Lecture Series
Gertrude, Her Psalter, and Her Sisters in Medieval Rus
Christian Raffensperger, Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities at Wittenberg University, as well as a professor and chair of the History Department
Thursday March 7, 2024 | 4:30pm
Tisch Library, room 304
Medford Campus
Barkan Lectures
Constructing Mercantile Identities through Material Religion in ancient West Asia
Nancy Highcock, Assistant Keeper, Jaleh Hearn Curator for Ancient Middle East, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Univ.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 4:30pm
Tisch Library, Room 304
Medford Campus
Myth & Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the 19th Century
Katie Hornstein, Associate Professor, Dartmouth College
Thursday February 1, 2024 | 4:30pm
Granoff Music Center, Room 155
Medford Campus
Fraught: On Sculpting Slavery and Freedom
Adrienne Childs, Independent curator & art historian, Senior Consulting Curator, The Phillips Collection
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 5:30pm
Granoff Music Center, Room 155
Medford Campus
What Does Art History Tell Us About the Shroud of Turin?
Andrew R. Casper, Professor of Art History at Miami University in Oxford, OH
Monday, October 23, 2023 | 5:30pm
Tisch Library, Room 304
Medford Campus
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
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
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
Margaret Henderson Floyd Memorial Lectures
"A Decent Home" Everyone Deserves - Film Presentation and Discussion
Sara Terry, Filmmaker
Thursday, October 10, 2024 | 5:00pm
Tisch Library, room 304, Medford Campus
"Alsar Atelier"
Alejandro Saldarriaga Rubio
Thursday, November 2, 2023 | 5:30pm
Tisch Library, room 304, Medford Campus
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"Go Outside"
Dong-Ping Wong, Founding Director Food New York
Thursday, March 2, 2023 | 5:30pm
Cohen Auditorium | Medford Campus
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"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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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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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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"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
"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.