Susan Huntington, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University will present her lecture The Early Buddhist Art of India and the Emperor’s New Clothes on Friday, April 5, 2013 at 2:00pm.
Susan Huntington is a specialist in the art of South Asia, her main publications include The Art of Ancient India, The Pala-Sena Schools of Sculpture, and Leaves From the Bodhi Tree.
Buford House, 922 W. Franklin St.
Seminar Room 202
James Oles, Wellesley College Senior Lecturer in Art will present his lecture Maya Pyramids on American Walls: Revivals, Restorations, Reinventions.
Friday, March 29, 2013 at 2:00pm
Buford House, 922 W. Franklin St.
Seminar Room 202
Lev Manovich, Professor at CUNY Graduae Center will present his lecture How to Compare One Million Images? Visualizing Patterns in Art, Games,
Comics, Cinema, Web, Print, and User-Generated Content on April 26th. Lev is the author of Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media(The MIT Press, 2001) which is described as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” Lev Manovich is also Director of the Software Studies Initiative, and a Visiting Professor at European Graduate School (EGS).
April 26, 2013 at 2:00pm
University Student Commons, Theater
María de los Ángeles Jordano, Professor in the Department of the History of Art, Archaeology, and Music at the University of Córdoba, Spain will present her lecture The Royal Chapel in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba in which she will discuss the continuing vitality of Islamic art under Christian kings. She is the author of numerous publications on medieval Christian and Mudéjar art and architecture in Córdoba.
Friday, December 7, 2012 at 2:00pm
Buford House, 922 W. Franklin St.
Seminar Room 202
Dr. Diana Patch, Associate curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will talk about her experience curating the exhibition Dawn of Egyptian Art to students enrolled in Dr. Michael Schreffler’s Undergraduate Ancient Egyptian Art Seminar.
The Department’s new class of Ph.D. and M.A. students will attend a two-day event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, September 28-30. This event is a pair of study days in the Museum’s newly-opened galleries of Islamic art led by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, world-renowned historians of Islamic art and the holders of the Hamad bin Khalifa chair in Islamic art at VCU.
Dr. Brenda Trofanenko, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Education, Culture and Community at Arcadia University will present her lecture Knowing Death: Images of War in Museum Exhibitions to Graduate Students enrolled in Dr. Peggy Lindauer’s Museums & Communities course.
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 2:00pm
Buford House, 922 W. Franklin St.
Seminar Room 202
Dr. Fredrika Jacobs, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art History at VCU and author of Defining the Renaissance ‘Virtuosa’: Women Artists and the Language of Art History and Criticism and The Living Image in Renaissance Italy will be presenting her lecture, Shared Experience & Affective Impact: Votive Images, Donation and War. Dr. Jacobs taught at VCU for thirty-one years and has published in numberous scholarly journals and anthologies focused on issues of gender, Italian Renaissance culture and aesthetic theory. She recently completed Votive Panel Painting and Popular Piety in Early Modern Italy which will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 2:00pm
Buford House, 922 W. Franklin St.
Seminar Room 202
This lecture is free and open to the public
Dr. Christiane Paul, Professor of Visual Arts at The New School will be presenting her lecture, Media Art Histories.
Dr. Paul’s recent publications include Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond and Digital Art. This lecture is supported by The Departments of Art History, Kinetic Imaging and Media, Art & Text (MATX).
October 11, 2012 at 2:00pm
VCU Student Commons, VA Rooms
This lecture is free and open to the public
On Friday, September 14, VCU’s interdisciplinary doctoral program in Media Art & Text (MATX) will inaugurate its annual faculty lecture series, The Cornis-Pope Lecture in Media Art & Text. The series honors Dr. Marcel Cornis-Pope, professor of English, the program’s founding director and an internationally recognized scholar in literary theory and modern and postmodern literature.
Each year one faculty member affiliated with the program will be selected to present his or her interdisciplinary research to the wider University community. This year’s lecture is “Franz Kugler: Becoming an Art Historian ca. 1830″, delivered by the current MATX director, Dr. Eric Garberson, associate professor of Art History. Dr. Garberson’s research examines the early formation of art history as a modern discipline in Berlin in the first half of the nineteenth century.
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
The Cornis-Pope Lecture in Media Art & Text, 2012
“Franz Kugler: Becoming an Art Historian ca. 1830″
Dr. Eric Garberson, Director of Media Art & Text, Associate Professor of Art History
Friday, September 14, 2012, 3:00 p.m.
Scott House, 909 West Franklin Street
