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Departmental Lectures and Events

Wednesday, September 26 and Saturday September 29, 2007
Urban Transformations / Shifting Identities
Graduate Student Symposium in Architecture and Urbanism
Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island

 

October 20, 2007
“Nature’s Disciplines”
The New England Renaissance Conference to be held at Brown University
Starr Auditorium, Macmillan Hall
Sponsored by: The Cogut Center for the Humanities, The Department of the History of Art & Architecture, the Center for the Study of Science and Technology, and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

2006

BODIES IN THE STREETS: FESTIVAL PRACTICES IN LATIN AMERICA
Art and the Festival in Latin America
A conference sponsored by the Department of the History of Art, the Cogut Foundation and the Center for Latin American Studies
April 8, 2006

WILLIAM JORDY – A COMMEMORATIVE SYMPOSIUM
March 3-4, 2006
The Legacy of William Jordy (1917-1997), the distinguished architectural historian, critic, teacher, and preservationist. For three decades (1955 -1985) Professor Jordy taught in the departments of Art and American Civilization. This symposium will bring together a number of colleagues and former Brown students to discuss the significance of William Jordy's history, criticism, teaching, and work in historic preservation. Click here for program information.

2005

Evonne Levy, Centre for Visual and Media Culture (CVMC), University of Toronto at Mississauga, “What is a Jesuit Form?” Thursday, November 10th 2005

Victor Stoichita, Visiting Professor at Harvard University, “Vision, Ecstasy and Body Language in the Spanish Painting of the Golden Age” Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

FOURTH ANNUAL GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM, APRIL 16, 2005

2003/4

"The Theater That Was Rome: 16th-18th Century Views and Maps", a Brown and RISD exhibition April 9 - July 11 2004 - Press Release

Rome In Print Symposium April 24, 2004

Third Annual Graduate Symposium

Art in an Urban Context

September 16, 2003
Guenter Nitschke, Institute for East Asian Architecture and Urbanism, Kyoto
“KYOTO: Idea of an Ancient City and its Preservation in our Time"

September 29, 2003
The 2003/4 Anita Glass Lecture
Peter Eisenman, Architect
“The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin”

October 14, 2003
Giuliana Bruno, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
“Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film”

December 2, 2003
Julian LaVerdiere, artist
“The Lamp of Memory”

March 23, 2004
Michael Cole, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
"Naming, Genre and Giambologna's Sabine."

April 27, 2004
Adriana Zavala, Department of the History of Art, Tufts University
“Landscapes and Cityscapes in Modern Mexican Art and Cinema"

2002/3

Second Annual Graduate Symposium

The 2002 New England Renaissance Conference

Architecture and its Histories: Cities, Architecture, Histories:

February 4, 2003
Alan Plattus
Professor, Yale School of Architecture, Architecture and its Histories
"Urban Space in the Image of National Unity."

February 25, 2003
Oleg Grabar (Anita Glass Lecture)
Prof Emeritus School of Historical Study, Institute
“The Key to Persian Painting”

March 11, 2003
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Professor of East Asian Art in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Curator of Chinese Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania
"The Tang Architectural Icon."

March 20, 2003
Sibel Zandi-Sayek
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
College of William & Mary
“The Politics of Public Space: Building the Quay in Nineteenth-Century Izmir”

April 10, 2003
Medina Lasansky
Cornell University
“The Sacri Monti”

April 12, 2003
Phyllis Lambert

April 15, 2003
Maria Elena Martin Zequeira
"Havana: Art Deco architecture"

2001/2

First Annual Graduate Student Symposium 2002

Making Art/Making Art History: Artists and Art Historians Talk about Contemporary Art

September 7, 2001
Sean Scully, artist
(Sponsored by the David Winton Bell Gallery in conjunction with their exhibit, "Sean Scully: Walls, Windows, Horizons", September 7-October 28, 2001)

October 16, 2001
Anne Wagner, art historian

November 28, 2001
Carin Kuoni, curator/critic

February 12, 2002
Judy Pfaff, artist

March 20, 2002
Wendy Ewald, artist
(Co-sponsored by The RISD Museum's Art ConText program)

April 17, 2002
Jonathan Weinberg, artist/art historian

This lecture series is sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Department of Visual Art, the David Winton Bell Gallery, the RISD Museum, The Anita Glass Lecture Endowment, and The Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts.

2000/1

Addressing the Museum: Focus on Collecting and Display:

October 17, 2000
Andrew McClellan, History of Art, Tufts University
“From Boullee to Bilbao: The Museum as Utopian Space”

November 14, 2000
Donald Preziosi, History of Art and Director, UCLA Museum Studies Program
"Haunted by Things: Museums and their Consequences"

December 5, 2000
Esther Pasztory, Pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
“The Past as Theme Park”

January 26, 2001
David Wilson, Director, Museum of Jurassic Technology,
6:00 pm, 120 List Art Building (sponsored by the David Winton Bell Gallery
in conjunction with their exhibit “False Witness”, January 27-March 11, 2001)

February 13, 2001
Annie E. Coombes, History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London
“After Apartheid: Making History in a Democratic South Africa”

March 6, 2001
Timothy Barringer, History of Art, Yale University
“Narrating British Art”

April 12, 2001
Paula Findlen, Italian History and History of Science, Stanford University
“The Renaissance in the Museum”

Exhibitions, retrospectives, national galleries, natural history museums, archaeological excavations: they all provide entertainment, encourage curiosity, forge reputations and build a sense of community. How is knowledge constituted through the kind of looking we engage in when objects are set out to be looked at in museums, galleries, and different kinds of specialized displays? What role do viewing spaces play in the architecture of a city, and in the narration of a city’s history? How does documentation affect the experience of looking, and bestow lasting importance on an ephemeral viewing event such as a temporary exhibition? This lecture series presents different views on looking, from people who have thought about how and what we collect and display, and the many roles exhibition assumes in the production of past and present civic identities and public culture.

This series is sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, The Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts, the Margerie Cutler Endowment, the Kenneth List Endowment, and the Joe and Emily Lowe Endowment.

Annual Anita Glass Memorial Lecture

  • 2006/07: Glenn Lowry
  • 2005/06: Robert Venturi
  • 2004/05:
  • 2003/04: Peter Eisenman
  • 2002/03: Oleg Grabar
  • 2001/02: Anne Wagner
  • 2000/01: David Joselit
  • 1999/00:
  • 1998/99: John Elderfield
  • 1997/98: Seymour Slive
  • 1996/97: Anne Birmingham
  • 1995/96:
  • 1994/95: Svetlana Alpers

Graduate Practica

2006

Dietrich Neumann led a Graduate Practicum devoted to the work of architect Friedrich San Florian, culminating in an exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery. May-July, 2006.

2005

The Graduate Practicum taught by Professor K. Dian Kriz produced a website devoted to the analysis of Ernest Hamlin Baker's The Activities of the Narragansett Planters , a New Deal mural produced for the Wakefield , RI , post office (dedicated in 1939) The mural depicts African slaves and a white planter in a southern Rhode Island landscape. The site was designed by first-year graduate students in Prof. K. Dian Kriz's Practicum course (HA0293), taught in the Spring of 2005.

2004

The Theater that was Rome Practicum, led by Professor Evelyn Lincoln in collaboration with Jan Howard, RISD curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, produced an exhibition at the RISD Museum and the John Hay Library centered on the collection of printed books, maps and views of Rome (and one architectural model) lent for the semester by Vincent J. Buonanno (Brown ’66). To this were added relevant prints, books and drawings from the collections of the RISD Museum and the John Hay Library.