Lecture Archives

Search the archives of the Harn Eminent Scholar Program's past lectures to find out which worldly scholars have travelled to the University of Florida to enhance our knowledge of art history topics.

 

Chronological List of Lectures & Lecturers



2008-2009 Lectures

 

10/23/08, Libby Prussin (Independent Scholar of African Architecture), Convivencia at Timbuktu: Artisans, Architects, and Archetypes

11/20/08, Margaret Werth (Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware), Modernity and the Face

01/22/09, Keith Davis (Curator of Photography at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art), Documentary and Its Discontents: The Making and Meaning of Civil War Photographs

02/05-06/09, Symposium: Ridicule, Irony and Wit in 18th Century French Art and Literature
Participants Include: Keynote Speaker, Bernadette Fort (Professor of French/Adjunct Professor of Art History, Northwestern University) and Mark Ledbury (Associate Director of the Research and Academic Program, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute)

02/18/09, Edward Shaughnessy (Lorraine J & Herrlee G Creel Professor in Early Chinese Studies, University of Chicago), Images of Ancient China: Nature and Its Meaning in the Book of Changes

02/19/09, William Truettner (Senior Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Painting Indians and Building Empires in North America, 1710-1840

02/20-22/09, Symposium: Collectors, Collections and Collecting the Arts of China: Histories and Challenges
Keynote Speaker: Nick Pearce (Director of the Institute for Art History, Professor Chinese Art History, University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Participants:
Robert D. Mowry (Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art at Harvard University’s Arthur M. Sacker Museum)
Deborah Del Gais (Curator of Asian Art, the RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design) 3. Magnus Fiskesjö (Former Director of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm; Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University)
Amy Poster (Curator Emerita of the Brooklyn Museum’s Asian Art Department)
Elinor Pearlstein (Associate Curator of Chinese Art, the Art Institute of Chicago)
Zaixin Hong (Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Puget Sound)
Shen Chen (Senior Curator, Ancient Chinese Archaeology, Royal Ontario Museum)
Nixi Cura (Course Director, Arts of China, Christie’s Education, London)
Stacey Pierson (Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics Art and Archaeology, Department SOAS University of London)

03/19/09, Charles Green (University of Melbourne, Australia), Official War Artists in Iraq and Afghanistan: Committed Irretrievably to Chance; Suddenly Things Cease to Obey

03/23/09, Jay Xu (Director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California), An Unique Pair: The Bronze Rhinoceros And Its Collector, Avery Brundage (1887-1975)

04/02/09, Bai Ming (Fine Arts Academy of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), The Status of Contemporary Chinese Ceramics

 

 

2007-2008 Lectures

 

09/27/07, Ute Meta Bauer (Associate Professor and Director of the Visual Arts Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Architectures of Discourse – The Potential and Problematic of Curated Exhibitions

10/25/07, John Picton (Professor Emeritus of African Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ. of London), Body Marking is a cornerstone in African Art: A contribution to the history of art in late 20th century Nigeria

10/30/07, Julian Stellabrass (Senior Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art, London), Remembering Photographs, Politically

11/07/07, Amelia Jones (Pilkington Chair and Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, Univ. of Manchester), Aesthetics, Art History and Identity

11/19/07, Susan Siegfried (University of Michigan), Venus as Odalisque: Ingres’ Reimagining of the Female Nude

02/06/08, Stephen Wright (Professor at l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris), Invisible Now: Art After Spectatorship

02/18/08, Zhang Changping (Deputy Director of the Hubei Provincial Institute of Archaeology and Deputy Director of the Hubei Provincial Museum, Wuhan, China), Early Chinese Bronzes: A New Approach to the Technology of Casting Inscriptions

03/20/08, Wanda Corn (Stanford University), Seeing (Not Reading) Gertrude Stein

04/02/08, Mignon Nixon (Professor of Art, Courtauld Institute, Univ. of London), Transference and the “Woman Artist”

04/03/08, Qianshen Bai (Associate Professor of Chinese Art, Chinese Calligrapher, Boston University), The Change of Elite Structure and Its Impact on Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy

04/15/08, Robin McNeal (Associate Professor, Cornell University), The Mythic Landscape of Contemporary China: Excavating and Restoring the Virtue of the Sage Emperor Shun on the Southern Frontier

04/23/08, Isabelle Graw (Professor of Art History, Kunsthochschule-Städelschule Frankfurt am Main), The Art Work kin the Age of its Marketability

 

 

2006-2007 Lectures

 

09/08/06, John Welchman (Professor of Art History at the University of California, San Diego), Actions Against the State: Paul McCarthy’s Pirate Project

09/27/06, Carol Armstrong (Director, Program in the Study of Women and Gender Doris Sterns Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University), Nadar’s Balloon: Modernism Inside-Out

10/20/06, Mary Jo Arnoldi (Curator of African Ethnology, National Museum of Natural History), Monuments, Museums, and Memory: Constructing History in Contemporary Mali

11/01/06, John Henry Merryman (Sweitzer Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Art, Emeritus, Stanford University), Great Cases in Art Law

11/02/06, Dickran Tashijan (Professor Emeritus, Art History, University of California-Irvine), Adventures in the Arts: Marsden Hartley and the First American Avant-Garde

11/13/06, Mary D Sherriff (W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art Dept at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Petrified? Painting Medusa in 18th Century France

02/03/07, Symposium: Muses and Means: Patronizing the Arts
Keynote Speaker: Adrian WB Randolph (Leon E. Williams Professor of Art History, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Dartmouth College)

02/08/07, Haile Gerima (Howard University), Adwa: An African Victory

02/15/07, Salem Mekuria (Wellesley College), IMAGinING TOBIA

03/28/07, Norman Bryson (Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego), Limited Freedoms: Art in Shanghai Since 1991

04/05/07, Chen Songcheng (Professor and Director of the Hunan Provincial Museum), New Research on the Mawangdui Silk Manuscripts and Paintings

04/05/07, Chen Wei (Professor, Wuhan University), Shanghai Museum Collection: Early Chinese Narrative in Light of Newly Discovered Bamboo Books

 

 

2005-2006 Lectures

 

01/17/06, Glenn D Lowry (Director of the Museum of Modern Art) Rethinking the Modern

01/31/06, Boris Groys (Global Distinguished Professor, New York University and Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory, Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany), Art and Identity: The New Europe

02/04/06, Symposium: From Ritual to Revelry
Keynote Speaker: Patrick McNaughton (Chancellor's Professor of Art History, Indiana University)

02/27/06, Olga Palagia (Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Athens, Greece), Ancient Macedonian Painting

03/02-04/06, Symposium: New Directions in Contemporary Art
Participants: Nora Alter, Sabeth Buchmann, Whitney Davis, Helmut Draxler, Harun Farocki, Hal Foster, Renee Green, Branden Joseph, James Meyer, Juliana Rebentisch, Terry Smith, Julian Stallabrass, Blake Stimson, Maureen Turim, and Anne Wagner

03/24/06, H Alan Shapiro (W.H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University), Painters Patrons and Playboys in Ancient Athens
 

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