FSU College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance Presents: The Vincent and Mary Agnes Thursby
Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series
Upcoming Lectures
Check back in January for information on Spring lectures.
Previous Lectures
(most recent first)
Frederick Bohrer
Associate Professor of Art at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland
"Photography, Worldliness, and the Middle East: Then and Now."
November 13, 2007
Helen Evans
Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
"The Holy Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai: Responses to a Sacred Space"
November 1, 2007
Michael Leja
Professor of American Art, University of Pennsylvania
"Winslow Homer and the Composite Image"
Keynote Lecture, 25th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium
February 23, 2007
Terence Riley
Director, Miami Art Museum
"Modern in a Post-Modern World"
February 1, 2007
William E. Wallace
Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History Washington University
"Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat"
November 28, 2006
Lucille Roussin
"Art Stolen, Art Reclaimed, Art Returned?"
October 19, 2006
Christina Kiaer
Associate Professor of Art History, Northwestern University
"Modern Soviet Art Meets America, 1935"
April 13, 2006
Eugene Y. Wang
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University
"Thinking Outside the Nesting Boxes: Buddhist Reliquaries
from a Ninth-Century Chinese Crypt"
March 2, 2006
W. J. T. Mitchell
Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Art History
and English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
"Sacred Images and the Holy War on Terror:
Meyer Schapiro's 'Theme of State' Today"
Keynote lecture, 24th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium, February 10, 2006
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
"Arcimboldo's Serious Jokes and the Origins of Still Life Painting"
October 13, 2005
Thomas Cummins
Dumbarton Oaks Professor, History of Pre-Columbian & Colonial Art, Harvard University
"Neither one nor the other but a third’: The Importance of Genre
as Difference in Latin American Colonial Art"
Keynote lecture, 24th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Feb.25, 2005
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, University of Texas at Austin
"The Queen of Heaven and Her Bishop: Piety in Late Fifteenth Century Germany"
January 27, 2005
Thomas Sokolowski
Director, The Andy Warhol Museum
"Andy Warhol: The Art of Camouflage"
January 14, 2005
Kristine Stiles
Associate Professor of Art History, Duke University
"Crazy Horse and the Pottery Barn: Mapping the Enduring Nature and Changing States of Art Through Equine Imagery"
November 18, 2004