Fall 2012
APRIL
2012
- 4/4/12 - Professor
Joseph Manca's HART 360 Class visited a 19th century home that was once
owned by William Marsh Rice. Please click on this link
for more details!
- 4/10/12 - Cynthia Hahn,
Department of Art, Hunter College
- "Lively Art: The Medieval
Cross Reliquary"
- 4 pm, Rayzor Hall 123
- For more information, please click here.
- For photos, click
here.
- 4/13/12 - Undergraduate
Career Workshop
- 1 :00-3:00pm, Herring Hall
100
- For more information, please click here.
- 4/16/12 - Eleanor K.
Grebowski, Presentation of Honors Thesis
- "The Pantheon: Dynamics of
Power and Imperial Apotheosis from Augustus to Trajan"
- 4 pm, Herring 124
- For more information,
please click here.
MARCH
2012
- 3/12/12 - Susan T.
Stevens, Professor & Chair of the Classics Department, Randolph
College
- " Archaeology & the
Preservation of Cultural Heritage in the Arab Spring"
- 4 pm - 6 pm, 309 Sewall Hall
- This event is organized for
the Program in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations by John Hopkins (Post-Doc,
Department of Art History) and Michael Maas (Professor, Department of
History). The Arab Spring has raised many questions about the past and
future of North Africa and and the Middle East. With this short
symposium we hope to better understand how this change will effect
the excavation, study and preservation of ancient monuments and
artifacts in the area and to put a spotlight on the overall concern for
the preservation of cultural heritage. While this particular
symposium focuses on antiquity, the question is important for all periods
and cultures that might be a concern--Antique, Late Antique, Islamic,
Arab. For more information, please click here.
- 3/26/12 - Juliann Vitullo,
Associate Director, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona
State University
- "Slaves and Princesses:
Eastern Women in the Everyday Life and Fiction of Early Modern
Italy"
- 4:30 pm, Humanities 117
- This event is sponsored by the
Humanities Research Center - Medieval & Early Modern Workshop.
- For more information, please click here
- For photos, please click here
- 3/29/12 - Michael J Lewis,
Deputy Head, Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, British
Museum
- "Medieval Pilgrim Badges:
Functional Tourist Tat"
- 4 pm, Rayzor Hall 123
- For more information,
please click here.
- For photos, please click here.
Spring 2011
Rice/Menil Lecture Series: The Risible Visual Humor & Art
March 8, 2011 - Simon Critchley - "The Really Funny Thing About Tragedy"
March 14, 2011 - Kara Walker - "Kara Walker Speaks About Her Art"
Art History Lectures:
April 14, 2011 - Julia K Murray - Mysteries of the Kongzhai: Relics & Representations at a Shrine to Confucius
April 15, 2011 - Asa Mittman - Medieval Monsters & Modern Monster Studies
Fall 2010
November
4th-6th 2010
Surrealism and the Americas
Conference
This conference focuses on the interactions and patterns of influence among
surrealist artists and collectors within the Americas that have been
marginalized within dominant narratives of Surrealism and European Exile. For
more information click here.
Rice/Menil Lecture Series: The Risible Visual Humor & Art
October 19, 2010 - John Clark - "The Places of Humor in Roman Visual Culture: Contexts and Theories"
December 6, 2010 - Michael Leja - "Cosmic Modernism"
Spring 2010
March 14th-15th 2010
Crossing Borders: Visualizing Jewish/Christian and Jewish/Muslim Relations in Medieval and Early Modern Times.
The goal of this conference is to bring together specialists in
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Studies in order to explore how art
architecture, and material culture illuminate the complex ways in which
Jews interacted with their neighbors. For more information click here.
February 19, 2010
Museums and the Medical Humanities: Our Continuing Conversation.
"Museums and the Medical Humanities: Our Continuing Conversation" is
a day long symposium that will extend the discussion generated by the
2008-2009 Menil-Rice Lecture Series on "Museums and the Medical
Humanities: The Arts of Transformation." The program will explore a
nexus of themes concerning emobodiment, creativity, trauma, diagnosis,
medicine, healing, reflection, and transformation. Additional Information
Fall 2009
November 17, 2010
The Two Faces of Cleopatra
A
program sponsored by Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations brings guest
lecturer Jennifer Gates-Foster from the Department of Classics at UT
Austin to present on the image of Cleopatra.
Turner and the "Conception of the Swamp'd World": Writing about Romantic Decline in 2009Presented by Dr. Leo Costello
Department of Art History, Friday Brown Bag Lunch Series
Presented by Dr. Diana Prescuitti, Dr. Susan Huang, Dr. Maria Elena Versari, and Dr. Alexander Mishory
Melancholy, The Modernist Threat: On Bingy's Recent Projects
Presented by Artist Bingyi Huang
The Heroic Themes and Popular Culture: The Lively World of 19th Century Persian Tilework and Teh Shah's Wardrobe: Textiles from Safavid Iran
Presented with the MFAH, by Dr. Francesca Leoni, Dr. Jennifer M. Scarce, and Dr. Hadi Seif.
Emerging Disciplines: A one day humanities symposium presenting intellectual collaborations among disciplines schools outside the humanities, such as music, computer science, and economics.
Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and Rice University's Humanities Research center. Presented by Dr. Hermann Herlinghaus, Dr. Aniruddh D. Patel, Dr. Mary Poovey, Dr. Todd Presener, Dr. Pamela Sheingorn, and Dr. Daniel Smail.
Second Biennial David B. Warren Symposium: American Material Culture and the Texas Experience: Art and Architecture before 1900 in Texas, the South, and the Southwest
Five distinguished scholars place the pre-1900 art and architecture of Texas, the lower South, and the Southwest within a national and international context.