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Upcoming Events: Spring Quarter 2008
(All events held in Kresge 3-430 unless noted)
A conference presented by the Department of Philosophy:
"Violence --- Political and Sacred"
April 2-3, 2008
Featuring three participating Art History professors: Hollis Clayson, Stephen Eisenman and Hannah Feldman. Click here for details.
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A lecture by Claire Bishop:
"How do you bring a classroom to life as if it were a work of art?
Pedagogy and/as Contemporary Art"
Friday, April 4
10am
Kresge 3-365
Claire Bishop is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at Warwick University, and Visiting Professor in the Curating Contemporary Art Department at the Royal College of Art, London.
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A lecture by Marc Gotlieb:
"Jean-Léon Gérôme: The Beholder's Share"
Thursday, April 10, 2008
5:00pm
In the second week of the spring term, Marc Gotlieb, Director of the Graduate Program at Williams College, will present a lecture on his current research and also offer a colloquium on publishing for graduate students. Building upon his experience as outgoing Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin, the flagship journal of Art History, this colloquium will offer professional mentoring to graduate students in an increasingly competitive field.
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A lecture by Karen Strassler,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at CUNY:
"The Face of Money: Crisis, Currency, and Remediation in
Post-Suharto Indonesia"
Monday, April 14
5pm
Kresge 2-130
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A lecture by Anne Helmreich,
Associate Professor of Art History at Case Western University
"London and the International Art Market:
the Goupil Case Study"
Monday, April 21
5pm
April 21
Hagstrum, University Hall 201
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A lecture by Page Dubois:
"Ancient Greeks in the 21st century"
Wednesday, May 7
5pm
Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street
Page Dubois, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC San Diego, is the author of works including Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women; Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from Conservatives; and Slaves and Other Objects. Presented by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
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An exhibition:
"Design in the Age of Darwin: English and American Decorative Arts from William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright"
May 8-August 24, 2008
with a symposium on Saturday, May 17
Block Museum of Art
This exhibition, curated by Professor Stephen Eisenman, will explore how Darwin’s evolutionary theories influenced American and British designers of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. The exhibition will display household items like furniture, metalwork, jewelry, and wallpaper as well as publications and drawings by six pivotal designers.
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A lecture by
Homai Vyarawalla and Sabeena Gadihoke
"The Lady in the Rough Crowd: Homai Vyarawalla
and her Chronicles of India"
Monday, May 12
5pm
McCormick Tribune Centre
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A lecture by
Maria Gough
Associate Professor of Modern Art,
Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University
"Drawing for World Revolution"
Tuesday, May 13
5:15pm
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A lecture by Takao Kawaguchi
Performer, Dumb Type
"Dumb Type: Adventure into the Frontiers of
Multimedia Performance"
Friday, May 16
12 pm - 2pm
Kresge 3-365
Please join us for a lunch reception at 12 pm
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A lecture by Josh Ellenbogen,
Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh
Details TBA
May 19-20
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A conference:
"(World) Art: Art History and Global Practice"
Friday, May 23 from 3pm-8pm
Saturday, May 24 from 10am-6pm
McCormick Tribune Center
This conference, organized by Visiting Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History Christopher Pinney, explores the strangely limited scope of Art History's 'map.' Its cartography is in the course of being democratized. But this conference poses the following: what if instead of attending to territorial ‘gaps’, or demanding that ‘other’ art be admitted into the halls of modernism, we were to ask different kinds of conceptual questions about Art History’s epistemology?
Keynote Speakers:
Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University (Friday 23 May)
Okwui Enwezor, San Francisco Art Institute (Saturday 24 May)
Other Speakers:
Stan Abe, Duke University
Fred Bohrer, Hood College
Clare Harris, Oxford University
Kajri Jain, University of Toronto
Saloni Mathur, UCLA
Allen Roberts, UCLA
Michael Rowlands, University College London
Aron Vinegar, Ohio State University
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A symposium:
"68/08"
Friday, June 6
10am-5pm
Harris Hall 108
On the occasion of the 40th year anniversary of the mass uprisings, strikes, and manifestations that marked 1968 around the globe, Assistant Professor Hannah Feldman is organizing a colloquium and lecture series to bring scholars from a variety of fields that touch upon the visual and the urban to Northwestern, where they will explore the implications of 1968 for understanding the intersections of politics and culture today.
Participants include...
Charity Scribner, Class of 1954 Career Development Professor of European Cultural Studies, MIT
Rachel Haidu, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
Judith Rodenbeck, Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History, Sarah Lawrence College
Tim Brown, Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern University
Christopher Dunn, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane
Steven Nelson, Associate Professor of African and African American Art History, UCLA
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, UC Irvine
Phil Ford, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Indiana
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Recent Past Events:
Winter Quarter 2008
(All events held in Kresge 3-430 unless noted)
An inaugural lecture by Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities
Hollis Clayson
Monday, March 3, 2008
5pm
Harris 107
Please join us for a reception after the lecture in Harris 108.
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A lecture by T.J. Clark:
"Picasso in the Later 1920s"
Wednesday, March 12
5pm
Block Museum of Art
T.J. Clark is professor of Art History at UC Berkeley. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and the Block Museum of Art.
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Fall Quarter 2007
(All events held in Kresge 3-430 unless noted)
A lecture by Professor Haidy Geismar:
"The Photograph and the Malangann: Theorizing Images in Vanuatu"
Tuesday, October 30
5pm
Haidy Geismar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at New York University. Her most recent publication is Moving Images: John Layard, Fieldwork and Photography on Malakula since 1914. Her areas of specialization include visual and economic anthropology; intellectual, cultural, and indigenous property rights; cross-cultural theories of valuation; materiality; and contemporary indigenous art.
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A presentation by
The Speculative Archive
Wednesday, October 31
5pm
Block Museum of Art
The Speculative Archive (Los Angeles-based artists David Thorne and Julia Meltzer) has created videos, photographs, installations, and published texts centered on war, state
secrecy, and the production of the past. The artists will screen work that examines war, state secrecy, and the production of the past as a platform to assess the forms and possibilities of documentary production in contemporary society.
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A lecture by Professor Andrew Stewart:
"Designing Women: The Hetaira as Model from Phintias to Praxiteles"
Monday, November 5
5pm
Andrew Stewart is Professor of Greek art at UC Berkeley. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Classical Traditions Initiative.
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A lecture by Professor Bibiana Obler:
"Object, Sculpture, God: Recasting Sophie Taeuber's Marionettes"
Monday, November 19
5pm
Bibiana Obler is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.
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A workshop:
"Art/Text/Imagination:
The Unrepresentable and Early Modern Culture"
November 29&30
Harris Hall, room 108
and the Block Museum of Art
"Art/Text/Imagination" is a two-day workshop designed to explore the socio-political, art historical, and literary context of early modern imagination by focusing on the production, function, and reception of visual and textual representations of imagined images. Featuring keynote speaker Leonard Barkin, Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Organized by Claudia Swan (NU Department of Art History) and Marco Ruffini (NU Department of French & Italian).
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