Spring 2018

Works of Art: Materials, Forms, Histories Maria Gough Wednesday, 11-1pm A series of team-taught workshops designed to sharpen skills in the observation, analysis, and historical interpretation of works of art and architecture.

Buddhist Monuments of the World Yukio Lippit, Jinah Kim, Eugene Wang Tuesday, 1-3pm This graduate seminar examines architectural monuments of the Buddhist world, including sites in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, Central Asia, China, Korea, and...

Buddhist Cave Visualization Eugene Wang Thursday, 1-3pm The caves at Dunhuang are among the largest Buddhist cave complexes in the world, spanning the fourth to the fourteenth century. With 492 caves decorated with murals and sculptures, Dunhuang is the...

The Contemporary Carrie Lambert-Beatty Thursday, 3-5pm Graduate seminar exploring the intersection of the field of art history with the globalized art world. What is "contemporary art" - in theory, in practice, and in history?

Minding Making: Art History and Artisinal Intelligence Jennifer Roberts, Ethan Lasser Tuesday, 1-3pm If the artisanal and technical skills behind artmaking are forms of knowledge, how can (or should) that knowledge be integrated into the analytical...

Picturing America: Photography, Race, and Citizenship Sarah Lewis Monday, 3-5pm What images have had agency and persuasive efficacy in the contestation of racial inequality and social justice in the United States? This course, open to graduate students as...

Antiquity in Ruins: The Renaissance Imaginary Cammy Brothers (Northeastern) Monday, 1-3pm Why and when did broken things come to be valued as objects of aesthetic appreciation? The seminar begins with Petrarch and his idea of fragments, and follows the...

At Cross Purposes: The Crusades in Material Culture Eurydice Georganteli Monday, 1-3pm 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...

Illustrating the Word: Images from the Byzantine World Ioli Kalavrezou Wednesday, 1-3pm The seminar will study illustrated manuscripts that were produced in the Byzantine world from the 9th to the 15th century. Most of them are books, which contain...

Early Print Culture: Representations of the Islamic East Joseph Koerner, Gulru Necipoglu Thursday, 3-5pm Explores depictions of the Islamic East by European printmakers circa 1450 - 1600 and reciprocal construction of “Europe” through these and other...