September 24-26, 2025 – Official Centennial Celebration (please join us!)
We invite you to join faculty, students, and alumni of the department as we reflect fondly on past achievements, discuss our current best practices, and reimagine how the department can remain on the cutting edge as we enter our next century.
Wednesday, September 24
2025-26 Gombar/Duychak Lecture
- Dr. Julia Murray, Professor Emerita
- Title TBA
Thursday, September 25
Centennial Symposium panels, 1:00-5:00 p.m. (Elvehjem Lower Level classrooms)
Join us for part 1 of the symposium with these thematic panels
- Art History after Intersectionality (Jill Casid, Chair)
- Rethinking Race and Colonialism in Premodern European Art and Contemporary Museum Practice (Prof. Thomas Dale, Chair)
- Beyond the Art History Degree: Alumni Voices (Prof. Anna Andrzejewski, Chair)
Centennial Reception, Chazen Museum of Art Lobby, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Join us for hors oeuvre, presentations, and conversation as we commemorate this momentous occasion.
Friday, September 26
Centennial Symposium panels, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Elvehjem Lower Level classrooms)
Join us for part 2 of the symposium with these thematic panels
- Your Favorite Courses! 100 Plus Years of Teaching and Learning Art History at UW-Madison (Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall, Chair)
- Return to the Object: The Material and Sensory Turn (Professor Yuhang Li, Chair)
- Interdisciplinary Collaborations on Campus & Beyond (Prof. Anna Andrzejewski, Chair)
Art History “Open House” at the Chazen Museum of Art and the Kohler Art Library (2:00 – 4:00 p.m.)
Please join members of the art history faculty, academic staff, art history students, and departmental alumni, who will be stationed throughout the Chazen offering perspectives on works of art, collections, and spaces and celebrating the department’s ongoing legacy.
- Lecture by Dr. Henry Drewal, Professor Emertus
- “Come to Your Senses! — Sensiotics and Understandings of Arts and Culture in Africa and Beyond.”
- Supported by the University Lectures Committee and generous donors to the Department of Art History
November 13, 2025
Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture and Performance Studies with support from Art History
- Lecture by Dr. Sophia Maxine Farmer (Ph.D. 2019), University of Kentucky, Thursday, November 13, 5:00 p.m.
- Title TBA
PAST EVENTS
September 19 and 20, 2024 – Making Art History for Public Audiences
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Center for Design and Material Culture, and the Department of Design Studies
- Grad Student Workshop, Thursday, September 19, 4:00 p.m., Center for the Humanities
- Panel Discussion, Friday, September 20, 10:00 a.m., Elvehjem L150 with Marsely Kehoe, Independent Scholar; Emily Pfotenhauer, Taliesin Preservation; and Sarah Fayen Scarlett, Michigan Tech available on YouTube live
- Lecture by Dr. Marsely Kehoe, Friday, September 20, 4:00 p.m., Elvehjem L150 available on YouTube live
February 6 and 7, 2025 – Transforming Curatorial Practice in the 21st Century
Co-sponsored by the Chazen Museum of Art
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Lecture by Linde B. Lehtinen, Thursday, February 6, 5:00 p.m., Chazen Auditorium followed by a reception in the Chazen Lobby from 6:00-7:30 p.m available on YouTube live
- Grad Student Workshop, Friday, February 7, 12:00 – 1:30pm, Hagen Room. This is a professional development workshop/lunch with graduate students & prospective students. Advanced registration required.
- “Transforming Curatorial Practice” Panel Discussion Friday, February 7, 4:30 pm, Chazen Auditorium and available on YouTube live. The panel will be moderated by Katherine Alcauskas (Chazen) and Prof. Jill Casid, and feature distinguished alumni participants:
- Marcela Guerrero (Ph.D. 2015), DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
- Linde B. Lehtinen (Ph.D. 2014), Philip D. Nathanson Senior Curator of Photography, Huntington Library
- Drew Sawyer (B.A. 2004, Ph.D. (2015) from Columbia University), Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art
February 13, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:00PM Art History Centennial Reception at the College Art Association’s Annual Conference
New York Hilton Midtown, 4th Floor, Lincoln
CAA 113th Annual Conference
March 6 and 7, 2025 – Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Lecture
- Lecture by Prof. Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Thursday, March 6, 2025, Elvehjem Building
- Grad Student Workshop, Friday, March 7, 2025
April 3 and 4, 2025 – Campus Art Museums as Learning Labs
Co-sponsored by the Chazen Museum of Art and the Center for Design and Material Culture