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  • “Monumentality for the Masses”

    The Dean of the College and the Art History Program present a lecture  Ana Maria León Massachusetts institute of Technology This lecture examines a series of texts, images, and architectural projects produced in 1930s and 1940s Argentina, and how they participated in the intellectual, poetic, and spatial construction of the city of Buenos Aires as…

  • Building the Case: Design and Media at the International Military Tribunal, c. 1945

    The Dean of the College and the Art History Program present Olga Touloumi Harvard University During four short months in the summer of 1945, the Office of Strategic Services, IBM, and landscape architect Dan Kiley prepared Courtroom 600 for the Nuremberg Trials. Planned as a “world spectacle,” the project required a wide mobilization of resources and…

  • Nic Violett ’15 Gave a Paper

    Congratulations to Art History Major Nic Viollet! MEMORIA: CONSTRUCTIONS & INTERPRETATIONS The History of Art Students’ Association (HASA) at University of Toronto invited undergraduates to participate in its second annual History of Art conference March 6th-7th 2015. Through the conference,  the University aspired to have undergraduate art historians engage and explore their fields of interest…

  • Teju Cole has been awarded one of the 2015 Windham-Campbell Prize in fiction

    Congratulations Teju Cole!  http://news.yale.edu/2015/02/24/nine-writers-four-countries-awarded-150000-windham-campbell-prizes

  • “Producing the Prison: A Spatial History of Prisoners in Colonial India”

    Mira Rai Waits University of California, Santa Barbara “Producing the Prison: A Spatial History of Prisoners in Colonial India” Nineteenth- and twentieth- century histories of prisons in British India have followed three narratives. British imperial history presented prisons as exceptional infrastructural improvements essential to governance. In Indian nationalist history, prisons became synonymous with British rule and…

  • EXPERIMENTAL LECTURE

    Carolee Schneemann Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Bard College alumna, Class of 1959. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body.…

  • Modes of Transmission in Late Ottoman Architecture

    Peter Christensen Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Rochester will give a talk Modes of Transmission in Late Ottoman Architecture This talk will examine the nature of architectural culture and production within the late Ottoman empire. In its last century of existence, the Ottoman empire bore witness to both a rapid dissolution of its…

  • Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex: The Invention of Heterosexuality in Ancient Rome

  • Human Rights Lecture

    THE GROUP PHOTO AND THE”POLICY OF DISAPPEARANCE” IN STALIN’S RUSSIA The aim of this lecture is to analyze from the political and aesthetic perspective the phenomenon of the elimination of the “public enemies” from group photos in Russia during the Stalin era. The analysis has as its empirical starting point photographs we have discovered in…

  • Opportunity to Study Abroad

        Please be aware of an opportunity to study abroad in Cuzco, Peru this summer, credited through Southwestern University, a national liberal arts college. The deadline for applications at  the Office of Intercultural Learning is February 1.  Here are some highlights: Two 3-credit classes (6 credits total). The first cross-listed as Philosophy, Religion, and…

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