Past Events

November 13, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

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

Chazen Museum of Art
September 24, 2025 @ 5:30 pm
https://arthistory.wisc.edu/centennial-events/

September 24, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - September 26, 2025
https://arthistory.wisc.edu/arthistorycentennial/centennial-events/

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 …

September 4, 2025 @ 3:00 pm

Please join us on Thursday, September 4th at 3:00pm CT for the 2025 Douglas Schewe Award lecture. This year’s award will be presented to two awardees: Sarah Ganzel and Katie Juneau. Sarah Ganzel (Ph.D. Student) …

Elvehjem Building, Room L140
April 29, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Please join the Department of Art History, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for Design and Material Culture, and the the Religious Studies Program for a lecture with by Natasha Heller, Professor of Chinese …

Elvehjem Building, Room L140
April 25, 2025 @ 2:30 pm

Please join the Department of Art History, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the Center for Design and Material Culture for a lecture with by Rachel Silberstein, Independent Scholar and a fellow in the …

Elvehjem L140
April 4, 2025 @ 4:00 pm

Please join us for an Art History Distinguished Alum Lecture with Kendra Greendeer. Kendra Greendeer examines Indigenous museum practices alongside land and materiality relations through an aesthetic emphasis on “rematriation,” an Indigenous women led initiative …

Elvehjem L140
April 3, 2025 @ 5:30 pm
https://youtube.com/live/w8iLw9l6YDg?feature=share

On April 3rd and 4th, 2025, the Department of Art History in collaboration with the Chazen Museum of Art and the Center for Design and Material Culture will host our third Centennial Event, Campus Art …

Professor Suzanne Preston Blier
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building (north entrance), Hagen room (150)
March 7, 2025 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

2025 Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Workshop “From Igbo Ukwu to Igbo Landing: How Medieval African Objects Speak” Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University Open to …

Professor Suzanne Preston Blier
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L140
March 6, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

2025 Howard S. Schwartz Memorial Annual Lecture Series “1325: Mansa Musa, Al-Saheli, and How Medieval Africa Helped Shape Modernity” Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American …