 05, 2026

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Dr. Alicia Caticha (Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University)

"Architecture’s Forgotten Figures: The Unconventional Life and Work of Ella Briggs"

Thursday, November 19, 2026

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor

Despina Stratigakos (SUNY Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo)

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