Department of Art History

The Smart Lecture series is supported by the Smart Family Foundation, which brings scholars from around the globe to give lectures at the Department of Art History.

Joshua I. Cohen: "Toward a Global Framework for Modern African Art History"

Jeffrey Moser: "Making Mountains in Medieval China"

Margaret Graves: "The Poetics of Absence: Technologies of Impress and the Limits of Art History"

Jennifer Pruitt: "Inheriting an Invented Tradition: Islamic Art in the Arabian Peninsula"

Aaron Glass: “Reassembling The Social Organization: Franz Boas, Indigenous Ontologies, and the Anthropology of Art"

Lynne Cooke: "Woven Histories: A Curatorial Optics"

Jennifer Nelson: "The Dream of East Meets West Haunts the Boxer Codex"

Ginger Nolan: "Racial Mediapolitics: Aspen, Africa, and the Environmental Surround, 1943-1970"

Yael Rice: "Alimentation, Materiality, and the Ethical Self in an Illustrated Recipe Book from Central India, circa-1500"

Susan Huang: "Elite Uighurs and the Buddhist Book Roads under Mongol Rule"

Anna Anguissola: "The Materials of Light: Black Walls and Mirrors in the House of Pompeii"

Nicola Suthor: "'Engrammatic' Lines: On Asmus Jacob Carstens' contour drawings and the aesthetics of Neoclassicalism"

Ananda Cohen-Aponte: "Visual Repertoires of Resistance and Counterinsurgency in the Eighteenth-Century Andes"

Lianming Wang: "Transoceanic Trade Repictured: Coromandel Lacquer Screen and the Mobile Image in Global Exchange"

Anna Blume: "On the Study of Archaic Native North American Bannerstones"

Anneka Lenssen: "The Developing Surface: Abstraction in Syria, Algeria, and Morocco circa 1965"

Jennifer L. Roberts: "Printing on Air: Rauschenberg’s Hoarfrosts and the Paradox of Print"

Lia Markey: "The Nova Reperta and the Renaissance Representation of Invention and Globalization"

Jenni Sorkin: "Between Abjection and the Object: Body Work in the 1990s"

Dipti Khera: "In the Mood for Art in India’s Eighteenth Century"

Daniel Bluestone: "Saving Wright's Robie House, 1957"

Kenneth Lapatin: "Rediscovering the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum"

Lisa Trever: "Moche Mural Art and the Pursuit of Archaeo Art History"

Robin Schuldenfrei & T'ai Smith on Bauhaus100