The Rosetta Stone is arguably the most important Egyptian artefact ever discovered. It became the code-key to reading ancient hieroglyphics, the sacred script of the powerful priesthood – a skill lost for nearly 2000 years, …
The Haggerty Museum of Art is presenting "Tolkien Tuesdays" featuring gallery talks by Marquette University faculty members in conjunction with the exhibition J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript on view through December 23. The gallery …
Nicole Havekost, an artist living in Rochester, Minnesota, did not realize she was a sculptor, and now considers herself a recovering printmaker. She makes work that explores her relationship to this weird, resourceful, embarrassing, and …
This discussion explores concerns related to displaced cultural heritage, including the evacuation of important artworks from Ukraine’s collections and institutions due to the ongoing war, as well as how digital humanities and data rescue efforts …
“Crossroads of Empire: Culture and Statehood at the Eastern Frontiers of Europe” with Cristina Florea Bukovina, a former borderland of the Habsburg empire now divided between Ukraine and Romania, was a place of mutual observation, …
“Seeing, Hearing, Speaking: Rendering Life through Images and Words” I began acting in theater and in film, and writing fiction. Then I began to write plays and direct them. Together with a group of artists, …
About the Event Join us for Student Night at the UW–Madison Public History Project’s exhibition Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance at the Chazen Museum of Art. Learn more about the history …
Join Kettle’s Yard, the Centre for American Art at The Courtauld, and the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge for this conference on Howardena Pindell’s practice, on the occasion of her retrospective at …
"THE MEDICAL WORLD OF MARGARET CAVENDISH. Findings and Discoveries from the Mansuscript Pw V90" In this lecture, we describe our newly published edition and commentary on Nottingham MS Pw V90: a manuscript collection of recipes …
On October 6, 2022 from 11:00am–12:30pm EST, the Rare Book & Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress will be hosting an online event: "Opening the Case: The Giant Bible of Mainz at the …