Maria Sibylla Merian and the Crisis of the Plantation Domestic Interior
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Caroline Fowler (Starr Director, Research and Academic Program (RAP), The Clark Institute Lecturer in Art History, Williams College)
“Sparking Stewardship”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, November 09, 2023
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim “localStyle”
“Synaptic Sculpture”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Information Science + Studies (ISS), and Literature
Thursday, February 29, 2024
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Pinar Yoldas, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego
100 Years of History, Practice, and Theory: Celebrating Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA), and Trinity College
Friday, April 12, 2024
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, September 12, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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"
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, September 26, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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"
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Richard Thompson (Associate Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology)
“Repression and Revision in Otto Dix’s Seven Mortal Sins”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Monday, October 28, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
James van Dyke (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Missouri)
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“Threads that Bind: Textiles, Labour, and National Identity in Soviet Propaganda Posters”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Religious Studies
Thursday, January 23, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Michelle H. Wang (Associate Professor of Art and Humanities at Reed College)
“Environmental Art”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Deborah Kruger
“Reinventing Documentary: Cornell Capa and the International Center of Photography (ICP)”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, February 06, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Nadya Bair (Assistant Professor of Art History at Hamilton College)
“Papermakers and Paperusers: Support as Image in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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**
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, February 20, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Monday, February 24, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, February 27, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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"
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Monday, March 03, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, March 06, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
nanda Cohen-Aponte (Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University)
“Summoning Pearl Harbor”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Monday, March 24, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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 "
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, April 17, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Dr. Stephanie M. Hohlios (Assistant Professor of Art History at Flagler College)
Book Talk: Between the Lines, with Duke Professor Pedro Lasch
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Pedro Lasch
