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Chronological List of Lectures & Lecturers2008-2009 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 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 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 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
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 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 |
