September
Open House for Educators
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Bard Graduate Center, 18 West 86th Street
Education, Educators and Schools
Juliet Fleming
The English Press and the History of Wallpaper, 1500 -1702
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Cultural History
Willem Frijhoff
A Dutch Mystic in the New World:Reverend Everardus Bogardus (1607-1647) and His Callings
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street
Interpretation, Lectures
October
Walking Tour: A Visit to Nieuw Amsterdam
11:00 am – 1:30 pm
National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, New York
Education, Tours
Jaś Elsner
Alois Riegl and Classical Archaeology
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Cultural History
Open House for Seniors
10:30 am – 3:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center, 18 West 86th Street
Education, Seniors
Fred Myers
Trajectories of Value in Pintupi Painting: an Incomplete History of an Aboriginal Painting Movement
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Indigenous Arts in Transition
Symposium:Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Symposia, Book Arts
Symposium: Thalassography and Historiography
Monday, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Tuesday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Symposia, Book Arts
Ruth Piwonka
David Voorhees
Flatbush in the Seventeenth Century
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street
Interpretation, Curatorial Conversations
Thomas Leisten
Changing Attitudes Towards Power and Palaces: Architecture Between Umayyad 'Desert Castles' and Abbasid Urban Imperial Palaces
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Trehan Lecture
Peter Cole
Inventory and the Poetry of Things
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center, 18 West 86th Street
Interpretation, Gallery Talks
November
Community Festival: Navigate Early New York!
12:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Bard Graduate Center, 18 West 86th Street
Education, Community
Timothy Husband
The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the 'Belles Heures' of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Book Arts
David Blackbourn
Germany in the World, 1600-2000: Thinking About a New Project
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Cultural History
Andrew Delbanco
Melville in New York
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center, 18 West 86th Street
Interpretation, Gallery Talks
Upon the Wine-Dark Sea:The Music of Margrieta's World/
Bradley Brookshire and Rufus Müller in Concert
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center, 18 & 38 West 86th Street
Education, Concerts
The Buffet Party: Entertaining with American Ingenuity
6:30 am – 9:00 am
Bard Graduate Center at 38 West 86th Street
Event, BGC Scholarship Fund
Meredith Martin
Tipu Sultan's Mission to Versailles: Indomania and Anglomania in Pre-Revolutionary Paris
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Selz Lecture
Bernard L. Herman
Inventory: Text and Context
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street
Interpretation, Curatorial Conversations
Reflecting on Silver:Manufacture, Markets, and Meaning in Early New York
Friday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
, –
Bard Graduate Center, 18 West 86th Street
Education, Study Days
December
Kathryn M. Dudley
The Artisanal Guitar: Craft and Community in a Neoliberal Age
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, NY & American Material Lecture
Family Day: Discover Dutch New York!
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street
Education, Families
Juliet Kinchin
Hungarian Pottery, Politics and Identity in the 20th Century
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Modern Design History
January
Paul LeClerc
Managing Transitions in One of the World's Biggest Libraries
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Library Lectures
Leora Auslander
Citizenship and Style: Interwar French and German Homes
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Cultural History
Cynthia Hahn
Medieval Reliquaries: ‘Minor Arts’ of Major Importance
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Comparative Medieval Material Culture
February
Symposium: The Artifact in the Age of New Media
Thursday, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Symposia, Book Arts
Sara J. Schechner
What Galileo Saw and How: Glass and its Challenges for 17th Century Telescope Makers
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Hollister Lectures
Claudia Wedepohl
Aby Warburg’s 'Mnemosyne Atlas': the Story of an Unfinished Project
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Book Arts
March
Heping Liu
Hydraulic Engineering, Emperorship, and Ecology in 10th and 11th Century China: Evidence from the Visual Arts
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Comparative Medieval Material Culture
Samuel D. Kassow
Writing the History of Polish Jews: the Case of Emanuel Ringelblum
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Cultural History
Alden R. Gordon
Public and Private in the Art Patronage of Madame de Pompadour
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Selz Lecture
April
Margaretta Lovell
Thinking About Things: Studying Material Culture and Reading Objects
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, NY & American Material Lecture
Susanne Kuechler
Pacific History from Another Point of View: Material Translation and its Social Effects
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Seminars/Lectures, Indigenous Arts in Transition
Symposium: Secondhand Culture: Waste, Value and Materiality
Thursday, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Symposia, Book Arts
Gennifer Weisenfeld
Cosmopolitan Cosmetics: Shiseido and Early 20th Century Japanese Advertising Design
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY
Seminars/Lectures, Modern Design History