Past Colloquia

Spring 2011

 January 21

“The Matter with Sculpture: German Romanticism and Idealism”

Prof. Catriona MacLeod, Department of Germanic Languages, Penn

January 28

“Depicting Sacred treasuries: Artistic Authority in the Earliest Visual Archives”

Prof. Ashley West, Temple University

February 4

“The Spectacle of the Face: Manet’s Portraits of Victorine Meurent”

Prof. Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University

February 18

“Building a Small Space: Miniaturization and Ritual in Late Antiquity”

Prof. Kimberly Bowes, Department of Classical Studies, Penn

February 25

“Sacrifice upon a Story: Punic Hannibal’s Great Altar at Greco-Italian Kroton”

Prof. Ann Kuttner, Department of History of Art, Penn

March 4

No Colloquium

(Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Symposium: “Strangers in a Strange Land”)

March 18

“Seeing Skulls: Paleontology, Animality, and Fin-de-Siècle Crime Fiction”

Prof. Andrea Goulet, Department of Romance Languages, Penn

March 25

“Designing Pictures for the Virtual and Floating World: An Illustrated Book, its Artists, their Publisher, and his Patrons”

Prof. Julie Nelson Davis, Department of History of Art, Penn

April 1

“Was the Land of Arata Real? Reflections on Myth as History in the Ancient Near East”

Prof. Holly Pittman, Department of History of Art, Penn

April 8

No colloquium

(Philadelphia Museum of Art Graduate Symposium)

April 15

“The Cut and Shuffle: Form and Ethics in Cézanne’s Card Players”

Prof. André Dombrowski, Department of History of Art, Penn

April 22

“Maxfield Parish’s Constructed Fantasyland”

Prof. Michael Clapper, Franklin and Marshall College