Elizabeth Moodey Featured Lecturer at University of Wyoming’s Visiting Artists Series

Elizabeth Moodey, assistant professor of history of art, was invited by the Department of Art at the University of Wyoming to present a lecture as part of their Visiting Artists Series.  Her lecture on March 9 was entitled “Laying Out the Case for Crusade in a Medieval Chronicle.” Moodey also taught a seminar in their…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 6, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Mireille Lee Speaks at University of Louisville Spring Lecture Series

Mireille Lee, assistant professor of history of art, was among several scholars participating in a spring lecture series at the University of Louisville examining “Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World.” Her March 3 lecture was entitled “Mirror, Mirror:  Reflections of Femininity.”  A specialist in Greek art and archaeology, Lee has a particular interest in the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 5, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Goldberg Lecturer to Examine Islamic Gardens as Fully Sensory Environments on March 30

“Islamic gardens were fully sensory environments, delighting the eyes, nose, ears,” described D. Fairchild Ruggles, an historian of Islamic art and architecture and professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  “The fleeting sensations made by a fountain’s spray or the scent of a rose do not last in the body or…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 15, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns Examines Chinoiserie in the Context of Church and State Politics

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, has written a groundbreaking study that examines chinoiserie—European works of art and visual culture that were influenced by Chinese art—in the context of church and state politics, with particular focus on the Catholic missions’ impact on Western attitudes toward China and the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 14, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Kevin Murphy: Universities as Vanguards of Historical Preservation

The current issue of Vanderbilt Magazine (Winter 2016) features an article on a new campus land-use plan entitled “A Plan for All Seasons.”  Speaking at the all-day Vanderbilt University Land Use Symposium held on campus in early November, Kevin Murphy, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Department of History of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 14, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Ulla Haselstein to Lecture March 17 on Gertrude Stein’s Portrait of Cézanne

Ulla Haselstein, professor and chair of American Literature at the John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität, Berlin, will address “Gertude Stein’s Portrait of Cézanne” in a lecture on Thursday, March 17, at 4:10 pm in Buttrick Hall 305 on Vanderbilt’s main campus.  A recipient of a two-year “opus magnum” grant from the VW Foundation,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 14, 2016 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns Presents Paper on Chinoiserie and Chairs Session at SEASECS Meeting

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, presented a paper and chaired a session at the annual meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held February 25-27 in Savannah, Georgia.  His paper on chinoiserie addressed “The Color Yellow:  Qing Imperial Chromatics and the Origins of Western Ideas…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 12, 2016 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Elspeth Dusinberre to Present AIA Lecture on March 1 on the Ancient Persian Empire

Elspeth Dusinberre, chair and professor of classics at the University of Colorado-Boulder, will  lecture on “Power and the Ideal in the Ancient Persian Empire” at the Nashville Parthenon on Tuesday, March 1, at 6 pm.  Her lecture will explore the glories and practices, the rhetoric and realities, of the ancient Persian Empire. When Alexander the Great…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 24, 2016 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Pakistani Artist Mahwish Chishty Featured in Studio VU Lecture on February 10

Initially trained as a miniature painter from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, Mahwish Chishty has aggressively combined new media and conceptual work with her traditional practice, emerging as a notable conceptual artist.  As part of the Department of Art’s Studio VU Lecture Series, Chishty will talk about her work on Wednesday, February 10,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 10, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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HART Professors Present Papers at CAA Annual Conference February 3-6

Professors Mireille Lee, Barbara Tsakirgis, and Riyaz Latif travel to Washington, DC this week to present papers at the College Art Association annual conference held February 3-6.  The conference consists of four days of presentations, panel discussions, workshops, special events, and exhibitions exploring the study, practice, and history of art and visual culture. Lee, Assistant…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 3, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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