Lisa Swart to Deliver Archaeology Lecture on March 20

Lisa Swart, lecturer at Vanderbilt Divinity School and president of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt, will deliver the Archaeological Institute of America lecture at 7:00 pm on Thursday, March 20, at the Nashville Parthenon. Her lecture is entitled “Crafting for Eternity: Early Third Intermediate Period Workshops in Thebes, Egypt.” The…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 18, 2014 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Halle O’Neal Featured in Fireside Chat Series on March 13

Halle O’Neal, Mellon Assistant Professor of History of Art, will give a talk as part of Vanderbilt’s Fireside Chat series on Thursday, March 13, at 7 p.m. in McTyeire Hall. Her presentation is entitled The Universe in a Fingernail? Connecting Pop Culture with Buddhist Relics. “You might be surprised to find out that the principles…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 11, 2014 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Exhibit of German Art Opens March 13

The Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery celebrates the opening of History’s Shadow: German Art and the Formulation of National Identity with a reception on Thursday, March 13, from 5 to 7 pm in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus. The exhibit, curated by Joseph S. Mella, gallery director, will remain on view through June 5….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 10, 2014 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Hollis Clayson to Present Goldberg Lecture on March 27

S. Hollis Clayson, 2013-2014 Samuel H. Kress Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University, will present the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, March 27, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 6, 2014 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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HART Students Study Aaron Douglas Murals at Fisk University

Standing beneath one of Aaron Douglas’s murals in the card catalogue room of the former Cravath Memorial Library (now Cravath Hall, the main administrative building) at Fisk University in Nashville are (left to right) Demi Landstadt, Khalila Blake, and Sujin Shin, students in Rebecca VanDiver’s African American Art class. VanDiver, senior lecturer in the department…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 6, 2014 in HART, HART in Nashville, VRC

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DIMLI Takes the Stage at VRA Conference March 12-15

Chris Strasbaugh, director of the Visual Resources Center in Vanderbilt’s History of Art department, will talk about DIMLI (Digital Image Management Library) in several sessions planned for VRA 32, A Visual Approach, the 2014 Visual Resources Association’s annual conference held March 12-15 in Milwaukee. Strasbaugh and his colleagues have developed the open source DIMLI, a…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 6, 2014 in HART, VRC

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Warren Center Announces New Seminar on Material Culture

Mireille Lee, assistant professor of history of art, and Beth Conklin, associate professor of anthropology, are coordinating a new seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities entitled “Material Culture in Context.” This seminar explores objects and materiality from multiple perspectives. It will examine the meaning attached to objects by the people who…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 24, 2014 in Events, HART, VRC

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Amanda Wunder to Lecture on the Spanish Farthingale

Amanda Wunder, assistant professor of history at Lehman College (CUNY) and of art history at the CUNY Graduate Center, will present a lecture entitled “The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Farthingale: Women’s Fashions and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Spain” on Thursday, February 27, at 4:10 pm in 203 Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. The…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 7, 2014 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Robert Ousterhout to Deliver Goldberg Lecture on February 20

Robert Ousterhout, professor of the history of art, University of Pennsylvania, will present the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, February 20, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. His lecture is entitled “The Life and Afterlife of Constantine’s Column,” with a reception to follow in the atrium. A…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 31, 2014 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Richard Talbert to Deliver AIA Lecture on January 28

Richard Talbert, the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will deliver the Archaeological Institute of America lecture at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, January 28, at the Nashville Parthenon. His lecture is entitled “The Magnificent Peutinger Map: Roman Cartography at its Most Creative.” Talbert’s historical…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 22, 2014 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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