Duke Event Calendar

“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)

“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)

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