Experience the vibrancy of Shanghai with the Harvard Summer Program, a six-week journey into China's economic powerhouse. This program counts as two semester-long courses...
Ana Ozaki Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Associate University of Virginia
This talk will discuss 'new Brazils' as a compelling model of futurity across the Atlantic over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While Afro-Brazilian returnees in West Africa implemented such a vision...
Join a community of interns to gain professional skills and learn about museum practice! We are currently accepting applications for summer and long-term internships at The Met in a wide range of department areas. The application deadline is Wednesday, January 10, 2024, 5 pm ET.
The Blakemore Foundation is now accepting applications for its Blakemore Freeman Fellowshipsfor Advanced Asian Language Study and the new Blakemore Kingfisher Art History Language Fellowships. Both programs provide full tuition and a stipend for living, travel and study expenses at approved language programs in Asia for an academic year of full-time intensive language study during the 2024/2025 academic year.
Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall 8 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Join the artist Alia Farid for a tour of Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis and a discussion of the artwork Chibayish, 2023. Chibayish is part of a larger group of works that Farid has developed since 2018, focused on the impact of extractive industries on southern Iraq and Kuwait's ecological and social fabric.
The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.
The exceptionally well-preserved Moche mummy known as the Señora de Cao was buried at the El Brujo ceremonial complex in northern coastal Peru around 500 CE. Her unusually rich and diverse funerary assemblage includes elaborate textiles, gold headdresses, and jewelry. Bioanthropological analysis identifies her unequivocally as female. But the objects in her funerary bundle include a mix of what Moche specialists consider classic male warrior regalia (war clubs, spear throwers, headdresses, and nose ornaments) and classic female grave goods (clothing, needles, and...
This seminar will examine the traveling architect Vincenzo Brenna (1741–1820). Born in Rome and having voyaged around Italy he moved to Poland, then to Russia, and died in Dresden. His archive is scattered since his work does not belong to any national art history. One sees the beginnings of Romanticism in his buildings while others consider them to be just an expression of the taste of his patrons. However through his collaboration with Piranesi and Pacetti, his studies of the Domus Aurea and his work on the decoration of Roman festive and funereal events, Brenna was able to...