Find out who is speaking and when during the 2010-2011 UF calendar year. Students, faculty, staff, and the community are encouraged to get involved by preparing to engage in many thought-provoking topics on how art history relates to the world we know.

HESCAH Lectures 2010-2011

(The location of the lectures is the Chandler Auditorium, The Harn Museum of Art, unless otherwise stated)

October 11, Monday, 6:00 pm at the Harn

Doug Nickel, Andrea V. Rosenthal Professor of Modern Art, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University

"What Was a Photograph?"

October 21, Thursday 6:00pm at the Harn

Toby Jurovics, Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

"The Old Topographics: Survey Photography and the American West."

October 27, Wednesday,  6:00pm at the Harn

Eleanor Heartney, Art Critic and contributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress

"Art Today: Tales of Plastic Surgery, Genetically Altered Rabbits and Other Acts of Art"

November 9, Tuesday, 6:00pm at the Harn

Jenny F. So, Professor of Fine Arts, Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

“Archaic Bronze Inscriptions: Ancestors, Clans, History, & Commerce”

November 16, Tuesday, 6:00pm at the Harn

Lucy Lippard, Art critic and Independent  Curator

"Serene and Not So Serene Republics: Some Contemporary Native Art"

January 20, Thursday, 6:00 pm at the Harn

Judy Keller, Acting Director of Photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum

“The Cuban Project: Walker Evans to Now”

February 21, Monday, TBA

Thomas Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art, Harvard University

Title: TBA

February 24, Thursday  6:00 pm at the Harn

Ruth Phillips, Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture and a Professor of Art History, Carleton University

"A Primitive Effect on the Pictures:" Norval Morrisseau and the Global Emergence of Indigenous Modernism"

March 17,Thursday, 6:00 pm at the Harn

Bernhard Gardi, Independent Scholar and Former Curator of the African Department at the Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland

The Art of West African Textiles: Technology and Aesthetics, a Historical Approach

March 24, Thursday, 6:00pm at the Harn

Peter C. Sturman, Professor of Chinese Art, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Falling Blossoms: Shen Zhou (1427–1509) and the Problem of Growing Old”