Art history lecture series set for the year

4:12 p.m., Sept. 29, 2005--The Department of Art History’s 2005-06 lecture series, "Passages across Time, Space and Media," is set for 5:30 p.m., Thursdays, beginning Sept. 29 and concluding April 20.

UD faculty as well as guest professors and speakers will present the talks, which are free and open to the public. Locations vary throughout the year.

The series includes:

“Wit and Wisdom: Aesop’s Fables and the Kalila wa-Dimna on a Renaissance Staircase,” with Linda Pellecchia, associate professor of art history, Sept. 29, in 202 Old College Hall;
“Television, Ethnicity, and Masculinity: The Business of Syndication,” with Peter X Feng, associate professor of English, Oct. 13, 202 Old College;
“William I. Homer Lecture in Photography: Mystery, Melancholy and Nostalgia: André Kertész’s View of Paris,” with Sarah Greenough, curator and head of photographs at the National Gallery, Nov. 3, 006 Willard Hall;
“Graduate Student Symposium,” March 2, location to be announced;
“American Printmaking: Social Justice and Politicized Visual Culture in the 1930s,” with Helen Langa, associate professor of art history, American University, March 16, location to be announced;
“Medieval Treasures: Legends and Relics,” with Cynthia Hahn, Gulnar K. Bosch Professor of Art History, Florida State University, April 6, location to be announced; and
“Wayne Craven Annual Lecture: Shared Objects: seven and eighth Century Silver from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Origins of Islamic Art,” with Oleg Grabar, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture at the Institute for Advanced Study in the School of Historical Studies at Princeton University, April 20, location to be announced.

For more information, call (302) 831-8415.

Article by Iesha Barnes, AS ‘06

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