
“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)