Thursday, September 30, 5:00 - 6:20pm
Keynote Lecture
What do Portraits Want? What Do People Want When They Call Images "Portraits"? - Marion Meyer, University of Vienna, Department of Classical Archaeology
The Department of Classics will host a reception after the lecture.
Friday, October 1, 9:30am - 5:00pm
9:30 - 10:00am: Coffee & Pastries
A small set of obsidian slabs have been recovered from the houses of Roman Pompeii. There, panels of a dark stone were included in black painted walls and surrounded by painted frames as ‘mirrors. ’This lecture explores the function and meaning of obsidian mirrors in light of Roman discourse on matters and their qualities, both physical and ethical.
We invite you to join the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago for this upcoming lecture as part of the 2021-22 Smart Lecture series. The lecture is Thursday, May 26 at 5:00pm CT with a Q&A session and reception to follow. This event will take place in CWAC 157 with a simultaneous live stream over zoom. If you plan to attend remotely, please register for the zoom meeting here.
In the academic year 2020-21 when Gold-Gorvy Traveling Seminars in the Department of Art History were temporarily suspended due to COVID-19, the Visual Resources Center took the chance to review photographs from the past traveling seminars to better support future ones. The VRC hired and trained graduate student Yifan ZOU as the Research Associate to oversee the project to process photographs from three past Gold-Gorvy Traveling Seminars: