Fall 2024

Jennifer Roberts Centering on the response of photographers and conceptual artists in the 1970s to the Apollo program, but ranging throughout the world history of artistic engagement with the moon, this experimental course will explore what it might mean...

coleman jordan The spatial containment, confinement, and control of African American and African Brazilian populations represent a complex trajectory from historical enslavement to contemporary challenges. This course explores the evolution of spatial...

Suzanne Blier Harvard Square has a rich history; under its earlier name of Newtowne (founded in 1630), it was once the site of the Massachusetts capital. Much has changed. This class looks back on the many changes Harvard Square has undergone, recent...

Kaja Tally-Schumacher This course investigates the myriad ways ancient Roman place-making, visual culture, and thought have been evoked, utilized, weaponized, and translated in North American thought, design, and visual history. Our investigation...

David Roxburgh The pro-seminar examines cities and monuments built in Greater Iran and Central Asia from the late 10th through early 15th centuries, spanning three principal dynastic periods (Seljuq, Mongol, and Timurid). Various functional types—mosques...

Felipe Pereda The art of the Spanish Golden Age is well known for its radical naturalism, on the one hand, and its intense religious imagery, on the other. This course will be an introduction to the major artists of this period – Murillo, Velázquez...

Jeffrey Hamburger The course — for which there are no prerequisites of any kind — considers the development of European architecture from antiquity to the present, with emphasis on the architecture of the High Middle Ages (12th and 13th centuries) as well...

Carrie Lambert-Beatty This class is about encountering the art of your time. In HAA 17K, you will learn why visual artists today have such a different range of choices than counterparts in other periods have had. You'll get answers to some big questions...

Melissa McCormick This first-year seminar examines the history, culture, and practice of the Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu) and its reception in the United States and beyond. What began as a ritualized preparation of tea developed into a wide-ranging...

Evridiki Georganteli Objects are essential primary sources for the study of the past. They are imbued with tales of their makers, of societies in which they took shape, of customs and beliefs that lent them meaning, and of routes that facilitated their...