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
