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CAMLab Distinguished Lecture: "The Formation of the Thousand Buddha Cliff at Shentong Temple"

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Speaker: Professor Qingquan Li, Shandong University This lecture examines the Thousand Buddha Cliff at Shentong Temple, a rock-cut Buddhist site dating to the early Tang dynasty, through a formal analysis of its spatial and visual characteristics. It...

Spring 2018

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Freshman Seminar 61v Dada and Bauhaus: 100 years Benjamin Buchloh Tuesday, 1-3pm This seminar takes its departure from the fact that Dada and Bauhaus, two of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century, have been recently celebrated and...

On Materiality and Presence in Buddhist Visual Culture

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Speaker: Eric Huntington (Rice University) Please RVSP here to attend in person. Please register here to participate on Zoom. This event is generously co-sponsored by the Committee on the Study of Religion, the Mahindra Humanities Center, and the...

The Power of Memorials and Public Art: Complex Histories and Legacies Today

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Join Facing History & Ourselves for a special community event celebrating Boston’s newest memorial, The Embrace. This memorial, dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, is located on Freedom Plaza where the names of local civil rights...

Shifting the Paradigm: New Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Professor Gülru Necipoğlu

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Shifting the Paradigm: New Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Professor Gülru Necipoğlu September 8-9, 2022 Join us for a celebration of Professor Gülru Necipoğlu’s thirty-five years of teaching at Harvard University. We will gather for...

The Pain of Others: In quest of a lexicon

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This talk will center around the arch of Nilima Sheikh’s artistic practices followed by a conversation Vishal Khandelwal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History of Art + Architecture, Harvard Universityand Sonal Khullar, W. Norman Brown Associate...

PERFORMA Biennial 2025: Aria Dean and Carrie Lambert-Beatty in conversation

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As part of the PERFORMA Biennial 202 5, Professor of HAA and AFVS Carrie Lambert-Beatty and artist Aria Dean will discuss nationalism, postmodernism, fiction, form, and many meanings of the word projection in relation to The Color Scheme (2025), Dean's...

Ise Jingū in the Anthropocene: Shrine Reconstruction and Japan’s Forests

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Ise Jingū in the Anthropocene: Shrine Reconstruction and Japan's Forests Speaker: Jordan Sand, Professor of History, Georgetown University Moderator: Yukio Lippit, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of History of Art and Architecture...

Gender and Buddhist Art in Asia: Embodiment, Patronage, and the Sacred (2 day conference)

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Gender and Buddhist Art in Asia: Embodiment, Patronage, and the Sacred June 2-3, Harvard University, via zoom. Register here We are pleased to announce the inaugural conference of the newly formed Collective on Gender, Religion, and the Arts of Asia. This...

Fall 2018

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Freshman Seminar 31m In Pursuit of the Ordinary: Genre Painting in Boston-Area Museums Joseph Koerner Tuesday 12-2:45pm This course focuses chiefly on “genre” pictures: that is, depictions, mostly painted on canvas or panel, of everyday life. Examining...

MAA 2025 Annual Meeting: Celebrating 100 Years

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The Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 20-22 March 2025, hosted by Harvard University in collaboration with Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis...

"Bench Presses", with Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and Hal Foster

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Thursday, April 22, 6:00pm ET Bench Presses, with Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and Hal Foster To register, click here “Art Books, Book Art, Art” is convened by Joe Bucciero and Mostafa Heddaya, with support from the Department of Art &...