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Spring 2025 Events

“From Colonial Science to Transnational Heritage? The Photographic Constellation of the Institut Français Afrique Noire”

CHARLOTTE BIGG, Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris. Friday, April 4, 3:00-5:00pm PST. SOS 250.

“Revolutionary Fashion Time”

ANNE HIGONNET, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History, Barnard College. Tuesday, April 22, 12:30-2:00pm PST. SOS 250.

Fall 2024 Events

Monday, September 23: Speculative Visions: Science Fiction and American Visual Culture

LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART Symposium. 9:30am-7:00pm PT. Fisher Gallery and DML 240.

Friday, October 4: Revisiting the Past

ANCA I. LASC Associate Professor, History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute. 3:00-5:00pm PT. SOS 250.

Spring 2024 Events

SIGRID WEIGEL

“Images of the A-Visible”

ADAM KUPER

“The Crisis of the Museum of Other People”

CONFERENCE: Monuments Fall: An East-West Exchange

PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE: Bill Deverell (USC), Catherine Gudis (UCR), Miloš Jovanović (UCLA), Wendy Salmond (Chapman University), Linda Kaljundi (Estonian Academy of Arts), Mischa Gabowitsch (University of Vienna), Sofia Dyak (Lviv Center for Urban History)

Fall 2023 Events

NOÉMIE ETIENNE

“Dioramas, Life-Casts, and the Lives of Sensitive Images: When Was This? And Did It Ever Happen?”

JEAN-FRANÇOIS STASZAK

“Bousbir, Casablanca’s Colonial Red Light District”

NORA A. TAYLOR

“Lenin’s Shadow in Hanoi and Other Responses to Monuments by Contemporary Vietnamese Artists in the Age of Decoloniality”

Spring 2023 Events

ROLAND BETANCOURT

“Simulacral Time: Historical Ethics, Recuperation, and the Byzantine Past.”

SUSIE LINFIELD

“How, and why, does an image become an icon? And why—or does—this matter?”

JAMES CAHILL; MARGARET COHEN

“Jacques Cousteau: Seeing Underwater and the Making of an Icon of Environmentalism.”

Fall 2022 Events

MARIA STAVRINAKI

BOOK TALK: Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time.

J. LORAND MATORY

“Slavery in the Heart of Freedom: Race, Religion, and Politics through the Lens of BDSM”

ASHLEY THOMPSON

“Aniconic Icons: Time and Gender in the Body of Angkor Wat”

Spring 2022 Events

DAVID FREEDBERG

“They Knew No Better: On the Dialectics of Image Removal”

LAUREL KENDALL

“The Power and Eccentricity of Balinese Temple Masks”

H. GLENN PENNY; Responses by NANCY LUTKEHAUS, DEBORA SILVERMAN

“Future Visions from the Past, or How to Salvage Ethnological Museums for the Future”

Fall 2021 Events

Matthias de Groof (filmmaker); Fiori Berhane (Anthropology, USC); Megan Luke (Art History, USC); Debora Silverman (History, UCLA); Stephanie Spray (Anthropology and Cinema, USC)

“Palimpsest of the Africa Museum: Screening and Roundtable Discussion”

CAROLINE WALKER BYNUM

“The Tyranny of Morphology and the Presence of Things”

Spring 2021 Events

JEFFREY HAMBURGER

“Diagrams in the Latin West”

MAIA KOTROSITS

“The Lives of Objects and the Frustrations of Memorialization in Early Christianity”

MIRJAM BRUSIUS

“People Inside Ruins: Heritage and Counter Archives”

Fall 2020 Events

CHRISTOPHER S. WOOD

Seminar launch: Conversation with Christopher S. Wood (German Department, NYU) about his new book, A History of Art History

DELL UPTON

“Monuments and Crimes”

SILVIA TOMÁŠKOVÁ

“Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea”

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