Jun
7
2024
Art History Undergraduate Reception
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
This is a celebratory reception honoring our graduating majors and minors. Remarks will begin at 12:30 pm. Please RSVP by...
Past Events
Jun
1
2024
Keyman 2024 Annual Conference: Looking Turk-ish: A Modern Identity Reframed DAY 2
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program convenes a conference around a chosen theme. This year's conference will be...
May
31
2024
Keyman 2024 Annual Conference: Looking Turk-ish: A Modern Identity Reframed DAY 1
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program convenes a conference around a chosen theme. This year's conference will be...
May
22
2024
Warnock Lecture Series: Rita Lucarelli (University of California, Berkeley): "Doorscapes and Guardians of the Underworld: a comparative visual approach to the imagery of the ancient Egyptian and Etruscan demons"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Spring 2024 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History "Doorscapes and Guardians of the Underworld: a comparative visual approach...
May
13
2024
Art History Senior Honors Thesis Symposium
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Join us as our six senior honors thesis writers present their thesis projects. This event is open to members of...
May
2
2024
Aesthetics and Politics: A Spring Reception for the Warnock Publication Fund in Art History
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Join us at this Spring Reception, where we will be celebrating new books by Faye Gleisser (PhD 2016), Christina Kiaer,...
Apr
25
2024
Keynote Lecture: Carolina López-Ruiz (University of Chicago), “Phoenicians and the Making of a New Mediterranean”
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
In the early first millennium BCE, the Phoenicians connected the extremes of the Mediterranean, establishing networks of trade and settlement...
Apr
17
2024
Spring Department Colloquium
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Featuring Antawan Byrd ("Listening Out: Sound Politics and Decolonization in the Photography of Seydou Keïta") and Kenzie Stupica ("Pedagogy’s Network:...
Apr
8
2024
Myers Symposium Keynote: Tim Barringer (Yale University), "Art/Music/Empire/War: London and India 1910-14"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Part of the Myers Symposium, "Objects, Histories, Archives: The Late Mughal Empire and Britain’s Company-Raj 1707-1911.” Public presentation and Q&A: 5-6:30...
Apr
4
2024
Christianna Bonin (American University of Sharjah): "To Paint a Cloud: Imagining Mongolian Art After Empire"
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Dr. Christianna Bonin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the College of Architecture, Art...
Feb
15
2024
CAA Distinguished Scholar Session honoring Emerita S. Hollis Clayson
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The Distinguished Scholar session at the 112th CAA Annual Conference will honor the acclaimed career of S. Hollis Clayson. This event...
Feb
13
2024
Warnock Lecture Series: Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan), "Islamic Images of the Prophet Muhammad Today: Pietistic Superscripts, Motions to Dismiss, and Mocking @IslamistAgendas"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Winter 2024 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History Lecture: 5–6:30pm Public Reception: 6:30–7:30pm Devotional depictions of the Prophet Muhammad made...
Jan
16
2024
LACS | The White Cube and the Handmade at the São Paulo Biennial: Presenting Peruvian Artes Populares as Contemporary Art
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LACS welcomes Dr. Harper Montgomery of Hunter College, Art and Art History. Related to her current research on the ascent...
Oct
18
2023
Warnock Lecture Series: Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Mapping the Ephemeral: Decolonizing Durational Imagination"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Fall 2023 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History Lecture: 5–6:30pm Reception: 6:30–7:30pm This lecture is an invitation to reimagine the...
May
17
2023
Warnock Lecture Series: Michael Yonan (University of California Davis), "The Bavarian Rococo, the Outlier of Eighteenth-Century Art"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Bavarian rococo art and architecture has long received both attention and derision from art historians. It is incredibly sophisticated in...
May
15
2023
MENA Mondays: FACULTY COLLOQUIUM , Thadeus Dowad | Ottoman Portraiture between Revolution and Empire: Kapıdağlı Paints Selim III
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This faculty colloquium will be a manuscript workshop for an upcoming article adapted from a chapter of Thadeus Dowad's dissertation,...
May
9
2023
Northwestern Art Review Career Panel
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
We're all sick of being asked what we plan to do with our Art History degree. Join us for a...
Feb
8
2023
Warnock Lecture Series: Emine Fetvaci (Boston College), "The Wonder of Paper Joinery at the Ottoman Court"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
This talk will examine a stunning example of paper cutting and joining prepared by the Ottoman courtier, album maker, and...
Feb
7
2023
My Electric Genealogy - Sarah Kanouse
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Part storytelling, part lecture, and part live documentary film, Sarah Kanouse’s solo performance My Electric Genealogy explores the shifting cultures...
Jan
26
2023
Hollyamber Kennedy (ETH Zurich), "To Unearth and To Trace, To Bury and To Banish: Coloniality in Modernity's Built Environments"
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Join Hollyamber Kennedy (Postdoctoral Fellow and Guest Lecturer and at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta)...
Jan
24
2023
The 19th Century Series: Modernizing the Gaze: a view from the Prado, a Talk by Eugenia Afinoguénova, Marquette University
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The intellectual children of modernity, Europe's national art museums were designed to raise their nations' prestige, improve the trade, and...
Jan
23
2023
Mimi Cheng (Freie Universität Berlin), "China on the Horizon: Art, Science, and Cartographies of Empire"
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Join Mimi Cheng (Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin) for her talk "China on the Horizon: Art, Science, and...
Jan
12
2023
Medieval Colloquium: Karl Whittington (Ohio State)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
More information forthcoming.
Nov
14
2022
MENA Mondays: Graduate Student Colloquium
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Nov
9
2022
[Online] Artist Talk: Samia Halaby
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Join Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s exhibition artist Samia Halaby for an online talk exploring her groundbreaking...
Nov
3
2022
Nina Dubin (University of Illinois Chicago): Eros, Inc.: Cupid, Capital, and the Crash of 1720
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Amidst the world’s first international bubble economy, French artists enlisted Cupid, the most notoriously volatile of deities, to embody both...
Oct
29
2022
Myers Foundations Symposium, "Never Not in Crisis" Workshop & Keynote Lab
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
How do we come together in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? What forms of literature, music, theory, & visual...
Oct
29
2022
Myers Foundations Symposium, "Never Not in Crisis" Performance 2
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
How do we come together in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? What forms of literature, music, theory, & visual...
Oct
27
2022
Myers Foundations Symposium, "Never Not in Crisis" Panels
1:30 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
How do we come together in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? What forms of literature, music, theory, & visual...
Oct
27
2022
Myers Foundations Symposium, "Never Not in Crisis" Performance 1
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
How do we come together in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? What forms of literature, music, theory, & visual...
Oct
26
2022
Myers Foundations Symposium, "Never Not in Crisis" Reception
6:00 PM - 8:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
How do we come together in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? What forms of literature, music, theory, & visual...
Oct
19
2022
Warnock Lecture Series: Drew Thompson (Bard Graduate Center), "Coloring Black Surveillance"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The history of Polaroid films and cameras in Africa and the Black Diaspora is largely untold. To tell this story,...
Oct
18
2022
Fall Book Forum: Jesús Escobar
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please join us for the first meeting of the 2022-2023 academic year for a forum on LACS faculty affiliate Jesús...
Oct
14
2022
Irene Romano (University of Arizona): Exhibiting Classical Antiquity during the Nazi Era
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Much has been written about the interest in Greek and Roman antiquity and its appropriation under National Socialism, but among...
Oct
11
2022
Myers Foundations Symposium, "Never Not in Crisis" Performance
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
How do we come together in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? What forms of literature, music, theory, & visual...
Jun
6
2022
Inventing Indigenism: Francisco Laso’s Image of Modern Peru: A conversation with Natalia Majluf (University of Chicago)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Natalia Majluf (University of Chicago), is an independent curator and art historian. Majluf was a Head Curator and later Director...
May
26
2022
Medieval Colloquium: Shirin Fozi
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Join the Medieval Colloquim for a talk by Shirin Fozi (Department of Art History, University of Pittsburgh), author of Romanesque Tomb...
May
18
2022
Warnock Lecture Series: Sarah Lopez (The University of Texas at Austin), “Architectural History as Migrant History: The Development of a Binational Construction Industry from Below”
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Architectural History as Migrant History tracks the development over the last fifty years of a binational construction industry that has...
May
12
2022
Lecture: Masculinity, Politics, and Postwar Germanophone Literatures and Visual Culture
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Colloquium: Masculinity, Politics, and Postwar Germanophone Literatures and Visual Culture Featuring Sophie Salvo (University of Chicago) panel: Xan Holt, Thomas Love,...
May
2
2022
Emergence Curators Conversation
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
In conjunction with EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center, the current exhibition at the South Side Community Art Center, the exhibition's...
Apr
21
2022
Myers Foundations Lecture: Melissa Kerin in conversation with Catherine Becker, "Coming and Going: Marble Sculpture in the Creation and Memorialization of Lives in the Western Himalaya and the US"
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
In her presentation, Melissa Kerin, Associate Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University, will examine how her specific...
Feb
23
2022
Warnock Lecture Series: Michele Marincola (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), "Objects of Memory, Monuments to Trauma: Conservation and Preservation Issues"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The “objects of conservation” – the cultural heritage we privilege with acts of conservation and preservation – have expanded well...
Dec
2
2021
A Conversation with Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Maite Borjabad
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
TBA
Nov
10
2021
Department Lecture: Aaron Hyman (Johns Hopkins University), "On Feathers and Facades, or Seeing Script in Sixteenth-Century New Spain"
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Spain’s transoceanic empire ran on paperwork. There were mountains of bureaucratic record keeping to be sure; but musical scores, missives,...
Oct
8
2021
Classics Fletcher Lecture Series: Dr. Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky)
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Shepherds and Heroes: Myth and Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica: Although products of a different time and place, the ancient...
Sep
22
2021
Department of Art History Welcome Social for Graduate Students
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The department is hosting our annual Welcome Social in Evanston at a restaurant on Wednesday, September 22, 4:30 to 6...
Sep
2
2021
Academic Directions Fair 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
This year’s Academic Directions Fair for incoming students will be virtual. The Department of Art History presentation is on September...