Lecture Series
Barkan Lectures
2025
The AI Heist: How the Tech Industry Exploits the History of Art & What We Can Do to Stop It
Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | 4:15pm
Tisch Library, Room 316
Medford Campus
Margaret Henderson Floyd Memorial Lectures
2025
Using Geometry to Rethink Three Gothic Chestnuts: Saint-Denis, Notre-Dame, and Chartres
Robert Bork, Professor, Iowa College of Art and Design, Gothic architecture and geometry in art
Monday, November 10, 2025 | 4:30pm
Tisch Library, room 304
Medford Campus
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Barkan Lecture Archive
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
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
Myth & Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the 19th Century
Katie Hornstein, Associate Professor, Dartmouth College
Thursday February 1, 2024 | 4:30pm
Fraught: On Sculpting Slavery and Freedom
Adrienne Childs, Independent curator & art historian, Senior Consulting Curator, The Phillips Collection
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 5:30pm
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
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
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
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
Margaret Henderson Floyd Lecture Archive
A Decent Home" Everyone Deserves - Film Presentation and Discussion
Sara Terry, Filmmaker
Thursday, October 10, 2024 | 5:00pm
Alsar Atelier
Alejandro Saldarriaga Rubio
Thursday, November 2, 2023 | 5:30pm
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"Go Outside"
Dong-Ping Wong, Founding Director Food New York
Thursday, March 2, 2023 | 5:30pm
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Building Castles on the Sea
Christy Anderson, Professor of Art History, University of Toronto
Thursday, February 20, 2020 | 6:00pm
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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
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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
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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
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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
Exhibiting Asco
Ondine Chavoya, Associate Professor of Art History and Latina/o Studies, Williams College
Monday, February 13, 2012 | 5:30-7:00pm