Join exhibition curator Edith Devaney and Waqas Wajahat, long-term advisor to the Milton Avery Trust, as they bring insight into the work and practice of one of the most important and influential 20th-century American artists, …
SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERIES VIRTUAL LECTURE SERIES HEARSAY ON AMERICA (AND ETHIOPIA) AROUND 1340 Paolo Chiesa, University of Milan In his talk Paolo Chiesa will present new findings emerging from the study of the (still …
“Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941” Speaker: Sebastian Heubel (University of the Fraser Valley) Commentator: Sarah Imhoff (Indiana State University) Chair: Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of …
The Poetry Panel on September 8 will focus on displacement–specifically how artists of color cope with feeling displaced in Madison. The panel is in tandem with the Home exhibition because both focus on how art creates …
Destruction and Preservation of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage in Time of War Friday, September 9th, 2022 | 11:00am–12:00pm CT | Zoom | Link here Professor Ihor Lyman is in the Department of History and Philosophy at …
Windows onto Sanctity: Monks’s Cells and Hagioscopes in Byzantine Churches Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania Respondent: Vasileios Marinis, Yale University
Please join the Medieval Studies Program for Felix Szabo's (University of Chicago) lecture "Eunuchs in the Imperial Family: Contextualizing Basil the Nothos" at 1:00pm CT at the Memorial Union, Friday, September 9th, 2022. This lecture …
Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based Colombian digital artist, technologist, and educator. She is Dean of the School of Design Strategies, Associate Dean of Parsons, and Associate Professor of Integrated Design. She has held …
In this in-person Humanities Without Boundaries talk, Julia Stern reflects on the significance of love and work, Freud’s indices of a life well lived, and on her teaching and scholarship over 30 years. Stern explores …
White Dorsality Professor Wan-Chauan Kao (English, Washington & Lee University) Thursday, September 15th, 2022 | 7191 Helen C. White | 4:00pm CT In this talk, Kao examines the imbrication of race and religion in the …
Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 5pm ET RED EARTH ZOOM Gallery Talk about Ogawa Machiko And her latest exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD Acclaimed clay artist Ogawa Machiko can be called a true master of …
A national nonprofit organization, the SS United States Conservancy leads the global effort to save and repurpose America’s Flagship, the SS United States. The Conservancy raises public awareness and financial resources for the historic vessel's …
"Of Rice and Roses: Preliminary Thoughts on Critical Pleasure and the Philosophy of Sabai" Prof. Boreth Ly, Art History, UC–Santa Cruz Friday, September 16th, 2022 | 12:00–1:30pm CT | 206 Ingraham Hall Born in the …
DARK MATTER Exhibition Celebration | Opening Reception and Artist Talk with Faisal Abdu'Allah Join us for a FREE special reception marking the opening of Faisal Abdu'Allah: DARK MATTER, including a talk by the artist at …
Join the Arts + Literature Laboratory on Saturday, September 17th at 7:00pm to hear from Alison Townsend, Catherine Young, and Daniel Smith with environmentally focused readings.
Join us on Sunday, September 18 from 2:00–4:00pm for a reading from the Tension Zones Collective Daybook. This program is part of The Shape of the Environment, an exhibition curated by Lelia Byron, on display …
Monday, September 19, 2022 | 12:15pm CT Momentum Studio | Nicholas Recreation Center Emily Ostertag, 2017 Early Career Alumni Award Winner, will share her journey as a former UW swimmer (‘02-‘06) and School of Human Ecology …
Religion as Peoplehood, Native Americans, the Environment, and the Sacred Professor Michael McNally (John M. & Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies at Carleton College) Monday, September 19th, 2022 | 5:30pm CT | DeLuca …
"Inventing the Alphabet" Author and book artist Dr. Johanna Drucker, UCLA, discusses this history of the alphabet on September 20 at the Chazen Museum of Art auditorium. The alphabet is a set of signs that …
Regina Rini, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition, York University "The Trauma Echo: Science and Public Uncertainty in the Data Century" Just over a century …
German-born and the daughter of two ballet dancers, Erika Diamond is a textile-focused visual artist, curator, and educator. Diamond’s work addresses the vital and fleeting qualities of human contact. It investigates the possibility of immortality, …
Imaginaries of LA is a series of conversations between Los Angeles-based artists, scholars, and curators, providing a forum for debate about representations of the city. In this fourth iteration, archival scholar Michelle Caswell, social scientist Laura …
Until recently, the name of Santorio Santori (Sanctorius, 1561-1636) was linked to the practice of self-experimentation and weight-watching. Yet the Venetian physician went well beyond that, and can rightly be considered the founding father of …
“Thrifty Businesswoman or Exploiter Extraordinaire? The Madam in Nineteenth-Century Russia” with Colleen Lucey Professor Lucey will consider how Russia’s writers and artists popularized images of madams and procuresses as manipulative and greedy figures who tricked …
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Carl Hostetter is unable to join us in person to deliver Editing the Tolkienian Manuscript. The lecture will instead be presented live via Zoom at the previously scheduled time: …
The Center for Design and Material Culture, in partnership with the Department of Art History, is hosting a Material Culture Symposium in conjunction with our current exhibit, Questioning Things: A Quarter Century of Material Culture Studies at …
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, …
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 …