Return Emigrations: Architectural Cross-Currents in Postwar Germany and America
Thursday, January 24, 2008 | 6:30PM
special department lectures & events
Location: Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street
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Return Emigrations: Architectural Cross-Currents in Postwar Germany and America
Friday, January 25, 2008 | 9:00AM - 5:30PM
special department lectures & events
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall
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Sculpture from Chartres and St. Denis: New pieces of the puzzle
Charles Little, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 | 6:30PM
robert branner forum
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

Chelsea Foxwell
Decadence: Japanese Painting in the Age of Japonisme
Thursday, January 31, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Giulia Paoletti
Photographic Representations of African Metropolis. A Case Study: The Depth of Field
Thursday, February 7, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Art, Religion and Politics at the Ancient Maya City of Tikal: A look at public and private art and its role in society
William A. Haviland
Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont
Thursday, February 7, 2008 | 7:00PM
Location: 930 Schermerhorn Hall
university seminar in the arts of africa, oceania, and the americas
Note: Wine and Cheese from 6:30 - 7:30PM, Those wishing to do so may join us for dinner with the speaker after the presentation.

Caecilia Pieri
Baghdad, Cyclical Destruction/Reconstruction: The Urban Space as a Metaphor
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 6:15PM
collins/kaufmann forum
Location: 930 Schermerhorn

Professor Cordula Grewe
Conversions
Thursday, February 14, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Katherine Morris
Villard Bound and Unbound(ed):The 1935 Hahnloser Facsimile and the Bauhüttenbuch Style
Thursday, February 21, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Rilke, Cézanne and the Origins of Introjection
Brigid Doherty, Princeton University
Monday, February 25, 2008 | 6:00PM
bettman lecture series
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

Department Open House
Have an interest in art history? Come to the Department of Art History and Archaeology's open house, Thursday February 28th, from 12-2pm in the student lounge, 8th Floor Schermerhorn Hall. Meet Art History faculty, peruse the Wallach Art Gallery Exhibition, "Women and Print-Making" and meet the Visual Media Center staff to learn about technological advances in art historical research and preservation. In addition, representatives of the student group, Art History Underground will be there.
Thursday, February 28, 2008 | 12:00-2:00PM
special department lectures & events
Location: Common Room, 820-825 Schermerhorn Hall

Lorenzo Buonanno
More Than Michelangelo: Observations On The Visual Sources And Interpretation Of Jacopo Sansovino's 'Saint James The Greater' In Florence Cathedral
Thursday, February 28, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Fountains, Apses and The Meaning of Water
Prof. Dr. Beat Brenk
Chair for Early Christian and Medieval Archaeology
University di Roma 1, 'La Sapienza'
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | 6:00PM
special department lectures & events
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

Gabriella Szalay
Reading the End of Time: Margaret of York's Book of Revelation
Thursday, March 6, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Worn and Inhabited Images: Ab'buu Adekai and Funerary Practices among the Ga of Ghana
Dr. Roberta Bonetti
Thursday, March 6, 2008 | 7:00PM
university seminar in the arts of africa, oceania, and the americas
Location: 930 Schermerhorn Hall
Note: Wine and Cheese from 6:30 - 7:30PM
Those wishing to do so may join us for dinner with the speaker after the presentation.

Professors Esther Pasztory and Susan Vogel
An Interview and Dialogue,"Why Ancient America?
Thursday, March 13, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Breaking the Rules. Architecture as Science in Late Medieval Germany
Professor Norbert Nußbaum, Universität zu Köln
Friday, March 14, 2008 | 6:30PM
robert branner forum
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

Opening Reception for Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculptures from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 | 5:00 - 7:00PM
Location: Wallach Art Gallery

Subhashini Kaligotla
Aestheticizing the Commonplace: Mundane Objects From India and Their New Lives in Visual Art
Thursday, March 27, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Pictures in Transit: Matter and Migration from Audubon to Johns
Jennifer Roberts, Harvard University
Monday, March 31, 2008 | 6:00PM
bettman lecture series
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

Professor Francesco De Angelis
Emotions in the Funerary Context: Etruria and Rome
Thursday, April 3, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Tina Rivers
'La Fée Verte' of Modernity: Manet's Absinthe Drinker
Thursday, April 10, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Docile Deviance: Reevaluating Synagoga and Ecclesia
Nina Rowe, Fordham University
Thursday, April 10, 2008 | 6:30PM
robert branner forum
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio. The Obizzi Saga
Professor Irma Jaffe, Fordman University
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 | 6:00PM
special department lectures & events
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall

Evan Neely
Maieutic and Ethical Strands in American Literature and Art
Thursday, April 17, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

Africa via China
Professor Jonathan Hay
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Thursday, April 17, 2008 | 7:00PM
university seminar in the arts of africa, oceania, and the americas
Location: 934 Schermerhorn Hall
Note: Wine and Cheese from 6:30 - 7:00PM
Those wishing to do so may join us for dinner with the speaker after the presentation.

Book Release Party
Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage
by Brenden W. Joseph
Friday, April 18, 2008 | 7:00PM
special department lectures & events
Location: Greene Naftali Gallery
508 West 26th Street, 8th Floor

Phoebe Segal
Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Writing My Dissertation
Thursday, April 24, 2008 | 6:00PM
columbia art history grad colloquium
Location: 832 Schermerhorn Hall

The Transfigured Mountain. The Sacred Landscape of the Sinai Desert and the Icons of Saint Catherine's Monastery
Gerhard Wolf, Max-Planck-Institut
Monday, April 28, 2008 | 6:00PM
bettman lecture series
Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall