Spring 2023

Joseph Koerner Explores the prints of Albrecht Dürer and his contemporaries, with emphasis on how reproductive technologies effect image making and image reception. Classes are held in the Harvard Art Museums and focused on holdings of the collection.

Evridiki Georganteli Crusading expeditions in the Holy Land, Spain and Eastern Europe from 1096 until the end of the Middle Ages shaped the political, socio-economic and cultural map of Europe and the Middle East. This course explores the multifaceted...

Ioli Kalavrezou The seminar will focus on topics relating to the social and political history of Byzantine culture in the centuries between the end of Iconoclasm and the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders (c. 850-1204). Topics under consideration...

Gulru Necipoglu Examines architectural cosmopolitanism in the early Ottoman polity straddling Asia and Europe, by focusing on artistic interactions with neighbors (Byzantium, Latin West, Anatolian principalities, Mamluks in Syria-Egypt, Timurid-Turkmen...

Suzanne Blier This course explores a vital cluster of themes around museums and the relation between objects, knowledge, culture and society. The focus is at once contemporary practice, historical, and theoretical. A key aim is to move beyond Euro-...

Vishal Khandelwal This course explores architecture, urbanism, and design in colonial and postcolonial South Asia through the region’s interactions and exchanges with other parts of the world. Extending from early European presence in the subcontinent to...

Patricio Del Real This is a research-intensive course engaging university archives and geared to the production of an architectural exhibition.

Carrie Lambert-Beatty Is there an art history of post-truth? In this seminar-style class you will track, from the 1950s to the present, artists’ engagements with fact, authenticity, information, reality, and truth. You’ll encounter multiple modes of...

Maria Gough This workshop-style seminar, which will be taught in the Study Center of the Harvard Art Museums, foregrounds the pioneering role of textiles and other artisanal media produced by women in the development of modernist art, especially...

Joseph Koerner Sigmund Freud wrote that his patients “suffer mainly from reminiscences.” Freud and other Viennese writers, artists, and architects did too. Linking texts to monuments in Vienna, this course explores memory and the built environment...