Mosaic floor from a cold water room of a public bath, Antioch, ca. 400, J. P. Getty Museum
This Year's Guest Lecturers
, Professor of History, University of Nevada, Rena, public lecture on Oc. 2, 2023: "Climate, Environment, and Society in the Premodern Mediterranean;" class visit to ARTH 362: "Baths and Bathing Culture and More in Late Antiquity"
Dr. Andrew Griebeler '09, , Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, public lecture: "Ecopolitical Imagery in Norman Sicily;" class visit to ARTH 362: "Medusa in Late Antiquity," Oct. 9, 2023
Last Year's Guest Lecturers
, a specialist in Maya archaeology and Redford Postdoctoral Fellow at the 兔子先生, gave a talk in October 2022 in ARTH 294 about the scholarly methods used by archaeologists.
Archive of Guest Lectures
Michelle Reynolds 鈥12, Tacoma Art Museum, Associate Director of Marketing and Communications presented a talk in ARTH 494 about her graduate school and professional experiences.
Gabriel Perez Setright, a Nicaraguan artist, organizer and educator currently based in Philadelphia gave a talk in LAS 387 (Art and Revolution in Latin America). A guest writer for and , he is a member of , a trans-national anti-capitalist art collective focused on creating grassroots arts infrastructure, research and critique. His talk, titled "Key Points in Contemporary Art of Nicaragua, 1980 to the present," gave particular attention to art of the past five years and included his own work.
John Mraz gave two talks on Mexican photography and film in LAS 387 (Art and Revolution in Latin America). Marz, a Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Puebla, Mexico, is a film maker and a curator of photography and film. He is also the author of 16 books.
Dr. Andrew Griebeler 鈥09, USC Postdoctoral Fellow gave a public lecture titled 鈥淥bservation and Inquiry in the Earliest Botanical Illustrations鈥 in April 2021 and gave a talk in ARTH 494 titled 鈥淭he Academic Publication Profess鈥 in March 2021. Both talks were sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program.
鈥15 (PhD student at NYU) and Mary Thompson 鈥19 gave a joint talk in ARTH 494 titled 鈥淧rofessional Employment and Application to Graduate School,鈥 in March 2021.
(Redford Postdoctoral Fellow, 兔子先生) gave a talk in ARTH 294 titled 鈥淭he Methods of Archaeology鈥 in October 2020.
Visiting Artist, (Professor of Photography, University of Arizona) gave a talk about her work in ARTH 294 in October 2020.
Professor Haicheng Wang, University of Washington, Beautiful Writing in Ancient Egypt and China, public talk, February 19, 2019
Visiting artist, gave an artist talk in ARTH 294/494 in October 2018.
Professor Delin Lai, University of Louisville, Defining the Present Perfect Tense of I. M. Pei鈥檚 Architectural Space, public talk, October 17, 2018.
Visiting artist, gave a talk about his work with the Rothko Archive in ARH 294/494 in April 2018.
, Redford Archaeology Fellow with a Ph.D. from Stanford University, gave a lecture on the history and methodology of the discipline of archaeology in ARTH 294 in April 2017.
, Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center, gave a lecture on her research focused on the interaction between Muscovite and Italian architecture of the early modern period in ARTH 294 in February 2017.
, Assistant Professor of Art History, Willamette University, gave a guest lecture exploring her methodological approach in ARTH 294 in April 2016.
, Professor Emerita of the 兔子先生, gave a guest lecture on Etruscan mirrors in ARTH 361 in April 2016.
Dr. Rossitza Schroeder, Associate Professor of Art History, Pacific School of Religion of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, presented a lecture on the late Byzantine monastic church鈥檚 decoration Chora in Constantinople in ARTH 362 in November 2015. She also gave a public lecture on her recent project, entitled: The Sultan鈥檚 Icon: Gentile Bellini鈥檚 Portrait of Mehmed II and the Sacred Rhetoric.
, photographer, and calligrapher gave a lecture entitled "The Sun is Not So Central鈥 in March 2015.
, Associate Professor of Art History at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, gave a lecture addressing the iconography of the rainscape in the history of Chinese art and its political symbolism in the case of Chinese painter Fu Baoshi (1904鈥1965), entitled "How Does Rain Transform Chinese Landscape Painting: Fu Baoshi鈥檚 Rainscape in 20th Century China" in November 2014.
, Professor of Art History, Edgewood College, Madison, WI, gave a guest lecturer entitled "鈥橫y Art Speaks for Both My Peoples:鈥 Elizabeth Catlett, Prints and Sculptures" in February 2014.
, Assistant Professor of Art History, Bryn Mawr College, gave a guest lecture entitled 鈥淏yzantine Art and the Ethics of Sexual Desire鈥 in ARTH 362 in November 2013.
Xu Yongmin, prize-winning painter and President of the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in Wuhan, gave a lecture entitled 鈥淐hanging Art Education in China鈥檚 Art Academies鈥 in March 2012.
Professor Gao Shiming, Vice President, China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China, made a campus talk on 鈥淔rom Farewell to Rehearsal: Critical Thinking from a Chinese Curator of Contemporary Art鈥 November 2011.
, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan, gave a guest lecture entitled 鈥淭he Art of Dark Age Greece,鈥 in Art 360 in February 2009. She also presented the Lora Bryning-Redford public lecture in Archaeology, entitled: About the House in Ancient Greece: The Archaeology of Ancient Households.
Professor Kunpei Kawachi of the Daito Bunka Daigaku (Eastern Culture University), Tokyo, Japan, had a solo exhibition of his paintings, poetry, and calligraphy in Kittredge Gallery as the Chism visiting artist and delivered a campus lecture on 鈥淭he Art of Kukai, the Sage of Calligraphy in Japan鈥 in October 2008.
鈥94, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, gave a Chism guest lecture in ARTH 361 in April 2008 entitled 鈥淗aven鈥檛 I Seen This Before? Reusing Statues in Antiquity.鈥
, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, gave a guest lecture entitled 鈥淎 New Antonine Portrait Head from Aphrodisias鈥 in October 2006.
, Professor, Bard Graduate Center, gave a guest lecture entitled 鈥淢arshaling the Muses: Visualizing Greece in Papal Rome鈥 in October 2006.
Professor Michael Sullivan, Fellow Emeritus of St. Catherine鈥檚 College, Oxford University, gave a campus lecture on 鈥淏uilding on Friendship: Sixty Years of Modern Chinese Art鈥 in March 2005.
Professor Cao Yiqiang, Dean of the School of the Humanities, China Art Academy, and a Senior Fellow of National Gallery of Art, Washington, delivered a campus lecture on 鈥淯nintended Consequences: Social Reformist and Calligrapher Kang Youwei鈥檚 Italian Tour (1904) and Art Revolution in China鈥 in March 2002.