History of Art and Architecture

Past Events

Upcoming Events
Wed
Feb
22
2023

Body Politics: Modernizing the Body at German Hygiene Exhibitions, 1911-1930

This talk considers two "orans" sculptures produced for German hygiene exhibitions, to examine the ways they reflect changing ideas about the body informed by different paradigms of science and visuality.

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Wed
Feb
08
2023

Art History in the Age of Artificial Image Generation

Please join us in a conversation about computational image generation technologies which output lively, synthesized digital images from text-based, user-provided prompts.

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Wed
Feb
01
2023

Writing With Things: Revising ‘Foundations of Art History’

Significant work has been undertaken to revise and reconceptualize the required core foundations course for the History of Art and Architecture major.

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Wed
Jan
25
2023

The Question of "Animal" Art

Do animals other than humans make what some humans call “art”? 

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Wed
Jan
18
2023

Modern Microscopy and Image Analysis

Modern microscopy and image analysis greatly benefits from and relies on the development of digitalization and data interpretation.

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Wed
Jan
11
2023

Welcoming the Spring Semester

The first installment of the Spring 2023 Colloquium welcomes in the Spring 2023 semester.

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Fri
Dec
09
2022

HAA Winter Graduation Celebration

Please join the Department of History of Art & Architecture in the Frick Fine Arts cloister for our winter graduation celebration/reception to honor our December graduates.

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Wed
Dec
07
2022

CANCELLED: The Oppositional Landscape Photography of Charles “Teenie” Harris

In this colloquium, graduate student Kale Serrato Doyen will present her MA thesis titled The Oppositional Landscape Photography of Charles “Teenie” Harris.

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Wed
Nov
30
2022

Constellations Track: Alone Together/Shelter in Place

In this conversation, Scott and Alex will discuss each other’s recent exhibitions, consider how their processes of making were shaped by conditions of social distancing, and reflect upon the encounter of their work at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art.

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Thu
Nov
17
2022

Reading in Community: The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

HAA faculty and graduate students will gather to discuss selections from the twentieth-anniversary edition of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz. 

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