Lecture Series

Barkan Lectures

Jacob Lawrence in Nigeria: Black Orpheus and the Mbari Club

Kimberli Gant, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum
Monday, April 10, 2023 | 5:30pm
Tisch Library, Room 304
Medford Campus

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The Matter of Families: Exhibiting African Art and Kinship in Dakar, 1966

Lauren Taylor, Assistant Professor, Art History, African Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Monday, October 31, 2022 | 5:30pm
Granoff Music Center, Room 155
20 Talbot Avenue
Medford Campus

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Secret Code, Lost Language, Nonsense, Or Hoax: The Voynich Manuscript’s Enduring Mysteries

Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director Medieval Academy of America
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | 5:30pm
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center
Medford Campus

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Margaret Henderson Floyd Memorial Lectures

Go Outside

"Go Outside"

Dong-Ping Wong, Founding Director Food New York
Thursday, March 2, 2023 | 5:30pm
Cohen Auditorium | Medford Campus
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Margaret Henderson Floyd Memorial Lecture Poster: Building Castles on the Sea

"Building Castles on the Sea"

Christy Anderson, Professor of Art History, University of Toronto
Thursday, February 20, 2020 | 6:00pm
Barnum Hall, Room 104 | Medford Campus
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Margaret Henderson Floyd Memorial Lecture Poster: A Century in the Making

A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Michelle Wilkinson, Museum Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Monday, March 27, 2017 | 5:30pm
Alumnae Lounge | 40 Talbot Avenue
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Margaret Henderson Floyd Memorial Lecture Poster: American Glamour: Architecture and Design in 1950's

American Glamour: Architecture and Design in the 1950s

Alice Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of the History of American Art and Architecture, Wellesley College
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 | 5:30pm
Tisch Library 304
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Margaret Henderson Floyd Memorial Lecture Poster: Humanizing Megascale

"Humanizing Megascale"

World-renowned Architect Moshe Sadfie
Monday, December 2, 2013 | 6:00pm
ASEAN Auditorium Cabot Center, 170 Packard Avenue
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Barkan Symposium

From Monument to Memorial: Space, Commemoration, and Representation in America Now

Keynote Address by Professor Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia GSAPP
Friday, March 29, 2019 | 9:00am-5:30pm
Aidekman Arts Center
40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155

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Desires for the Global

Caroline Jones, Professor of Art History in the History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture and Art Program, MIT
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 | 5:30pm
Tisch Library 304

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"Exhibiting Asco"

Ondine Chavoya, Associate Professor of Art History and Latina/o Studies, Williams College
Monday, February 13, 2012 | 5:30-7:00pm
Granoff Music Ctr., Rm 155
20 Talbot Avenue

Professor Chavoya will discuss his curatorial contribution to the exhibition "Asco: Elite of the Obscure," the first retrospective to present the work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco (1972-1987). Comprised of a tight-knit group of artists from East Los Angeles (Harry Gamboa Jr., Gronk, Willie Herrón and Patssi Valdez). Taking their name from the forceful Spanish word for disgust, Asco used performance, public art and multimedia to respond to social and political turbulence in Los Angeles and beyond.

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