Every year a committee comprised of five graduate students and one faculty member organizes a yearlong series of lectures by prominent scholars, curators and visual artists on various topics in art history:

Fusions in Art: Methods, Criticism, and Culture
Lecture Series 2009-2010

September 15, 2009, Tuesday
5:30 pm, 205 Gore
Wayne Craven Lecture
Michael Taylor
The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
"Givens: Robert Gober, Ray Johnson, Hannah Wilke, and the Legacy of Marcel Duchamp's Etant donnes"

October 8, 2009, Thursday
5:30 pm, 205 Gore
Deborah Howard
Professor of Architectural History, University of Cambridge
"Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice"

November 17, 2009, Tuesday
5:30 pm, 205 Gore
Monica Dominguez Torres
Associate Professor of Art History
University of Delaware
"Memory, Loyalty, Sovereignty: Indigenous Heraldry and Artistic Agency in 16th-Century Mexico"

Dissertation Colloquium
Graduate Student Research Presentations
November 30, 2009, Monday
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
122 Old College

February 25, 2010, Thursday
5:30 pm
Barry Flood
Associate Professor of Art History
New York University
"Between Hair Extensions and Tattoos: the Image in Islam"

March 11, 2010, Thursday
5:30 pm
Rachael DeLue
Assistant Professor of Art History
Princeton University
"Arthur Dove: Painting as Translation"

April 14, 2010, Wednesday
5:30 pm
Wiliam I. Homer Lecture
Peter Barberie
Curator of Photographs
Alfred Stieglitz Center
Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Philadelphia Museum of Art
"Charles Marville in the Bois de Boulogne"