Hilary Gopnik to Deliver AIA Lecture on November 5

Hilary Gopnik, co-director of the Naxçivan Archaeological Project at Emory University, will deliver a lecture about Alexander the Great in the far reaches of his empire on Tuesday, November 5, at 7 p.m. in the Nashville Parthenon at Centennial Park. Her lecture, entitled On the Edge of Alexander’s World: The Unfinished Palace at Oğlanqala, Azerbaijan,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 1, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Amy McNair to Deliver Goldberg Lecture on November 7

Amy McNair, professor of Chinese art, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas, will present the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, November 7, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. Her lecture is entitled “Heroic Abandon: The 1300-Year Life of Yan Zhenqing’s Imperial Commissioner Liu Letter.”…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 29, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Alumna to Lecture on Modernist Architect Edward Durell Stone

*A video of Mary Anne Hunting’s October 3 lecture is available here. “Colossus, visionary, giant”—these are just some of the superlatives used to describe modernist architect Edward Durell Stone in his prime in the late 1950s when he emerged as one of the first “celebrity architects,” said architectural historian Mary Anne Hunting in a recent…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 20, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni

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Andrew Graciano To Deliver Goldberg Lecture on September 26

Andrew Graciano, associate professor of art history, associate chair and graduate director in the department of art, University of South Carolina, will present the fall 2013 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, September 26, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. His lecture is titled Joseph Wright’s Academy by…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 3, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Present Talk to Berlin Historical Association

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, will give a talk in Berlin entitled A Non-Fictional Thriller: Henry Ries, the Quakers, the State Department and My Mother’s Dramatic Rescue from Nazi Germany. Fryd, niece of the New York Times photographer Henry Ries (1917-2004), will address the Berlin Historical Association on June 25 at the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 25, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Lecture in Rome at International Conference

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will present a research paper on chinoiserie at the international conference “Torino Britannica,” held June 19-22 at the British School in Rome and the Centro di Studi di Venaria Reale in Turin. This interdisciplinary conference will examine a neglected aspect of eighteenth-century Grand…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 21, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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HART Professors to Lecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing

Betsey Robinson, associate professor of the history of art, and Tracy Miller, acting chair of the history of art department, will deliver comparative lectures on Thursday, May 23, in the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Their overarching topic is Sacred Landscapes Real and Imagined: Role Reversals in the Study of Pre-modern Greek and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 20, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Barbara Tsakirgis Lectures on Hellenistic Houses at Morgantina

Barbara Tsakirgis, associate professor of classics and history of art, was invited to lecture on Thursday, April 4, at a conference on Hellenistic houses and their functions held at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. Tsakirgis’s paper was entitled Decor, Deposits and Descriptions: an Analysis of Space in the Hellenistic Houses at Morgantina in Their…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 16, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Student Research Symposium Slated for Thursday, April 18

Graduating seniors and history of art majors Katherine Calvin, Jordan Comstock, Lexi McColl, and Caroline Passano are the featured speakers at the third annual Student Research Symposium on Thursday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m. in Cohen 203. A reception in the atrium will immediately follow the symposium. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 16, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Present Talk in Berlin on Henry Ries and Her Family

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, will give a talk in Berlin on April 11 entitled A Non-Fictional Thriller: Henry Ries, the Quakers, the State Department and My Mother’s Dramatic Rescue from Nazi Germany. Fryd, niece of the New York Times photographer Henry Ries (1917-2004), will speak at the John F. Kennedy Institut…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 9, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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