multi-day
Elemental Forces, an international symposium
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Please join us on May 7 and 8 for Elemental Forces, an international symposium jointly sponsored by NU Art History's...
Past Events
multi-day
Elemental Forces, an international symposium
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Please join us on May 7 and 8 for Elemental Forces, an international symposium jointly sponsored by NU Art History's...
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...
Jun
13
2021
Undergraduate Graduation Reception
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Undergraduate Graduation Reception on Sunday, June 13, 2-3:30 pm More information to follow including in-person location and Zoom link for online...
Jun
4
2021
Department of Art History End-of-Year Event
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The department is hosting our annual End-of-Year event in Evanston at a restaurant on Friday, June 4, noon to 1:30...
Jun
3
2021
Department of Art History Honors Celebration
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Students will present their theses to the department. The presentations include: Rory Kahiya Tsapayi "The Right to See Knows No Obstacle:...
Jun
2
2021
Department of Art History Department Meeting
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
May
28
2021
Global Antiquities Lecture: Ann Gunter
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Global Antiquities is delighted to present Ann Gunter (Professor of Art History, Classics, and in the Humanities), "A Culture of...
May
27
2021
Jeremiah S. and Helen James Lecture in Assyrian Civilization and Culture - Professor Michael Rakowitz
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
The 2021 Jeremiah S. and Helen James Lecture in Assyrian Civilization and Culture will be delivered by Northwestern Professor and...
May
26
2021
Department of Art History Colloquium with Hannah Feldman and Thadeus Dowad
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The Department Colloquium with Hannah Feldman and Thadeus Dowad is on Wednesday, May 26, 10:30-11:45 am CT on Zoom. Please RSVP...
May
19
2021
Warnock Lecture Series: Jennifer Trimble (Stanford University)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Interactions of Slavery and Visual Culture in Ancient Rome Northwestern University Department of Art History presents the Warnock Lecture Series This lecture...
May
15
2021
A Practicum for Digging a Grave with Mel Keiser
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
This will be a live, in-person event. • Public welcome to attend and observe! • To participate as a digger, RSVP to...
May
12
2021
Department of Art History Department Meeting
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
May
3
2021
Grant Writing Workshop with Stephen Hill (Office of Fellowships)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The Grant Writing Workshop with Stephen Hill (Office of Fellowships) is scheduled for Monday, May 3, 10-11 AM. Please email art-history@northwestern.edu...
Apr
21
2021
Apr
7
2021
Department of Art History Department Meeting
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
Mar
19
2021
Graduate Student Town Hall
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Town Hall for Graduate Students on Friday from 3:15-4:15 pm Please join the Town Hall with Rob and Hannah. Please email...
Mar
10
2021
Mar
8
2021
Dialogue with Kamran Heidari, Director of the Documentary Film Dingomaro: Iran’s Black South
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Registration is required for this event: bit.ly/dingomaro Please join the MENA Graduate Student Group for this dialogue with the Iranian filmmaker Kamran...
Mar
3
2021
Department of Art History Department Meeting
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
Feb
28
2021
Rebecca Zorach, "Abolition Art," Feb 28, 2 PM CT, Online
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Evanston Art Center “In Focus” Lecture Series presents “Abolition Art” by Rebecca Zorach (virtual lecture) on Sunday, February 28, 2021...
Feb
24
2021
Warnock Lecture Series: Mabel Wilson (Columbia University)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Northwestern University Department of Art History presents the Warnock Lecture Series. "Slavery, Dispossession and the Building of the Smithsonian" This talk probes...
Feb
10
2021
Talk: Meida Teresa McNeal (Honey Pot Performance)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
"Dreaming a People-First City: Performing Fifth City’s Lessons in Imagination, Scale, & Consensus Building" Fifth City Revisited explores the history of...
Feb
10
2021
Feb
3
2021
Department of Art History Department Meeting
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
Feb
1
2021
Department of Art History Colloquium with Stephen Eisenman and Talia Shabtay
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The Department Colloquium with Stephen Eisenman, “Francis Bacon: The Animal That is Not One,” and Talia Shabtay, "'So That We...
Jan
27
2021
Department Lecture: Charles Davis II (University at Buffalo)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
“The Shifting Notions of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Architecture Debates" In the past, architectural historians have been quick to interpret...
Jan
14
2021
Winter Social
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Please save the date for Thursday, January 14th at 5:15 PM for the online Winter Social.
Jan
13
2021
Jan
6
2021
Department of Art History Department Meeting
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
Dec
17
2020
December 17, 2020, 4:00pm-5:30pm: Critical/Creative Studies: Suzette Marie Martin
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The CoVid-19: Critical/Creative Studies in Music, Image, and Text autumn virtual seminar series concludes on Thursday, December 17, 4pm CST...
Dec
8
2020
Itinerant Objects: Early Modern Mobility and the Spaces In Between
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Elizabeth Rodini will present Itinerant Objects: Early Modern Mobility and the Spaces In Between on Tuesday, December 8th at 4...
Dec
8
2020
LACS Faculty Colloquium: Architectural Migration in the Early Modern Spanish Habsburg World (Jesús Escobar)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Jesús Escobar is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern and a specialist in the architecture and...
Dec
3
2020
There and Back Again: Tracking Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
On Thursday, December 3rd at 4 PM CT, Elizabeth Rodini will present There and Back Again: Tracking Gentile Bellini’s Portrait...
Dec
2
2020
Department of Art History Department Meeting
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
Nov
20
2020
Graduate Student Workshop
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Graduate Student Workshop on Friday, November 20 from 2-4pm
Nov
16
2020
"Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power" - Pre-publication book workshop with Sampada Aranke
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
The Critical Theory Cluster and Black Arts Consortium presents a graduate workshop on new writing: Join us for a pre-publication book...
Nov
13
2020
Graduate Student Workshop
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Graduate Student Workshop on Friday, November 13 from 2-4pm
Nov
12
2020
Nov 12 2020, 4:00pm-5:30pm: Critical/Creative Studies: Varia Serova
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The CoVid-19: Critical/Creative Studies in Music, Image, and Text virtual seminar series continues on Thursday, November 12, 4pm CST /...
Nov
11
2020
Nov
6
2020
Black Arts Chicago: The Forgotten Story - A Symposium
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by School of Communication
Speakers: Kemi Adeyemi | Theaster Gates | Tempestt Hazel | Maséqua Myers Moderated by Melanie Chambliss (Columbia College Chicago) Please join the Northwestern...
Nov
6
2020
Newberry Scholarly Seminar with Christina Normore and Elina Gertsman (Case Western Reserve University)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Friday, November 6, 2020 2-4 pm CDT Virtual Seminar via Zoom, Register for Link CENTER FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES PROGRAMS SEMINAR IN EUROPEAN ART Nothing is...
Nov
4
2020
Department of Art History Department Meeting
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
Oct
30
2020
Department of Art History Colloquium with Alicia Caticha and Athi Mongezeleli Joja
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The Department Colloquium with Alicia Caticha and Athi Mongezeleli Joja is on October 30th at 1:30 pm.
Oct
21
2020
Faculty Workshop with Mel
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Faculty Workshop
Oct
15
2020
Tiara Roxanne and Risa Puleo to Creative/Critical Studies
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The CoVid-19: Critical/Creative Studies in Music, Image, and Text virtual seminar series continues with a performance featuring the indigenous cyberfeminst,...
Oct
15
2020
Liberating History: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Online screening of THREE DISAPPEARANCES followed by a pre-recorded discussion between filmmaker Rania Stephan and Dr. Hannah Feldman THE THREE DISAPPEARANCES...
Oct
14
2020
Oct
7
2020
Department of Art History Department Meeting
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Department Meeting
Oct
2
2020
Professional Practices (Job Market and Grant Applications) with C.C. McKee (Bryn Mawr) and Professor Feldman
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Professional Practices (Job Market and Grant Applications) with C.C. McKee (Bryn Mawr) and Prof. Feldman
Oct
1
2020
Susannah Cahalan, Lisa Mendelman, and Dominic Sisti to Critical/Creative Studies Oct 1, 4pm CDT
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The CoVid-19: Critical/Creative Studies in Music, Image, and Text virtual seminar series returns for "Mental Health and Medical Ethics in...
Sep
30
2020
Department of Art History Faculty Meeting
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Department of Art History Faculty Meeting
Sep
28
2020
Support the 41: Iranian Student Activism in Northern California, 1970-1971 (Ida Yalzadeh)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Chabraja Center for...
Sep
25
2020
Graduate Student Town Hall with Chair, DGS and Department Assistant
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Town Hall for Graduate Students on Friday, September 25, from 3-5pm Please join the Town Hall with Rob, Hannah and Mel....
Sep
17
2020
Remote Department of Art History Fall Welcome Social
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Come meet the guests of honor, our four new graduate students, and reconnect with colleagues and friends.
Sep
2
2020
Virtual Academic Directions Fair-Art History Information Session
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The Department of Art History is hosting two Q & A sessions with the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Christina...
Sep
2
2020
Virtual Academic Directions Fair- Art History Information Session
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History
The Department of Art History is hosting two Q & A sessions with the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Christina...
Sep
1
2020
The American Library in Paris presents Professor Clayson, Sept. 1, 12:30 PM, Evening with an Author series, Zoom event
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
This fall, the American Library in Paris' Evening with an Author series will meet virtually, via Zoom. Hollis Clayson will be speaking...
Jul
23
2020
"CoVid-19: Critical/Creative Studies in Music, Image, and Text"
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
CoVid-19: Critical/Creative Studies in Music, Image, and Text initiative supported by the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Northwestern...
Jun
19
2020
Department of Art History, "Celebrating the Graduates"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Virtual celebration for the graduating seniors of the Department of Art History on June 19 at 4 PM CDT with...