Past Events: Department of Art History - Northwestern University

Past Events

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...

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...

Oct

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2023

Medieval Colloquium: Karl Whittington (Ohio State)

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by English Department

More information forthcoming.

Nov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2021

Faculty Workshop

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History

Faculty Workshop

Apr

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

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

2021

Faculty Workshop

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History

Faculty Workshop

Mar

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

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

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

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

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

2021

Faculty Workshop

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Art History

Faculty Workshop

Feb

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

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

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

2021