Passages Across Time, Space & Media
Lecture Series, 2005-2006

Department of Art History, University of Delaware

Linda Pellecchia
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
Wit and Wisdom: Aesop’s Fables and the Kalila wa-Dimna on a Renaissance Staircase
Thursday, September 29, 2005, 5:30 p.m., 202 Old College
Peter X. Feng
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware
Television, Ethnicity, and Masculinity: The Business of Syndication
Thursday, October 13, 2005, 5:30 p.m., 202 Old College
William I. Homer Lecture in Photography
Sarah Greenough
Curator and Head, Department of Photographs, National Gallery, Washington, DC
“Mystery, Melancholy and Nostalgia: André Kertész’s View of Paris”
Thursday, November 3, 2005, 5:30 p.m., 006 Willard Hall
Graduate Student Symposium
Thursday, March 2, 2006, 5:30 p.m., 006 Willard Hall
Helen Langa
Associate Professor of Art History, American University, Washington, DC
“American Printmaking: Social Justice and Politicized Visual Culture in the 1930s”
Thursday, March 16, 2006, 5:30 p.m., 006 Willard Hall
Cynthia Hahn
Gulnar K. Bosch Professor of Art History, Florida State University
“Medieval Treasures: Legends and Relics”
Thursday, April 6, 2006, 5:30 p.m., 006 Willard Hall
Wayne Craven Annual Lecture
Oleg Grabar
Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
“Shared Objects: 7-8th Century Silver from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Origins of Islamic Art”
Thursday, April 20, 2006, 5:30 p.m., 007 Willard Hall
All programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Department of Art History, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716-2516, phone (302) 831-8415.
To request disability accommodation, please call (302) 831-8415 at least 10 business days in advance of the lecture.
Funding support provided by the Committee on Activities and Public Events (CAPE), and the Visiting Women Scholars Fund.
The lecture series was organized by Rebecca Ayres, Laura Cochrane, Janet
Dees, Ellery Foutch, Dawn Morehouse, and Professor Mónica Domínguez Torres.
The University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.