Next @ BGC:

Bruno Laurioux (CNRS, Paris), will be speaking as part of the Bard Graduate Center and Columbia University Medieval-Renaissance Program, April 29, 2008 and April 30, 2008:

Tuesday, April, 29 2008, 5:30 pm -The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
"Between Middle Ages and Renaissance: Gastronomy in the XVth Century”
For directions to the Heyman Center, please visit: www.heymancenter.org/visit.php

Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 6:00 pm - BGC, 38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall
“The Arts of the Table in the Middle Ages”
Reception begins at 5:45 p.m., talk at 6:00 pm


RSVP rosenthal@bgc.bard.edu or (212) 501-3019

Seminars and Lecture Series

Françoise and Georges Selz Endowed Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture

The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass

BGC / Columbia University Medieval-Renaissance Program

BGC / N-YHS Exhibition Collaboration: The Worlds of Margarita van Varick, 1650-1750: Molucca, Amsterdam, Flatbush

Seminar in Cultural History

Modern Design History Seminar

Seminar in New York & American Material Culture

Arts of the Islamic World

Library Lecture

Graphic Design

Click here for a listing of 2007-2008 seminars.

Symposia

"The Past, Present and Future of the Period Rooms. A Symposium to Mark the Reopening of the Wrightsman Rooms." A collaboration of the BGC and the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Friday, February 15, 2008

"Certified Authentic? Counterfeits, Copies, and the Construction of Culture," a symposium at the Bard Graduate Center organized by the Bard Graduate Center graduate students.
Friday, April 25, 2008

"Objects in Motion: The Circulation of Religion and Sacred Objects in the Late Antique and Early Medieval World," a symposium at the Bard Graduate Center organized by Dr. Hallie Meredith, BGC Fellow 2007-08.
Friday, May 2, 2008

Second Annual Meeting of the Consortium for American Material Culture, with representatives from Boston University (New England & Material Culture), Brown University (American Civilization), Yale University (American Studies), Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Material Culture M.A.) and the Smithsonian Institution (Material Matters Forum).
Friday, May 9, 2008

Materials Days

Sugar Sculpture with Ivan Day
Sunday, December 7, 2008

For additional information contact Benjamin Rosenthal, rosenthal@bgc.bard.edu.

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