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Fall 2009
GSAHA LECTURE SERIES

Sarah Parrish & Hannah Blunt, Coordinators

Please join the Graduate Student Art History Association of Boston University for
these special events.
All lectures begin at 5:30 p.m. in CAS 200, 725 Commonwealth Avenue,
unless otherwise noted.

  • Thursday, September 24, 2009, 5:30PM
    Talinn Grigor
    Assistant Professor, Brandeis University
    "Backward-Looking Modernists: British-Indian Origins of the Persian Style"
    Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

  • Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 5:30PM
    Hilda Westervelt
    Assistant Professor of Art History, Boston University
    "Women's Work: The Threat of Female Toil in Greek Art and Myth"
    Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

  • Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 5:30PM
    Sharon Corwin
    Carolyn Muzzy Director and Chief Curator, Colby College Museum of Art
    "Constructed Documentary: Margaret Bourke-White from the Steel Mill to
    the South"
    Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

  • Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 5:30PM
    Adriana Zavala
    Associate Professor, Tufts University
    "Intimate Encounters: Mexican Modernism and the Female Nude"
    Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200
  • Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 5:30PM
    Helen Burnham
    Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    "Albrecht Dürer at the MFA"
    Meet in the Scharf Visitor’s Center at the MFA at 5:30 p.m.; our group will be escorted to the exhibition for a private tour and lecture.
    Admission is free on Wednesdays after 4:00 p.m



Past Lectures
2008/2009

Lili Mugnier, Coordinator


Past Lectures

2007/2008

Lana Sloutsky & Sandrine Lacorie, Coordinators

 

 


 

2006/2007

Ben Charland, Coordinator

  • Thursday, September 28, 2006, 5:30 pm
    Gianfranco Pocobene, Chief Conservator of Paintings, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
    “Conserving the John La Farge Murals of Trinity Church”

  • Thursday, October 5, 2006, 5:30 pm
    Catherine D'Ignazio, Associate Professor of New Media, Rhode Island School of Design “On the Wisdom of Infinitely Small Things?”

  • Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 5:30 pm
    Patricia Johnston, Professor of Art History, Salem State University
    “Seeing High & Low: The Impact of the Visual Culture Movement on the History of American Art”

  • Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 5:30pm
    Jonathan Unglaub, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Brandeis University
    “Painting as Parthenogenesis: Raphael's Sistine Madonna”

  • Thursday, February 1, 2007, 5:30 pm
    Susan Dackerman, Curator of Prints, Fogg Art Museum
    “Dissent! Protest Art on Paper”

  • Thursday, February 22, 2007, 5:30 pm
    Eric Rosenberg, Professor of Art History, Tufts University
    “Walker Evans’s Depression and the Trauma of Photography”

  • Thursday, March 29, 2007, 5:30 pm
    Bill Arning, Curator, The MIT List Visual Arts Center
    “Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art”

  • Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 5:30 pm
    Alan Braddock, Assistant Professor, American Art and Visual Culture, Syracuse University
    “Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity”

 

2005/2006

Lisa Sutcliffe, Coordinator

  • 10/6: Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter, public sculptors, "Public Art: Sell Out? or the Last True Path for the Citizen Artist?"

  • 11/2: Georgia Barnhill, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts American Antiquarian Society, "'With a French Accent'--American Lithography, 1820-1860."

  • 11/10 at 5:15pm: Karen Kramer, Assistant Curator of Native American Art Peabody Essex Museum, on her show "All of My Life: Contemporary Works by Native American Artists."

  • 12/1 at 5:15:John Stomberg, Associate Director for Administration and Programs Williams College Museum of Art, "Suffering and Style in 1930s American Photography."

  • 2/16:David Kim, doctoral student, Harvard University "Gentile Bellini: Artist and Ambassador"

  • 03/01: Natasha Khandekar, Co-director, Art Interactive "Looking Closely: Using Physical Evidence in Art History"

  • 03/01: Natasha Khandekar, Co-director, Art Interactive "Looking Closely: Using Physical Evidence in Art History"

  • 04/10: Joanne Lukitsh, Professor, Massachusetts College of Art "Alone on the Sidewalks of New York: Alfred Stieglitz's Photography, 1892-1913" This talk is based on a chapter in an anthology,"Seeing High and Low Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture," edited by Patricia Johnston.

  • 04/10: Joanne Lukitsh, Professor, Massachusetts College of Art "Alone on the Sidewalks of New York: Alfred Stieglitz's Photography, 1892-1913" This talk is based on a chapter in an anthology,"Seeing High and Low Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture," edited by Patricia Johnston.

  • 04/27: Anna Stanfield, Ohr-O'Keeffe Museum, Biloxi, AL "Learning from Katrina: The Future of Disaster Planning in American Museums"


2004/2005

Carrie Moore, Coordinator

  • Keith Morgan, Art History Professor, Walking Tour of Trinity Church

  • Natasha Seaman, Boston University PhD Candidate, 'Embedded Devotion in Hendrick ter Bruggen's Crowning with Thorns'

  • Leslie Brown, Curator at the Photographic Resource Center, will discuss the upcoming 'Contemporary Vernacular' show at the PRC and give an introduction to the library.

  • Chris Atkins, Research Assistant, Arts of Europe, MFA Boston, 'Not So Fast: A Reconsideration of Frans Hals's 'Rough Manner'

  • Christine Poggi, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will present 'Representing Madness in 1905: Giacomo Balla's 'The Madwoman' and the Cycle 'The Living'

  • David Dearinger, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Boston Athenaeum, '19th Century American Neo-classic Sculpture and the City of Boston'

  • May Stevens, Artist, in conjunction with Professor Pat Hills 'Art and Politics' class

  • Arthur Beale, Head of Conservation, MFA, 'Defining Authenticity'

  • Lizzi Ross, Public Programs Manager, ICA, "Public Programming at the ICA."

  • Hilda Westervelt, Assistant Professor of Art History, Boston University. "Kainis' Choice: Avoidance of Marriage and Motherhood and its Consequences in Greek Myth"

  • Screening of Allan Shinohara's documentary about migrant Jamaican tobacco workers in western Massachusetts.

 

2003/2004

Melissa Renn, Coordinator

  • Dr Michael Stone-Richards, Visiting Professor in English Comparative Literature, Stonehill College, and Graham Foundation Scholar: Implantation and Affective Spaciality: Guy Debord with Daniel Libeskind

  • Bet McLeod, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Department of the Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will speak on the newly-installed 19th century gallery at the MFA and on issues of display, access, interpretation and the new directions the Museum is exploring for its new wing.

  • Anna Konivets, Coordinator of the Hermitage/Guggenheim Museum collaboration will speak on the Russian Festival/Education Bridge Project.

  • Anthony Lee, Professor, Department of Art History, Mount Holyoke College: 'When the Cobbling Began: Photography and Chinese Shoemakers in a 19th century New England Factory Town.'

  • Jonathan P. Ribner, Associate Professor, Art History Department, Boston University. Danger Across the Water:' Professor Ribner's Recent Research

  • Jonathan M. Bloom, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College. Paper Before Print: The Introduction of a New Medium and its Impact on the Arts of the Islamic Lands.

  • Margaret Laster (formerly of the MFA) on Nazi-era provenance research issues.

  • Bonnie Costello, Professor of English, Boston University, 'Planets on Tables: Poetry and Still Life'

  • Wanda Corn, Professor, Art History Department, Stanford University and Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard University, will speak on Georgia O'Keeffe and Seriality

  • Jessica Sewell, Assistant Professor, Art History Department and American and New England Studies Program, Boston University. 'Eclipsing the Boston Tea Party: Suffrage and Tea, the Equality Beverage.'


2002/2003

Kate Palmer, Coordinator

  • Keith Morgan, Professor of Art History at Boston University. Walking tour of Boston's Kenmore and Fenway areas

  • Ulrich Lehmann. 'Fetish of the Female: George Sand and Gavarni'

  • Karen Lucic, Professor of Art at Vassar College. 'The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist'

  • Michelle Lamunire, PhD Candidate in Art History, Boston University. 'You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe'

  • Keith Doherty, PhD Candidate in Art History, Boston University. 'Recent Discovery in the Athenian Agora'

  • Nick Capasso, Curator, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. 'Painting in Boston, 1950 - 2000: A Curatorial Case Study'

  • Alexandra Schwartz, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan. 'Learning from Los Angeles: Ruscha, Venturi, and Scott Brown'
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