Francesca Tronchin to Deliver AIA Lecture on October 2

Trained as a classical archaeologist and art historian, Francesca Tronchin, assistant professor of art history at Rhodes College, will deliver the inaugural lecture of the Nashville Society of the Archaeological Institute of America 2012-2013 series on Tuesday, October 2. Her lecture, “Interpreting Statuary in the Villas of Pompeii and Herculaneum,” will begin at 7 p.m….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 26, 2012 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Robert Storr to Present Goldberg Lecture on September 21

Artist and critic Robert Storr, dean of the Yale University School of Art, will reflect on the work of internationally acclaimed photographer Carrie Mae Weems at the fall 2012 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Friday, September 21, at 1:10 pm in the Bishop Johnson Black Cultural Center. A reception…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 6, 2012 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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James Wescoat to Address Water as Unifying Theme in Mughal Landscape

James Wescoat, MIT’s Aga Khan Professor of Architecture, will address “Water and Work in the Mughal Landscape” in a public lecture on Thursday, April 5, 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. An expert on the grand Mughal gardens built in the 16th and 17th centuries in what is now India and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 2, 2012 in HART, Lectures

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Romantic Art and the Natural Sciences: Focus of Goldberg Lecture on January 19

Dorothy Johnson, Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History, University of Iowa, will deliver the spring 2012 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture on Thursday, January 19, at 4:10 p.m. in room 203 of Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. Her lecture is entitled Elective Affinities: Romantic Art and the Natural Sciences from Girodet…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 10, 2012 in HART, Lectures

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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Featured on Campus and at the Frist

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, one of the most significant artists to emerge from the Cuban post-revolutionary era, will lead a conversation about race in her native country on Wednesday, October 12, at 5:30 p.m. in Cohen Hall 203. Joining Campos-Pons in a panel discussion entitled Exile, Memory and Identity: A Conversation about Race in Cuba are…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 12, 2011 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures

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Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar: “Sacred Ecology: Landscape Transformations for Ritual Practice”

Co-directed by Professors John W. Janusek (Anthropology), Tracy G. Miller (History of Art), and Betsey A. Robinson (History of Art) The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2011-2012. The Warren Center is hosting a year-long interdisciplinary faculty seminar exploring the manifold experiences of complex ritual sites around the world and across all periods of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 6, 2011 in HART, Lectures

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