Lecture provided by Louis P. Nelson, Professor of Architectural History and Vice Provost for Academic Outreach, University of Virginia Funded by the University Lectures General Fund Sponsored by the Department of Art History with co-sponsorship …
Events
Lecture: From Magdeburg to Charlottesville via Munich
The Borghesi-Mellon Workshop: “Thinking Race: Migration, Representation, Appropriation in the Middle Ages and Beyond” presents a public lecture by Professor Madeline H. Caviness (Emerita, Department of English, Tufts University) titled: “From Magdeburg to Charlottesville via …
Lecture and Workshop by Ellis Hanson
Hanson’s lecture will be part of a three-speaker, year-long, exploration of the minor that seeks to explore visual culture that may otherwise be considered incidental to study. Isabelle Loring Wallace and Sianne Ngai, the other …
Winds, Dreams, Theater: A Genealogy of Emotion Realms through the Lens of the Peony Pavilion
“Winds, Dreams, Theater: A Genealogy of Emotion Realms through the Lens of the Peony Pavilion,” a public lecture by Prof. Ling Hon Lam. The lecture will raise many issues of art historical interests by looking …
Lecture: Seeing Data: Information in Culture & Commerce
Miriam Posner is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Information. She’s also a digital humanist with interests in labor, race, feminism, and the history and philosophy of data. As a digital humanist, she …
American Profanations: A lecture by Professor Tavia Nyong’o
Tavia Nyong’o, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Theater Studies at Yale University, will present his research that takes the 1957 MGM film, “Something of Value,” a film that allegorically maps Native North …
Symposium “On Human Nature: Machiavelli’s Mandrake at 500”
Niccolò Machiavelli’s political treatise The Prince (1513) casts its shadow far and wide across the humanities and social sciences. Often eclipsed by the scandalous, utilitarian ethics of the treatise – as well as by Shakespeare’s …
Lecture: Cultivating Citizens with Art in Wisconsin by Prof. Lauren Kroiz
Prof. Lauren Kroiz (University of California, Berkeley) discusses the Wisconsin origins of her new book, Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era. Her lecture centers on the University of …
Graduation Celebration
Please join us for the annual graduation celebration at 3:00 p.m. at the University Club.
Senior Thesis Presentations
Please join us for the annual senior thesis presentations at 2:30 p.m. in Elvehjem L170, followed by a reception in the Hagen Room.