Events
Past Events



MacArthur x BGC
What is Conservation?
Ubaldo Vitali, Emily Wilson, Beth Shapiro, David N. Spergel
May 18, 2022
Symposium—Richard Tuttle
What Is the Object?
May 13, 2022

Symposium—Conservation Thinking in India
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
May 7, 2022
Symposium—Conservation Thinking in Japan
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
May 6, 2022


MacArthur x BGC
What is Conservation?
Lauren Redniss, Danielle Bassett, Stanley Nelson
April 27, 2022
Making Ornamental Africa: An Enlightenment Process
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Anne Lafont
April 26, 2022

CANCELED—Lichtenberg’s Knife: A Few Reflections on Conservation
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Carlo Ginzburg
April 19, 2022
Africa’s Struggle for Its Art
History of a Postcolonial Defeat, 1965–1985
Bénédicte Savoy
April 13, 2022

Design Anthropology
Industrial Design and the Project of Post-War Development
Alison J. Clarke
April 5, 2022
CANCELED—The Past and Its Objects
History, Memory, and the Museum
Jyotirmaya Sharma
March 30, 2022

Heavenly Pearls: Nature, Religion, and…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Mónica Domínguez Torres
March 29, 2022
How Can a Gathering of…
Experimenting with Reinhart Koselleck’s Material Estate
Lisa Regazzoni
March 28, 2022

Symposium—High Availability
Museums’ Digital Response During the Pandemic
March 25, 2022
The Current State of Archaeology in China
Lothar von Falkenhausen
March 22, 2022

Conversations on Access and Design
The Horowitz Book Prize Symposium
March 18, 2022

Museum Affordances
Colonial Collections, Decolonial Possibilities
Paul Basu
March 16, 2022
“It is, Indeed, a Sister’s…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Mia L. Bagneris
March 2, 2022

MacArthur x BGC
What is Conservation?
Jeffrey Gibson, Sendhil Mullainathan, Marla Spivak, Campbell McGrath
March 2, 2022
Rebuilding the City of Ceramic:…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Charlotte Vignon
March 1, 2022

The Color of Modernism
Paints, Pigments and the Transformation…
Deborah Ascher Barnstone
February 24, 2022
Blackboards, Illustrations, and Models
The Materiality of Higher Education…
Mordechai Feingold
February 22, 2022

Indigenous Theories of Indigenous Arts in Transition
Art as Whakapapa (Genealogy) and Contemporary Taonga (Treasure)
Conal McCarthy
February 22, 2022
Fatimid Wood Networks
Production, Consumption, Circulation
Ariel Fein
February 21, 2022

Reckoning with Erasure
Lissy Mineo-Gonzalez
February 18, 2022
Puppets, Objects, and Modernity
“The Thing That Isn’t There”
John T. Bell
February 16, 2022

Ritual of Ornament
Jazmine Catasús
February 15, 2022
The Dutch Colonial Imaginary
Claudia Swan
February 15, 2022

Sugar, Silver, and the Bourbon…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Sarah R. Cohen
February 10, 2022
The King’s Rollodex
Sonja Drimmer
February 9, 2022

Penned by Encounter
Central Africans, Capuchin Friars, and…
Cécile Fromont
February 8, 2022
But She’s Wearing It Backwards
Understanding and Misunderstanding an Eighteenth-Century Mexican Court Gown
James Middleton
February 3, 2022

Esplendor y Lucimiento
Mirrors and Triumphal Language in Eighteenth-Century Quito
Isabel Oleas-Mogollón
January 27, 2022
Materialities of Ancient American Books
Paper and Other Flayed Skins
Barbara E. Mundy
January 26, 2022

From Concrete to Filigree
Exploring Diasporic Identity through Material Culture
Michelle Joan Wilkinson
January 25, 2022

Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav…
Debora Silverman
December 1, 2021

Eco-Gothic, Titian, and the Crossing…
Hannah Baader
November 30, 2021
Unlearning by Undoing: Towards a…
Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen
November 23, 2021

Objects as Data
Ancient Migration and Beringian Collections…
Brooke Penaloza-Patzak
November 17, 2021

Open House for Prospective Students
In-Person
November 14, 2021
Rhizomatic Forms and Global Black Aesthetics
Monica L. Miller
November 9, 2021

Object Biography: The Life of a Concept
Ann-Sophie Lehmann
November 2, 2021
Through the Priest’s Ear: An…
Felipe Gaitan-Ammann
October 26, 2021

Justice, Property, and Punishment: The…
Charmaine Nelson
October 21, 2021

Open House for Prospective Students
Zoom Event
October 14, 2021

Visiting INUA: Curating the Inaugural…
Heather Igloliorte
October 13, 2021
Islamic Palaces in a Christian…
Dana Katz
October 12, 2021

Art Hx: Digital Archiving and Forms of Care
Anna Arabindan-Kesson
October 7, 2021

Symposium—Majolica
The French Connection
September 24, 2021
Museum Conversations
Steven Nelson
September 15, 2021

Parthian Art is Still a Problem
Henry Colburn
September 14, 2021
Materiality and Politics: How Integrated…
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Seth Schwartz
May 19, 2021

A Stain on an All-American Brand
How Brooks Brothers Once Clothed Enslaved People
Jonathan Michael Square
May 11, 2021
Materiality and Politics: How Integrated…
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Seth Schwartz
May 11, 2021

CANCELED—Refresh-Reset-Reformat
Reclaiming and Celebrating Diné/Navajo Aesthetics:…
May 6, 2021
The Global Middle Ages Seminar
Valerie Hansen & Morris Rossabi
May 5, 2021

Joe the Pressman
Ethnicity, Labor, Literacy, and Resistance…
Charmaine A. Nelson
May 4, 2021
Materiality and Politics: How Integrated…
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Seth Schwartz
May 4, 2021

From Trauma to Tenderness
Following a “Middle Path” for…
Julia M. Brennan
May 3, 2021
Le musée, une histoire mondiale
Book Talk
Krzysztof Pomian & Peter N. Miller
April 29, 2021

Archaeological Encounters Seminar
Ruth Tringham & Brian Boyd
April 28, 2021
Marked in Clay: Interdisciplinary Methods…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Sanchita Balachandran
April 27, 2021

CANCELED—Objects as Data, and in…
A Short History of Beringian…
Brooke Penaloza-Patzak
April 22, 2021
Refresh-Reset-Reformat
Mark Olson on the Lives of Things
April 21, 2021

The Unnatural Ecologies of Modern Art
Fernando Domínguez Rubio
April 15, 2021
Epistemologies of Material Culture
Robert Pogue Harrison & Susan Stewart
April 14, 2021

Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another
Screening and Panel Discussion
April 13, 2021
Museum Conversations Seminar
Charles Saumarez Smith & Richard Rand
April 7, 2021

Transient Matter
“Exhibiting” the Assemblage of Contemporary Migration
Yannis Hamilakis
April 1, 2021
Seminar in the Art and…
Nicole R. Fleetwood & Mabel O. Wilson
March 31, 2021

CANCELED—Refresh-Reset-Reformat
Jas M. Morgan on just.fem.things
March 24, 2021
Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe
Book Talk
Suzanne L. Marchand
March 22, 2021

Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
Lia Markey & Stephanie Porras
March 17, 2021

Voices in Studio Glass History
Art and Craft, Maker and…
March 16, 2021
Things Fall Apart
Material Religion and the Problem…
Laurel Kendall
March 4, 2021

The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Nina Dubin, Meredith Martin & Madeleine Viljoen
March 3, 2021
Symposium—Refresh-Reset-Reformat
Giving Voice to the Past…
February 26, 2021

The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Brian Eugenio Herrera & Tavia Nyong’o
February 24, 2021

Going Bananas
Mixed Methods Research on Musa…
Cherubim Quizon
February 23, 2021
Modern Design History Seminar
Chris Breward & Michelle Tolini Finamore
February 17, 2021

Making Disability Modern
Roundtable Discussion
February 11, 2021
The Reality of Artifacts
An Archaeological Perspective
Michael Chazan
February 4, 2021

Indigenous Arts in Transition Seminar
Jill Ahlberg Yohe & heather ahtone
February 3, 2021
Imagining the Artifact
Collaging Blue and White Chinese Pottery
Harley Ngai Grieco
January 28, 2021

Working with the Hands
Applied Arts Training in New York City, 1800–2020
Jennifer Tobias
January 21, 2021

Postponed—Voices in Studio Glass History
Art and Craft, Maker and…
December 1, 2020


CANCELED—The Year 1000
When Globalization Began
Valerie Hansen
April 29, 2020
CANCELED—The Museum as a “School of Things”
Objects and Their Pedagogical Promise since Comenius
Ann-Sophie Lehmann
April 28, 2020

CANCELED—The Architecture of Public Memory…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Mary Marshall Clark and Amy Starecheski
April 16, 2020
CANCELED—A Story in the Making
Creating Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
Jill Ahlberg Yohe
April 15, 2020

CANCELED—Between the Gallery and the Academy
Adventures in Art, Fashion, and Design
Chris Breward
April 14, 2020
CANCELED—Symposium—Refresh-Reset-Reformat
Giving Voice to the Past…
April 10, 2020

CANCELED—Sense of the Past
Mario Wimmer
April 7, 2020
CANCELED—Marked in Clay: Interdisciplinary Methods…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Sanchita Balachandran
March 31, 2020

CANCELED—Do Baskets Speak?
Creating Afterlives of an Archaeological…
Ruth Tringham
March 24, 2020
CANCELED—Book Launch—Laura Leibman
The Art of the Jewish
March 23, 2020

CANCELED—Fashioning Race Through Metalwork in French Sugar Casters
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Sarah R. Cohen
March 17, 2020

Making a New Spain
The Material Worlds of Colonizers
Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría
March 4, 2020
Vernacular Viewing
Searchable Science and Visual Tools…
Stephanie Leitch
March 4, 2020

CANCELED—Inside Paris’s Churches: Rethinking France’s Religious Enlightenment
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Hannah Williams
March 3, 2020
The Dresden Residence-Castle
Sixteen Years of Growth of a New Museum
Dirk Syndram
March 2, 2020

Symposium—Eileen Gray
New Research and Methodologies
February 28, 2020
Birth Place of Industrial Design
Pratt History
Tucker Viemeister
February 27, 2020

Reinventing the Wheel: And Then Some
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Mark Peiser
February 25, 2020
“Let’s Mechanize the Donbass”
Images of Industry from a Contested Heartland
Preston McLane
February 21, 2020

The Matter of Things: Material…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Miriam Frenkel
February 19, 2020
The Sofa: Furnishing Moral Tales…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
David Pullins
February 18, 2020

The Matter of Things: Material…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Miriam Frenkel
February 12, 2020
Symposium—Revealing Communities
The Archaeology of Free African…
February 7, 2020

Glass
Mediator Mundi
Marvin Bolt
February 6, 2020
The Matter of Things: Material…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Miriam Frenkel
February 5, 2020

Art or Anthropology
Collecting Navajo Textiles in Boston,…
Ira Jacknis
January 30, 2020
Making History: The Art and Politics of Clay
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Michelle Erickson
January 21, 2020

Studio Portraits and Tourist Images
Writing a History of the…
Amy Lonetree
December 10, 2019

Seeing Through Touch, Touching with the Eyes
The Sensorial Construction of Rome…
Susanna Caviglia
December 5, 2019
Workshop—Semper Studies Now
Isabelle Kalinowski, Spyros Papapetros
December 4, 2019

Gottfried Semper
Architecture, Textile, and Memory
Isabelle Kalinowski
December 3, 2019
Workshop—Heidegger for Historians
History as Conservation
November 26, 2019

ASK Brooklyn Museum
Jessica Murphy
November 21, 2019
Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity
Transcultural Processes on the Iberian…
Stefan Heidemann
November 18, 2019

Ten Things You Didn’t Know…
James Delbourgo
November 14, 2019

The Force Fields of Things
Ian Hodder
November 13, 2019
The Next Frontier
Cities and Climate Change
Richard Sennett
November 12, 2019

Conservation as a Human Science at BGC
Soon Kai Poh
November 11, 2019
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: Philosophy—Degradation as…
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 8, 2019

Making in Iron and Clay
Tom Joyce, Hideo Mabuchi
November 6, 2019
Julius Bryant
Keeper of Word and Image…
November 6, 2019

Whose Historiology?
Protocols of a Heidegger Seminar
Jan Eike Dunkhase
November 4, 2019
“The Right to Live in the World”
Design or Disability
Elizabeth Guffey
October 23, 2019

The Secret Life of Art
Data Science for Art History and Art Conservation
Robert G. Erdmann
October 22, 2019

The Marchands de Modes, or…
Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset
October 21, 2019
Symposium—Re-Forming Modernism
Craft, Design, and Architecture at the Bauhaus
October 18, 2019

From Vogue to French Vogue
Visual Culture and National Identities…
Sophie Kurkdjian
October 17, 2019
Keynote Lecture—The Shock of the Old
Some Reflections on the Bauhaus at 100
Paul Betts
October 17, 2019

“Children of Strawberry”: Replication and…
The Lee B. Anderson Memorial…
Matthew M. Reeve
October 16, 2019

Paros and the Sanctuary of…
The Excavations and the Reconstruction…
Yannos Kourayos
October 10, 2019

Desiring Collectors
The Gayer-Anderson Twins and Their Works on Paper
Natalia Di Pietrantonio
October 2, 2019
Warburg and World Ornament
An Ethnography of Spaces
Spyros Papapetros
September 26, 2019

Device and Designs on Us
Esther Leslie
September 25, 2019

The Materiality of Infant Bodies…
Robin Fleming
September 17, 2019
“John Ashbery’s Nest”
A Poet and Collector in His Hudson Home
Karin Roffman
September 16, 2019

Showing Making
The Material Culture of Indigenous…
Hadley Jensen
September 11, 2019

“Of a Remarkably Down-Cast Countenance,…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Charmaine A. Nelson
September 10, 2019
Symposium—Antiquarianism in the Islamic World
Sponsored by the Trehan Research…
May 9–10, 2019

Making The Sogdians
Process, Product, and the Exploration…
Kimon Keramidas and Julie Bellemare
May 8, 2019
Reconstructing Renaissance Clothing
Sophie Pitman
April 30, 2019

“Cisterns in Which a Man…
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Susan Weber
April 25, 2019

Beyond Avant-Garde
Surrealist and Communist Museums of…
Arseny Zhilyaev
April 23, 2019
Creating and Curating The World between Empires
Art and Identity in the
Blair Fowlkes-Childs and Michael Seymour
April 22, 2019

Everything Sacred is Far Away
The Franz Boas Episodes
Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan
April 18, 2019
Failed Social Relations and the…
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
April 17, 2019

Decorating Soldiers: Black Manhood, Citizenship,…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Laurie A. Wilkie
April 16, 2019
The Franklin Stove
Heat and Life in the Little Ice Age
Joyce E. Chaplin
April 15, 2019

Thinking through Lines
How Early Greek Reliefs Connected…
Caspar Meyer
April 10, 2019

The Colored Museum
Notes on Africana Identity, Power,…
Charles F. Peterson
April 9, 2019
From Bayou Teche to Fifth Avenue
How Cane Baskets and Pepper…
Daniel H. Usner
April 4, 2019

Library Artist-in-Residence Talk
Rachel Selekman
April 3, 2019
Chasing Casanova
Venice and the Grand Tour
Kevin Salatino
April 3, 2019

Glass House Horror: Modernism’s Haunted Landscapes
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Sandy Isenstadt
April 2, 2019
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: Materials Science
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
March 28–29, 2019

Reshaping the Past
Ancient Maya Sculptures, “After” and Before
Megan E. O’Neil
March 27, 2019
Herbert Bayer’s Expanded Vision and…
Robin Schuldenfrei
March 26, 2019

Symposium—The New Typography
Graphic Design in Weimar Germany 1919–1933
March 22, 2019
Handmade
A Material Engagement Perspective
Lambros Malafouris
March 20, 2019

Thinking as Thinging
A Process Archaeology of Mind
Lambros Malafouris
March 19, 2019
Americana Redux
Materializing Multiculturalism during the United States Bicentennial
Catherine Whalen
March 18, 2019

Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Zeev Weiss
March 5, 2019

Ancien, Nouveau et Antique
Display and Connoisseurship in a Princely Ceramics Collection
Kee Il Choi Jr.
February 28, 2019
Race Work Made Material: An…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Anna S. Agbe-Davies
February 27, 2019

Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Zeev Weiss
February 26, 2019
A Chinese Canton
Making an Album of Things
Yeewan Koon
February 20, 2019

Charles Perrault Before the Fairy Tales
Seventeenth-Century Authorship, Material and Textual
Oded Rabinovitch
February 20, 2019
Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Zeev Weiss
February 19, 2019

Symposium—Field/Fair/Museum
Franz Boas, George Hunt and…
February 15, 2019
Filibuster Baby
JoAnne McFarland’s Art of Disruption
JoAnne McFarland
February 11, 2019

Design and the Feminine Self
Sandy Ng
February 7, 2019
A Digital Recreation of the…
A Contribution to the Early…
David Schwittek and Sally Webster
February 5, 2019

Economies of Destruction?
Creating Value by Destroying Valuables
David Fontijn
February 5, 2019
Symposium—Khipus: Writing Histories In and From Knots
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
February 1, 2019

“Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means”
The Life and Work of Abram Games
Naomi Games
January 30, 2019
Charles Cordier: A Hero of Polychromy
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Laure de Margerie
January 29, 2019

A Lifetime in the Art Market
A View from the “Dark Side”
Martin Levy
January 28, 2019
Woad War I
Dyes, Mordants, and Social Conflict in Renaissance Italy
Timothy McCall
January 23, 2019

Henri Vever: Art Nouveau Jeweler…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Willa Z. Silverman
January 23, 2019
Artists as Consumers: A Picture,…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Katie Scott
December 5, 2018

Open House for Prospective Students
Faculty Roundtable
December 2, 2018
Field Notes
How the Harvard Art Museums are Responding
Martha Tedeschi
November 27, 2018

Giotto, Gold, and the Global Trecento
Transcultural Perspectives on the Fourteenth Century
Vera-Simone Schulz
November 20, 2018
Cell or Soul?
Riemerschmid’s Patterns as Embodied Perception
Freyja Hartzell
November 15, 2018

Dangerous Beauty
Medusa in Classical Art
Kiki Karoglou
November 14, 2018
CANCELED—“Of a Remarkably Down-Cast Countenance,…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Charmaine A. Nelson
November 13, 2018

Symposium—Revivalism in the Age of Modernism
Design Revivals in the Twentieth Century
November 9, 2018

The Ivory Throne of the Levantines
Liat Naeh
November 8, 2018
What is a Ruin?
Alain Schnapp
November 7, 2018

Iconohistories of the American West
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Severin Fowles
November 7, 2018
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: History
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 1, 2018

Afterlives
The Living Signs of the Forensic Dead Body
Zoë Crossland
October 30, 2018
“A Complete Technique of Living”
Raymond Duncan (1874–1966)
Alexandra Palmer
October 24, 2018

Gina Suuda Tl’l Xasii ~…
Documenting Convergence, Divergence, and Co-existence…
Jisgang Nika Collison
October 23, 2018
For the Union Dead
Harvard’s Memorial Hall and the…
Ivan Gaskell
October 22, 2018

Open House for Prospective Students
Faculty Roundtable
October 21, 2018

French Visual Culture and the…
Laura Weigert
October 16, 2018
Art and Devotional Practices in the Byzantine Village
The Long View
Sharon E. J. Gerstel
October 9, 2018

Recreating the Seventeenth-Century Garden in Holland
Blending Nature and Design
Vanessa Sellers
October 3, 2018
Art, Space, and Mobility in…
Hsueh-man Shen
October 2, 2018

The Church of Saint-Riquier
Lost Monument as Work in Progress
Jenny H. Shaffer
September 26, 2018
Symposium—Shared Ground
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Craft Studies
September 20–22, 2018

Early Liao-Dynasty Ritual Objects in…
François Louis
September 20, 2018
Spider Woman’s Children
Navajo Weavers Today
Lynda Teller Pete, Barbara Teller Ornelas
September 17, 2018

Symposium—Agents of Faith
The Conference
September 14, 2018
Neither Natural Nor Artificial
Material Worlds in Assyrian Scholarship
Eduardo A. Escobar
September 11, 2018

New Discoveries in American Majolica
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Laura Microulis
May 2, 2018
Crossing Boundaries
Adventures in Art, Craft, and Design History
Caroline Hannah
May 1, 2018

Sculpture in Color
Challenging the European Canon
Luke Syson
April 25, 2018
From Corinth to Keep, or…
A Chorography of Greece…
Christopher Witmore
April 24, 2018

Conserving Active Matter: Indigenous Ontologies
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
April 18, 2018

The First Emperor, the Chinese…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Jason Sun
April 17, 2018
Looking at Lionesses
Macedonian Courts and Jewelry in…
Alexis Q. Castor
April 16, 2018

The Art of the Jewish Family, Lecture 3
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Laura Arnold Leibman
April 12, 2018

Between Philosophy, History, Science, and Literature
Annotated Books from the Library of Otto Neurath
Friedrich Stadler
April 11, 2018
The World for a Shilling
The Panorama as Global Landscape
Tim Barringer
April 11, 2018

A Viennese Library in Exile
Otto Neurath and the Heritage…
Friedrich Stadler
April 10, 2018
Folding and Wrapping the Sacred
Living with Late Medieval Relics…
Visa Immonen
April 9, 2018

Symposium—Disrupting Distance
Evolving Connections and Disconnects in…
April 6, 2018
Displaying the Antique in Georgian London
The Houses of Charles Townley…
Max Bryant
April 4, 2018

Technology, Wondrous or Fatal
Seventy Years of Giedion’s Mechanization Takes Command
Sokratis Georgiadis
April 3, 2018
Between Bukh and Sefer: Holocaust…
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Barbara Mann
March 29, 2018

The Art of the Jewish Family, Lecture 2
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Laura Arnold Leibman
March 28, 2018
Pressing Matter
On Museums, Material Culture Studies,…
Wayne Modest
March 27, 2018

How America Met the Jews
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Hasia Diner
March 22, 2018
A Short History of the…
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Tina Oldknow
March 22, 2018

Ingenious Inventions and the Secrets of Nature
The Marvels of Alexander the…
Elly Truitt
March 19, 2018
The Limits and Possibilities of…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Ellen Smith
March 15, 2018

The Art of the Jewish Family, Lecture 1
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Laura Arnold Leibman
March 14, 2018
Type, Paper, Glass, and Screws
Reading Surfaces and the Materialities of Communication
Jonathan Senchyne
March 12, 2018

Proximity to Power
Craft Capabilities and Material Empowerment…
Otto von Busch
March 1, 2018
Ten Meters Down
Antiquarian Geologics in Song China
Jeffrey Moser
February 28, 2018

Symposium—Bali and Beyond
Culture, Power, and Indonesian Textiles
February 26, 2018
Symposium—Early Codices
Production, Destruction, and Modern Conservation
February 23, 2018

Exoticizing in the Enlightenment
A Global History of Switzerland in Objects
Noémie Etienne
February 19, 2018
Designing Legacy
Marie-Antoinette and Josephine as Garden Patrons
Susan Taylor-Leduc
February 7, 2018

Savonnerie Carpets: Stages of Power
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Wolf Burchard
February 6, 2018
After the Fall
The Treatment of Tullio Lombardo’s Adam
Carolyn Riccardelli
February 1, 2018

“Too Poor to Paint, Too…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Dana E. Byrd
January 30, 2018
Reverse Engineering the Past to…
Jennifer L. Mass
January 29, 2018

Active Objects
Rethinking Mobility, Geography, and the Museum
Elizabeth Rodini
January 24, 2018
Distance and Redistancing as Tools…
Mark Salber Phillips
January 22, 2018

Seneca Village
The Making and Unmaking of…
Meredith B. Linn
January 18, 2018
Film as Scholarship
My Beautiful Anthropological Dissertation
Noam Osband
January 17, 2018

The Circle and the Rectangle
Indigenous Art, Canadian Residential Schools,…
Ruth Phillips
January 17, 2018
Carnegie, Capital, and the Kaiser
An Intellectual History of Financing Scholarship
Emily J. Levine
December 6, 2017

Open House for Prospective Students
Alumni Conversation
December 4, 2017
“Are we getting closer? Are we there yet?”
Mapping the Spaces of Poetic Inquiry
Jeanette Lynes
November 29, 2017

Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: A Cultures…
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 27–28, 2017
Quantifying Kissinger
Computational Analysis and Data Visualization in Historical Interpretation
Micki Kaufman
November 15, 2017

Russia’s Revolutionary Art School
The Moscow Vkhutemas
Christina Lodder
November 15, 2017
Rediscovering Édouard Lièvre (1828–1886): A…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Olivier Hurstel
November 14, 2017

Archaeological Science in Museum Collections
Re-examining Ethnological Materials and Ethnographic Accounts
Claire Heckel
November 13, 2017
Ship Shape
Incense Boats across the Early Modern Globe
Jeffrey L. Collins
November 9, 2017

Greek Parthenon Marbles? Elgin Marbles?…
Mark Stephens, CBE
November 8, 2017
Prudently Abandoning Wonder
On Changing the Governing Concept…
Mark A. Meadow
November 8, 2017

The University Art Museum as…
Lisa Corrin
November 7, 2017

Over Land and Sea
The Journey of a Chief’s…
Samantha Alderson, Peter M. Whiteley
November 2, 2017
Canadian Inuit Art
Variation Over Space and Time
Nelson Graburn
November 1, 2017

Heritage, Secrecy, and Failure
The Atomic Project Huemul
Trinidad Rico
October 31, 2017
The Private Life of Elizabeth I
Tracy Borman
October 30, 2017

Material Culture and Rabbinic Isolation
A Cultural Ecology Perspective
Azzan Yadin-Israel
October 25, 2017

Jacques Doucet
Couturier of the Belle Époque Stage
Alexandra Jaffré
October 24, 2017
Beyond the Temple, Lecture 3
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Andrea M. Berlin
October 24, 2017

The Material Culture of Trade and Diplomacy
Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset
October 23, 2017
Hopi Pottery Tales
Historic Museum Collections and Pueblo Pottery Futures
Lea S. McChesney
October 19, 2017

Class Divides
Reading, Writing, and Jewish Daily Life through Graffiti
Karen B. Stern
October 18, 2017
When Muslims Die in China
Nancy S. Steinhardt
October 18, 2017

Beyond the Temple, Lecture 2
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Andrea M. Berlin
October 17, 2017

On the Emergence of Jewish…
Alex P. Jassen
October 11, 2017
The Sovereign Artist
Charles Le Brun and the…
Wolf Burchard
October 10, 2017

Beyond the Temple, Lecture 1
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Andrea M. Berlin
October 10, 2017
Cabinetmakers of German Origin in Eighteenth-Century Paris
A Chapter in European History…
E. Ulrich Leben
October 9, 2017

On Not Becoming an Artifact
Corrine Hunt • G’lateeg’lee
October 4, 2017
Inessential Colors: A History of…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Basile Baudez
October 3, 2017

Agents of Faith
Thinking About an Exhibition
Ittai Weinryb
October 2, 2017
Making the Spanish Style
Fashion and Artisans at the…
Amanda Wunder
September 27, 2017

The Making of Americans
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Paul Chaat Smith
September 26, 2017
Fresco, Architecture, and the Lithic…
Fabio Barry
September 20, 2017

Satan at the Deluge and…
The Story of Noah in…
Nina Rowe
September 19, 2017
Making Andean Houses
Materials, Affordances, and Possibilities in Vernacular Architecture
Jerry D. Moore
September 18, 2017

Symposium—John Lockwood Kipling
The Legacy
September 15, 2017
Artistic Skills and the Hierarchy…
A Chinese Theme through Muslim and European Eyes
Joan-Pau Rubiés
September 14, 2017

The Distributed Text
Toward a Critical Digital Edition…
Aaron Glass
September 13, 2017
Revisits and Thick Description
Understanding the Legacy of Socialist…
Carol Yinghua Lu
August 28, 2017

Come to your Senses!
Sensiotics and Understandings of Persons,…
Henry John Drewal
August 23, 2017
Non-Human Aesthetics
A Trans-Species Perspective
Frédéric Joulian
May 9, 2017

Journey into a French Material…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Frédéric Joulian
May 8, 2017

From Maiolica to Majolica: The…
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Julius Bryant
May 3, 2017
Enlightened Princesses
Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the…
Joanna Marschner
April 27, 2017

From Design Studio to Marketplace:…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Lesley Miller
April 25, 2017

Mapping Mat ~ Con
Philipp Schorch
April 20, 2017
Behind the Seams
Women, Fashion, and Work in Nineteenth-Century France
Susan Hiner
April 19, 2017

Making Faces
New York Type Ephemera and…
Stephanie Sadre-Orafai
April 13, 2017
Blue Chip Artists, Glassy Thinkers,…
The Paul and Irene Hollister…
Susie J. Silbert
April 13, 2017

Texts and Textiles
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Marie-Louise Nosch
April 4, 2017

Earwitness Thomas Kuhn
The Interview in Historical Research
Anke te Heesen
March 29, 2017
Hanbok in Modern and Postmodern Times
Fashion, Counter-Fashion, and Anti-Fashion
Minjee Kim
March 28, 2017

Getting Art and Science Together…
An Exhibition History
Anke te Heesen
March 28, 2017
Teaching Game Design for Museums
Matt Parker, Barry Joseph, Marco Castro Cosio
March 27, 2017

Symposium—New York on Display
1853 New York Crystal Palace
March 24, 2017
Where Books and Fabrics Merge
The Endbands of the Eastern Mediterranean Bookbindings
Georgios Boudalis
March 23, 2017

Thinking About Cultural Heritage Now
The Work of the Penn Cultural Heritage Center
Brian I. Daniels
March 21, 2017
Alumni Spotlight Lecture—Keep the Research on Your Right
Teaching, Writing, and Curating as Tributaries
Ezra Shales
March 21, 2017


The Archaeology and History of Colonial Peru
The Case of Magdalena de Cao Viejo
Jeffrey Quilter
February 23, 2017
Keys to the H Blocks
The Materiality of Conflict and…
Louise Purbrick
February 22, 2017

In Enemy Hands
Captive Bodies in Ancient Mesoamerican Art
Caitlin Earley
February 21, 2017
From the Antipodes to the Met
Transformative Processes in Yolngu Art
Howard Morphy
February 21, 2017

Jock Peters and the Varieties of Modernism
Christopher Long
February 16, 2017

Insect Artifice
The Making of Joris Hoefnagel’s Four Elements
Marisa Bass
January 31, 2017

And One King to Rule Them All?
Investigating Religious and Political Landscapes…
Uthara Suvrathan
January 30, 2017
My Late Friend Mr. Robert Adam
Frances Sands
January 26, 2017

Book Launch — In Space We Read Time
On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
January 24, 2017
“The Great Kosmos of All Armenia”
On the Sarcophagus of Isaac
Benjamin Anderson
January 18, 2017

Foreign Phobia & the American…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Jack Tchen
December 13, 2016
Diamonds, Sugar, and Art
Flemish Merchants in the Early Modern World
Christina Anderson
December 7, 2016

Charles and Ray Eames
The Hollywood Connections
Pat Kirkham
December 7, 2016
Textiles in the Historic Interior
A Look at Curatorial, Conservation, and Interpretive Issues
Deborah Lee Trupin
November 30, 2016

Walking with Whitman
Mobile Learning in Brooklyn Heights
Jesse Merandy
November 29, 2016
Style and Politics in Central…
Paul Stirton
November 28, 2016

Symposium—Percier
Antiquity and Empire
November 18, 2016
The Cosmos of the Urban Craftsman
Andrew Morrall
November 15, 2016

Between Construction and Invention: Theories…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Jean-François Bédard
November 15, 2016

Beyond the Renaissance Palace
The Material World of Sixteenth-Century Artisans and Shopkeepers
Paula Hohti
November 10, 2016
Out of Whole Cloth
Exploring Balinese Textiles in the Mead-Bateson Collection
Urmila Mohan
November 9, 2016

A Parisian Residence of the…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Ulrich Leben
November 9, 2016

Redefining Color at Hôtel Beauharnais
The Restoration of the Furniture…
Ulrich Leben
November 3, 2016
Issues of Conservation and Display…
Jessica Walthew
November 2, 2016

The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Italy
A Short History and Some Current Issues
Salvatore Settis
November 2, 2016
Cultures of Conservation “Keyword” Panel
Digging into Central Park’s Layered Past
November 1, 2016

Mind in the Making
Reflection and the Artisanal in the Material World
Maggie Jackson
October 27, 2016
Whitney Stories
Humanizing the Museum through Digital Storytelling
Elyse Mallouk
October 26, 2016

Fashion and Art in Les…
Michele Majer
October 25, 2016

Netherlands Institute for Conservation Art and Science
An Integrated Approach Towards Understanding…
Robert van Langh
October 19, 2016
Real and Metaphoric Spaces
Perspectives and Positions in the…
Viola König
October 19, 2016

Symposium—Art and Ideology in the Twelfth-Century Western Mediterranean
Sponsored by the Trehan Research…
October 14, 2016

Luxury Object Artisans in the Ancient Andes
Coca and Metal Producers in…
Alicia Boswell
October 5, 2016

Jamestown and Beyond
Using Digital Technologies to Visualize…
Lisa E. Fischer
September 28, 2016

Multiple Authors
Ceramics, Celebrity, and Shaping Notions…
Malcolm Baker
September 15, 2016
Toward an American Indian Abstract
The Art and Politics of Mary Sully
Philip Deloria
September 14, 2016

Weaving Modernism
Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York
Kay Wells
August 24, 2016
Symposium—American Material and Visual Culture…
Sponsored by The Mr. and…
May 6, 2016

Rococo for the Spanish Court
The Interiors of Mattia Gasparini…
Tobias Locker
May 4, 2016
“Bold Design and Bolder Ornaments”:…
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Miranda Goodby
May 4, 2016

Wine, Women, and the Glory of Venice
Masterpieces of Renaissance Glass
Dora Thornton
April 28, 2016
Diasporas of Art and ‘The Great Forgetting’
Violence and the Visual Unconscious…
Debora L. Silverman
April 27, 2016

Symposium—Frontier Shores
Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture…
April 25, 2016

Mistake or Transgression? A History of Scandalous Clothing
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Denis Bruna
April 19, 2016
Bringing Back The Sheaves
Agrarian Life and Material Culture…
Brent D. Shaw
April 13, 2016

Dangerous Relic
“The Bloody Shirt”; A Material…
Matthew Dennis
April 12, 2016
Scotch Myths
The Furniture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh Re-appraised
David Jones
April 7, 2016

Global Things: Trade and Material…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Giorgio Riello
April 5, 2016
“The best Rubarbe is that…
Rhubarb and the Imagination of…
Anne T. Gerritsen
March 29, 2016

Collecting European and Asian Art…
Michael North
March 23, 2016

The Meaning of Glass: What…
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk
March 22, 2016
Climate and Commodities
Material Exchanges between West Africa and Europe, 1000–1300
Sarah M. Guérin
March 21, 2016

Conservation Conversation—A Multiplicity of Voices
The Structure of Preservation at…
Gabrielle A. Berlinger, David Favaloro
March 15, 2016

The Museum’s Role in Sustaining…
Vera A. Solovyeva
March 14, 2016
Paper is Part of the Picture
Margaret Holben Ellis
March 2, 2016

The Art, Praxis, and Power of Oral History
Mary Marshall Clark, Amy Starecheski
February 24, 2016
Wolf King of Glorious Memory
Culture and Ideology in Twelfth-Century…
Abigail Krasner Balbale
February 23, 2016

Cultures of Conservation “Keyword” Panel
Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, and Conceptual Art
Francesca Esmay, Sherri Irvin, Jeffrey Weiss, Glenn Wharton, Ivan Gaskell
February 23, 2016
Drinking Horns
Nature and Myth
Susanne Ebbinghaus
February 22, 2016

A Dictator’s Evil Decor
Reflections on Writing Hitler at Home
Despina Stratigakos
February 17, 2016
Making Space: Museums and Craft…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Namita Gupta Wiggers
February 2, 2016

The Tradition of Marble
How it is Quarried and…
Charlie Kaplan
January 29, 2016
A Short History of Thinking…
Peter N. Miller
January 26, 2016

Sun King to Moon King:…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Robert Wellington
January 26, 2016
An Ancient Wedding Dress in…
Svetlana Petrova
December 9, 2015

“And his raiment began shining,…
Investments in the Transfiguration
David Ganz
December 9, 2015
The Analysis of Organic Colorants in Art Objects
Case Studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nobuko Shibayama
December 7, 2015

Between China, Iran, and Byzantium
The Türks in Inner Asia…
Sören Stark
December 2, 2015
Textile Conservation at Historic Royal Palaces:
A 100-Year History
Charlotte Gamper
November 19, 2015



Going Universal
Nancy Proctor
November 11, 2015
Parasols and Pagodas
Lacquer Furniture and East West…
Tian Chun
November 10, 2015

Workshop—Fustat and the World in the Year 1000
Sponsored by the Trehan Research…
November 6, 2015

Color Matters
Synthetic Dyes in Early Meiji Japanese Prints
Stephanie Su
November 4, 2015
Design by the Book
Illustrating the Ritual Classics
François Louis
October 27, 2015

Cultures of Conservation ‘Keyword’ Panel:
Conserving an Alutiiq Kayak
October 27, 2015

Messages Across Time
Inupiaq Drawings from the 1890s
Elizabeth Hutchinson
October 21, 2015

A Digital Enlightenment: Experiments in…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Anne Higonnet
October 13, 2015
From Pets to Plastics:
The Material Culture of Everyday Life
Katherine C. Grier
October 12, 2015


Case Study: Sir Thomas Hanmer’s…
The New York Silver Society Lecture
Susan Hunter
October 6, 2015
The Glass Sliver:
Transparency and Dystopia in German Design
Freyja Hartzell
October 5, 2015

Thinking with a Photograph: Alexander…
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J.…
Marni A. Sandweiss
September 29, 2015
From Material to Digital:
New Directions in Material Culture and Museum Studies
Haidy Geismar
September 24, 2015

Symposium—Revisions
Object—Event—Performance since the 1960s
September 21, 2015
Symposium—Toys and Childhood
Playing with Design
September 18, 2015

Angelica’s Book
Material Culture and the Power of Reading
Brendan Dooley
September 14, 2015
(Post)musings from the Edge
Being an Indigenous Curator in Pacific Paradise
Paul Tapsell
May 6, 2015

Global, Comparative, International, Transnational, and Connected Histories:
Is the Methodological Tail Wagging…
Peter Baldwin
April 29, 2015

Straddling Worlds
Working Across Art and Craft,…
Elissa Auther
April 28, 2015
The Return of Curiosity: What…
Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Nicholas Thomas
April 21, 2015

The Art of Encryption
Music-Image-Text in Michael Maier’s Alchemical…
Donna Bilak
April 15, 2015

Elephant in the Room? Majolica…
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Martina Droth
April 14, 2015
The Birth of Italics
Randall McLeod
April 8, 2015

Is a Crocodile a Work of Art?
Seeing Objects in the Early…
Paula Findlen
April 8, 2015

From Industry to Art
Collecting and Exhibiting Textiles at…
Dilys Blum
April 1, 2015
Conservation Conversation:
“Conservation and the Future”
Salvador Muñoz Viñas, Paul Eggert
March 31, 2015

Symposium—Fashioning the Body
An Intimate History of the Silhouette
March 27, 2015
Hiding in Plain Sight:
The 20th-Century Apartment House in New York
Andrew S. Dolkart
March 25, 2015

Architecture, Art, and Liturgical Space in Postwar America
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Gretchen Townsend Buggeln
March 17, 2015

Two Royal Kitchens:
Discovery, Conservation, Interpretation
Lee Prosser
March 16, 2015
“The Magnificent Seven”
The Great Fāṭimid Rock Crystal Ewers
Jeremy Johns
March 5, 2015

Conservation Conversation
“Knowledge in the Making: Reconstructing…
March 3, 2015 – February 21, 2017
The Making of the Early…
Georgios Boudalis
March 2, 2015

Conservation Conversation:
“Conserving Indigenous Objects and Cultures”
Miriam Clavir, Jim Enote
February 25, 2015
Vernis Martin: French Lacquer of the 18th Century
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Monika Kopplin
February 24, 2015

Isabella d’Este’s Painted Service by Nicola d’Urbino:
From Creation to Display.
Valerie Taylor
February 23, 2015

Relay and Delay
Triumphal Processions in the Era of the Post
Shira Brisman
February 4, 2015
The Postdigital Museum
Ross Parry
January 28, 2015

Videoconference Series:
“Technical Art History and Materials…
Erma Hermens
January 26, 2015
Trouble the Water:
Superstorm Sandy and the Preservation of Place
Christopher Mulé
January 21, 2015

Videoconference Series:
“Technical Art History and its…
Georg Josef Dietz
January 12, 2015
Videoconference Series:
Technical Art History: “Damage”
Ivan Gaskell
December 15, 2014

Interchanges, Workshop Dynamics and Material Matters:
The Case of Norman Palermo
Ruggero Longo
December 4, 2014
Turned on by a Touch
The Light Switch and Everyday Life
Sandy Isenstadt
December 3, 2014

Ransom in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Exchanging Muslim for Christian Captives
Daniel Hershenzon
December 1 – November 10, 2014

From Ancient to Modern, Interdisciplinary…
Paula Hohti, Eva Andersson Strand, Luise Ørsted Brandt, and Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo
November 19, 2014
Videoconference Series:
“‘Held up to the light’:…
Marta Ajmar
November 17, 2014

Symposum—The New York Graphic Design…
A Symposium in Association with…
November 17, 2014

Fashion and Philosophy, or the…
Anne Kraatz
November 6, 2014
The Spanish Farthingale:
Women, Fashion, and Politics…
Amanda Wunder
November 5, 2014

Technical Art History:
Art and Science, a Marriage Made in Heaven?
Erma Hermens
November 3, 2014

Signal Images:
Art and Telegraphy in Post-Revolutionary France
Richard Taws
October 28, 2014
Unbinding Conservation:
Observations on the Past, Present,…
Alexis Hagadorn
October 27, 2014

Paying for the Sultan’s Pouf:…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Clare H. Crowston
October 21, 2014
The Olympic Design Milieu
Jilly Traganou
October 16, 2014

What’s the Big Idea? The…
Graham Beal
October 15, 2014
Staging Aboriginality
Shawn Rowlands
October 14, 2014

Atmosphere and Art: Kulturgeschichte, Period…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Kathleen Curran
October 14, 2014
Intimate Heritage:
Recent Trends in Japanese History Museums
Jordan Sand
October 13, 2014


Blending Handwork and Thought: Henry…
The New York Silver Society Lecture
Roisin Inglesby
October 7, 2014
Rarity-Booty-Furnishing:
Textiles from the Islamic World…
Barbara Karl
October 6, 2014

Material Culture as the Economic…
Pre-industrial Europe and Global Trade
Francesca Trivellato
October 1, 2014

Conserving Royal Treasures:
Secrets of the Workshop
Yannick Chastang
September 8, 2014
Symposium—Majolica
A World View
May 15–16, 2014

Workshop—History and Material Culture
World Perspectives
May 9–10, 2014
Beads and Buttons from Briare:…
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Ines Rotermund-Reynard
April 29, 2014

Case Study in Collaboration:
Conserving Thousands of Lost Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Michelle Chesner
April 24, 2014

Material Culture
The Concept and its Use in Historical Perspective
Nathan Schlanger
April 23, 2014
Symposium—Woven Worlds
The Social Lives of Andean Textiles
April 14, 2014

Symposium—Objects and Power
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Medieval Islamic Material Culture
April 11, 2014
The Painted King
Art, Activism, and Authenticity in Hawai’i
Glenn Wharton
April 9, 2014

Twelfth-Century Architecture as Incipient Globalism:…
Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Finbarr B. Flood
April 8, 2014
Symposium—Material Reformations
Towards a Material Culture of Protestantism
April 3, 2014

Classical Spies:
American Archaeologists with the OSS…
Susan Heuck Allen
April 2, 2014
Les derniers goûts de France:…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Max Tillmann
April 1, 2014

Problems in Design History Research:…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Bess Williamson
March 18, 2014

How To Do Things with…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Birgitt Borkopp-Restle
February 25, 2014
Design Futures
Service Design for Social Innovation
Lara Penin
February 19, 2014

Conserving Relics of the Classical Past
Civic Bodies and the Preservation…
William Stenhouse
February 12, 2014
The Clark—Next
Michael Conforti
January 29, 2014

A Dutch Mystic in the New World
Reverend Everardus Bogardus (1607-1647) and His Callings
Willem Frijhoff (Early Modern History, Free University, Amsterdam)
January 1, 2014
Patina:
Object Trauma and Human Narrative
Shannon Dawdy
December 11, 2013

Fowler at Fifty
Museum Collections and the Challenge of the Contemporary
Marla C. Berns
December 10, 2013
Polychromatic Pleasures
Decorating with Color in Nineteenth-Century France
December 3, 2013 – December 31, 1969

Polychromatic Pleasures:
Decorating with Color in Nineteenth-Century France
Laura Kalba
December 3, 2013

Towards Autonomous Design
The Ornament Print in the…
Femke Speelberg
November 20, 2013
Symposium—Exhibitions Research Teaching
The Bard Graduate Center at Twenty
November 13, 2013

The Gold of Icons
Robert Nelson
November 13, 2013
Conservation Conversations
Giorgio Riello and Sarah Scaturro
November 12, 2013


Flux:
On Silver and Time
Allison Stielau
October 8, 2013

Objects of a Passion:
Exhibiting Fashion and Dress in the Museum
Amy de la Haye
October 2, 2013

Conservation Conversations
David Bomford and Carlo Ginzburg
September 10, 2013

Baysunghur’s Garden Party and Other…
Ravi and Seran Trehan…
David Roxburgh
April 30, 2013

Panel Discussion:
Archaeology and Material Culture
Ian Hodder
April 11, 2013


The Gift of Criticism: Paul…
Catherine Whalen
March 19, 2013
Textile Variations
Matilda McQuaid
March 6, 2013

The Double Dream of Things:…
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Karin Roffman
February 27, 2013
Rousseau’s, and Other Relics:
Material Memories in Later Eighteenth-Century Switzerland
Béla Kapossy
February 20, 2013

The New Ashmolean
Christopher Brown
February 13, 2013
Paris—Potsdam—Paris: Gilt Bronzes ‘à la…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Tobias Locker
February 12, 2013

Mining Medieval Sources
Documents as Texts, Documents as…
Jessica Goldberg
February 6, 2013

The Studio and the Salon:
Artists, Masculinity, and Sociability in…
Daniel Harkett
January 29, 2013
India Ink: Imagery of the…
Imagery of the Subcontinent in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Larry Silver
January 23, 2013

The Ordeals of Substance:
Material Economies of Passion and…
Aden Kumler
December 5, 2012


In Order to Form a…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Laura Wexler
November 28, 2012
Hero and Villain: Lafayette’s Legacies
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Laura Auricchio
November 27, 2012

Symposium—Playing with Modernism
Historical Perspectives on Children and Design
November 16, 2012

The New Chinese Museology:
Shifting Geographies of Power, Development, and Heritage
Michael Rowlands
November 7, 2012

Silks from West and East:
A Study on the Textiles…
Zhao Feng
October 31, 2012

Constructing a Global Interior
The Imagery of Collections and…
Christine Göttler
October 17, 2012

Symposium—Circus and the City
New York, 1793-2010
October 15, 2012
Eating Ice-Cream on the Streets of Naples:
Materiality and Ephemerality in the History of Food
Melissa Calaresu
October 11, 2012

Ethnographic Images in the Late…
Joan-Pau Rubiés
October 10, 2012
Symposium—Beyond Representation
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
September 27–29, 2012

Out of Place
Art and History in Oceania
Nicholas Thomas
May 9, 2012
Object Lab:
Chipstone’s 21st Century Curatorial Initiative
Jonathan Prown
April 25, 2012

Legislating Space and Re-placing God:
Rabbinic Spatiality after the Destruction…
David Kraemer
April 18, 2012

When Fashion Set Sail: Maritime…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
April 3, 2012
The Courtauld Wallet:
Metal, Marriage and Mongols in Medieval Mosul
Rachel Ward
March 27, 2012

Textual Threads:
Crafting Ekphrasis in the Iberian Worlds (15th–17th c.)
Alessandra Russo
March 21, 2012
Iranian Art at the Time…
The Ravi and Seran Trehan…
Sheila Canby
March 14, 2012

Nadir Shah’s Delhi Loot and…
Sussan Babaie
March 13, 2012
Media Walls:
From Mid-Century Domesticity to Smart Home Environments
February 29, 2012

Conversation and Collaboration:
Strategies to Cultivate Meaningful Engagement with Cultural Audiences
February 22, 2012

Earth, Metal, Paper, and Silk:…
Seminar in Comparative Medieval Material…
Andrew Watsky
February 8, 2012
Symposium—Anthropology of Expeditions
Travel, Visualities, After-Lives
February 2–3, 2012

Voices of the People in…
Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus
February 1, 2012
The Order of the Third Bird
Documents and Considerations
D. Graham Burnett, Sal Randolph
January 25, 2012

Cardinal Mazarin: A Great Collector…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Isabelle de Conihout
January 24, 2012
An Iconology of the Textile…
Review of a Project at…
January 18, 2012

Khirbet al-Mafjar or Qasr Hisham?…
Tehran Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
Donald Whitcomb
December 13, 2011
The Cisneros Seminar in the…
Women Designers of the 20th…
December 6, 2011

Reading in Public
Ben Katchor
November 16, 2011

Symposium—Upholsterers and Decorators in 19th Century France
Georges Hoentschel’s Predecessors
October 28, 2011

Poppea’s Fortune
Ellen Rosand
October 26, 2011

Implements Correspondingly Peculiar: Slavery, Plantation…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Seth Rockman
October 19, 2011
On the Making of Holy…
Michele Bacci
October 12, 2011

Beyond the Old Silk Road:
International Influences in Glassmaking in…
Florian Knothe
October 11, 2011
Doris Duke’s Shangri La:
Architecture, Landscape, and the Islamic Arts
October 5, 2011

For the Royal Pleasure:
French Furniture made for the…
Ulrich Leben
October 4, 2011
Being English
An Exploration of Identity Through…
Chris Gosden
September 21, 2011

How Jesus Celebrated Passover
Some Early Modern Readings of the Last Supper
Anthony Grafton
September 7, 2011
Florence Knoll:
Textiles as Interior Architecture
Christine Gorby
June 16, 2011

The Cisneros Seminar in the…
Folk Art and Craft in Latin America, 1950-2000
May 18, 2011
Symposium—Ex Voto
Votive Images Across Cultures
April 28–29, 2011

The “Pleasures of Surprise” in…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Susan Taylor-Leduc
April 27, 2011
Heritage as Therapy:
The Materiality of Uplift in Post-Apartheid South Africa
April 20, 2011

The Body in the Library:
Structure and the Collection of…
David Hancock
April 13, 2011

The French Room in America
John Harris, OBE
April 7, 2011
The Mahogany Connection: From…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Jennifer L. Anderson
April 6, 2011

Symposium—Objects of Exchange
Social and Material Transformation on…
April 1, 2011
Forms of Distraction:
Towards a Decorative Imagination in Eighteenth-Century France
Mimi Hellman
March 30, 2011

Eyes of the Flaneuse:
Women Photographers and New York City, 1890s-1940s
Mary Woods
March 16–26, 2011

The Crystalline Body: Fragments of…
Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Jeffrey Schnapp
March 2, 2011
Archaeology and Design History
Michael Shanks
February 23, 2011

Needling: Embroidery and Satire in…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Melissa Hyde
February 16, 2011
The Artist in the Exchange:
Charles Edenshaw, Master Haida Carver
Margaret Blackman
February 10, 2011

The Materiality of the Brain…
David Freedberg
February 9, 2011
The Warp and Weft of History:
Raphael and Le Brun…
Tristan Weddigen
February 8, 2011

Scholar Zhang Peeks at Yingying:
Pictorial Aspects of Cloisonné and…
Claudia Brown
February 3, 2011
Souvenir Salvage and the Death…
Nicky Gregson
December 8, 2010

The Hand of God and…
Craft and Collaboration at Arnstein Abbey
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
December 1, 2010
From Gilding to Whitewash:
Aesthetics and Ethics of Distraction…
Finbarr Barry Flood
November 17, 2010

A Ducal Inventory in Sixteenth-Century Portugal:
From the Caribbean to China
Nuno Senos
November 10, 2010
Art’s Struggle with Judaism:
Medieval and Early Modern
David Nirenberg
November 3, 2010

Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601) and His Library:
Book Collecting and the Republic…
Angela Nuovo
October 27, 2010
Do Objects have Ethnicities?: Race and Material Culture
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Fath Davis Ruffins
October 20, 2010

The Second Life of Heritage
James Clifford
October 13, 2010
The Cisneros Seminar in the…
Rethinking Material Culture from the…
October 12–14, 2010

The Materiality of Style:
The Case of Ivories from…
Marian Feldman
October 6, 2010
Conference—Perspectives on the Liao
September 30 – October 2, 2010

Blogging, Now and Then (in…
Robert Darnton
September 15, 2010
The Cisneros Seminar in the…
Discoveries: Perspectives on the History…
Richard Kagan
May 17, 2010

Cosmopolitan Cosmetics:
Shiseido and Early 20th Century Japanese Advertising Design
Gennifer Weisenfeld
April 21, 2010
Symposium—Secondhand Culture
Waste, Value, and Materiality
April 15–16, 2010

Pacific History from Another Point…
Susanne Kuechler
April 14, 2010
Thinking About Things:
Studying Material Culture and Reading Objects
Margaretta Lovell
April 7, 2010

Public and Private in the…
Alden R. Gordon
March 31, 2010
What Galileo Saw and How:
Glass and its Challenges for…
Sara J. Schechner
March 25, 2010

Writing the History of Polish Jews:
the Case of Emanuel Ringelblum
Samuel D. Kassow
March 17, 2010
Hydraulic Engineering, Emperorship, and Ecology…
Evidence from the Visual Arts
Heping Liu
March 10, 2010

Aby Warburg’s ‘Mnemosyne Atlas’:
The Story of an Unfinished Project
Claudia Wedepohl
February 24, 2010

Managing Transitions in One of…
Paul LeClerc
February 3, 2010
Medieval Reliquaries:
‘Minor Arts’ of Major Importance
Cynthia Hahn
January 27, 2010

Citizenship and Style:
Interwar French and German Homes
Leora Auslander
January 20, 2010

The Artisanal Guitar:
Craft and Community in a Neoliberal Age
Kathryn M. Dudley
December 2, 2009
Tipu Sultan’s Mission to Versailles:…
Meredith Martin
November 18, 2009

Germany in the World, 1600-2000:
Thinking About a New Project
David Blackbourn
November 11, 2009
The Art of Illumination:
The Limbourg Brothers and…
Timothy Husband
November 4, 2009

Inventory and the Poetry of Things
Peter Cole
October 29, 2009
Changing Attitudes Towards Power and Palaces:
Architecture Between Umayyad ‘Desert…
Thomas Leisten
October 28, 2009

Symposium—Dutch New York Between East and West
The World of Margrieta van Varick
October 19, 2009

The English Press and the…
Juliet Fleming (English, New York University)
September 23, 2009

Colloquium—Objects in Motion
The Circulation of Religion and…
May 2, 2008

Symposium—Cellini
Artist, Artisan, Author
October 28, 2000

Illuminating Hoentschel
A French Tastemaker and His World
Ulrich Leben
November 30, 1999