HAA Guest Lecture Series

Jeff De Blois, Elisa Germán, and Erin McKellar- Coordinators

Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 5:30PM
S. Rebecca Martin, Boston University
“Who was ‘Doros’?  Hellenic Imagery, Phoenician Identity, and Roman Soldiers in the Middle Ground”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 5:30PM
Ben Weiss, Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Visual Culture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“The Postcard Age: Postcards and History at an Art Museum”
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Morse Study Room
Enter via the MFA’s Huntington Avenue entrance. The Morse Study Room is located on the first floor of the Museum, near the Lower Rotunda. Please ring the doorbell to gain entry.
Note: This event will include a lecture at 5:30PM followed by an informal walkthrough in the Torf Gallery at about 6:15PM.
Please RSVP to emckel@bu.edu if you wish to attend the lecture portion, as space is limited to 25 attendees. Space is not limited for the gallery portion. 

Monday, December 3, 2012, 5:30PM
Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Nottingham
“Imaging Slavery”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Thursday, January 24, 2013, 6:00PM
Judith Bookbinder, Boston College
“Civil War Drawings: Artifacts and Art”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Thursday, February 28, 2013, 5:30PM
Sonja Duempelmann, Harvard Graduate School of Design
“Flights of Imagination: Powered Aviation and the Art and Science of Landscape Design and Planning”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 5:30PM
Professor Pamela Karimi, Assistant Professor of Art History. UMASS Dartmouth
Topic: A History of Modern Iran in Ten Objects
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 5:30PM
Nancy Stieber, University of Massachusetts Boston
“Narrating History and Urban Identity: Amsterdam’s Visual Representation around 1900”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Lynne Cooney and Naomi Slipp,  Coordinators

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 5:30PM
Keith Morgan, Boston University
“Managing the Model Suburb: Professionalism, Class, Ethnicity, and the Making of Brookline, Massachusetts”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, September 28, 2011, 5:30PM
Kate MacNamara
Directory, Boston University Art Gallery
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 5:30PM
Rosamond Purcell
“Things are Not as They Seem: A Lecture In Honor of Robert Seydel”
Practicing Artist
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room CAS 303a

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 5:30PM
Michael K. Komanecky
“Picturing Ramona: Illustrations to Helen Hunt Jackson’s Novel of California”
Farnsworth Art Museum
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room CAS 303a

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 5:30PM
Pieranna Cavalchini,
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room CAS 200

Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 5:30PM
Peter Probst
Tufts University
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room CAS 303a

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5:30PM
Sura Levine
Hampshire College
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room CAS 303a

Thursday, April 26, 2012, 5:30PM
Ross Barrett
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room CAS 303A

Jackie Canevari & Rachel Tolano, Coordinators

Thursday, September 30, 2010, 5:30PM
Deborah Kahn
Associate Professor, Boston University
“Demons in the Romanesque: A Case Study”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, October 28, 2010, 5:30PM
Erica Hirshler
Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings, MFA
“Sargent’s Daughters: A Biography of a Painting”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Friday, November 19, 2010, 5:30PM
Mario Ontiveros
Assistant Professor, UMass
“Semi-Solid: Impermanence, Uncertainty, and Chicana/o Aesthetics”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room CAS 132

Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 6:00PM
Michele Cohen
Assistant Professor, Simmons
Director, Trustman Art Gallery
“Public Art for Public Schools”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 5:30PM
Adriana Zavala
Tufts University
“Becoming Modern Becoming Tradition”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Monday, February 14, 2011, 5:30PM
Pamela Allara
Brandeis University
“Repositioning: White South African Artists in the ‘New’ South Africa”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, March 24, 2011, 5:30PM
Francesca Bewer
Harvard Art Museum
“Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Art Conservation in America
(CA. 1900-1950)”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5:30PM
Caroline Bruzelius
Duke University
“What Can Digital Visualization Do For the Humanities
(and Especially Art History)?”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 5:30PM
Judy Ditner
Boston University
“10,000 Lives, The 8th Gwangju Biennale”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, April 21, 2011, 5:30PM
David Haney
University of Kent/CREAte
“LeBrecht Megge and the Problem of Modern vs. Conservative in Early 20th Century Landscape Architecture”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Sarah Parrish & Hannah Blunt, Coordinators

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

Thursday, JANUARY 21, 2010, 5:30PM
Véronique Plesch
Professor of Art, Colby College
“Early Modern Graffiti on Religious Frescoes: Vandalism or Piety?”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Thursday, FEBRUARY 11, 2010, 5:30PM
Nick Capasso
Senior Curator, DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum
“How to Spend $1 Million on Contemporary Sculpture”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Thursday, FEBRUARY 25, 2010, 5:30PM
Dietrich Neumann
Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
“A Skyscraper for Mussolini: Mario Palanti and Urban Planning for Rome in the 1920s”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Thursday, MARCH 25, 2010, 5:30PM
Jodi Cranston
Associate Professor, Boston University
“Close Looking in Titian’s Later Paintings”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Thursday, APRIL, 2010, 5:30PM
Nancy Berliner
Curator of Chinese Art, Peabody Essex Museum
“Hidden Treasures from the Forbidden City, The Emperor’s Private Paradise”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303A

Lili Mugnier, Coordinator

Thursday, September 18, 2008, 5:30PM
Alan Chong, Curator of the Collection, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
” A Conversation with Alan Chong, Conceptualizing Exhibitions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, October 16, 2008, 5:30PM
Lawrence Berman, Norma Jean Calderwood Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Inside Art & Empire: A Look at Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, November 6, 2008, 5:30PM
Gregory Williams, Assistant Professor, Boston University
“Jokes, Wit and Political Agency in West German Art, 1961-1989”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5:30PM
Peter Kalb, Assistant Professor, Brandeis University
“The Sensations of Televisuality: Tom Sachs Logjam as Case Study”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, January 29, 2009, 5:30PM
Tony Sigel, Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Strauss Center for Conservation, Harvard Art Museum
“Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Terracotta Sculpture: Conception, Execution, Authorship, Conservation”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, March 26, 2009, 5:30PM
Stephen Perkinson, Associate Professor, Bowdoin College
“About Face: The Prehistory of Portraiture in Medieval France”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 303

Thursday, April 2, 2009, 5:30PM
Mercedes Volait, Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Director of INVISU, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris
“Other Modernisms: Architecture in Egypt 1870s-1940s”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, April 16, 2009, 5:30PM
Cynthia Becker, Associate Professor, Boston University
“Art, Self-Censorship, and Public Discourse: Contemporary Moroccan Artists at the Crossroads”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Each Guest Lecture lasts approximately one hour and is followed by a brief Q&A session and a reception.

Lana Sloutsky & Sandrine Lacorie, Coordinators

Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 5:30PM
John M. Russell, Professor of Art History, Massachusetts College of Art
“The Current State of Cultural Heritage in Iraq.”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, October 25, 2007, 5:30PM
Shirin Fozi, Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University
“A Mere Patch of Color: The Shattered Glass of Rheims Cathedral.”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 5:30PM
Emine Fetvaci, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art, Boston University
“The Prince and the Eunuch: An Account of the Ottoman Imperial Circumcision Festival of 1582.”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 5:30PM
Tracey Albainy, Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800-1815.”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, January 31st, 5:30PM
Paolo Scrivano, Assistant Professor of Art History, Boston University
“Those Kitchens We Cannot Have’: Dreams of America in Italy’s Postwar Household Environment.”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, February 28th, 5:30PM
Monica McTighe, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art, Tufts University
“Retro Visions: Nostalgia in Recent Video Installations.”
Location: 775 Commonwealth Avenue, the George Sherman Union, Room 310

Tuesday, March 18th, 5:30PM
Ronni Baer, Mrs. Russell W. Baker Secior Curator of Paintings, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Curating, “El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Phillip III” exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts.”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, April 10, 5:30PM
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Professor Emerita of Japanese Art History, Boston University
“Blue and White Ceramics: A Silk Road Story.”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

Thursday, May 1, 5:30PM
Alice Tseng, Assistant Professor of Japanese Art and Architecture, Boston University
“A Meditation of Interpretive Methods for Architectural History, or ‘How to Talk About Buildings You Haven’t Seen.”
Location: 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200

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”

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”

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.

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.’

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’