“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
“Ivory Archives and Temporalities at Sea”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, September 25, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, October 16, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Monday, October 27, 2025
4:30 am - 6:00 am
Lisa Saltzman (Professor of History of Art on the Emily Rauh Pulitzer '55 Professorship at Bryn Mawr College)
"Designing Regenerative Bio-Digital Futures"
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, October 30, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Fiona Bell (Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing at the University of Maryland)
“Iranian Islamic Architecture Through the Eyes of Myron Bement Smith”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, November 13, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
David J. Roxburgh (Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History at Harvard University)
"Biofabrication as Feminist Craft: Weaving Life at the Cellular Scale”
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Tuesday, December 02, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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
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**
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Bill Shannon
A Breakthrough in Early Japanese TV Commercials: 1967
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
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
Alicia Volk (Japanese Art, University of Maryland)
