Spring 2008

Franklin D. Murphy Lecturer
Seminar on American Painting

David Lubin
Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art
Wake Forest University

"About Face: WWI, Plastic Surgery,
and the American Beauty
Revolution, 1915-30"

Thursday, March 13 at 5:30 pm
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium
Reception to follow in the Central Court

"Mobilizing Art : The Visual Culture
of U.S. Intervention in the
First World War "

Friday, March 14 at 7:00 pm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Atkins Auditorium

Reiko Tomii
Independent Scholar
and Art Historian

"A Peripheral Vision: 'International Contemporaneity' in the Japanese Art Discourse, Circa 1970 "

Thursday, March 27 at 5:30 p.m.
Room 211 Spencer Museum of Art

Melissa McCormick
John J. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
Harvard University

"Becoming a Woman in Sixteenth-century Japan: Overcoming the Buddhist Paradigm of Male Transformation (henjo nanshi) through Text and Image "

Monday, April 21 at 5:15 p.m.
Room 211 Spencer Museum of Art

John Moore
Professor of Art History
Smith College

"Giuseppe Vasi's Panorama of Rome "

Thursday, April 24 at 5:00 p.m.
Room 211 Spencer Museum of Art

Fall 2007

Gary Radke
Professor of Art History
Syracuse University

"The Art and Science of Making and Restoring Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise"

Thursday, September 20 at 5:30 p.m.
Room 211 Spencer Museum of Art

Shawn Eichman
Curator of Asian Art
Honolulu Academy of Arts

"The Dragon's Gift: Contextualizing Buddhist Art in Bhutan"

Monday, September 24 at 5:00 p.m.
Room 208 Spencer Museum of Art

Patricia Junker
Curator of American Art
Seattle Art Museum

"Wartime Elegies: Childe Hassam and Marsden Hartley in 1916"

Monday, September 24 at 5:30 p.m.
Room 211 Spencer Museum of Art

Shelley Sturman
Head of Objects Conservation
National Gallery of Art, Washington

"Mystery of Creation: Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise"

Tuesday, October 2 at 5:30 p.m.
Malott Room, Kansas Union

Tracy Miller
Professor of Art History
Vanderbilt University

"From Local Girl to Empress: Godess Temples and Regional Style in Medieval Chinese Architecture"

Tuesday, October 23 at 5:15 p.m.
Pine Room, Kansas Union

2007 Murphy Distinguished Alumni Lecturer

Marla Prather

"Retrospective at Mid-Career: Some Observations on Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Art" 

Thursday, October 25 at 5:30 p.m.
Room 211 Spencer Museum of Art

Karal Ann Marling
Professor of Art History and American Studies
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

"Frankenstein on Ice: A Halloween Romance starring painter Frederic Church"

Monday, October 29 at 5:30 p.m.
Room 211 Spencer Museum of Art

Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Professor of Art History
University of California at Santa Barbara

"The Image of Desire: Femininity, Photography and the Birth of Mass Culture in Nineteenth Century France"

Wednesday, October 31 at 6:00 p.m.
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium

Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Professor Emerita of Japanese Art History
Boston University

"Human Hair in Japanese Buddhist Embroideries: Collapsing the Distinction Between the Sacred and the Profane "

Monday, November 5 at 5:15 p.m.
Room 211 Spencer Museum of Art

Leonard Folgarait
Professor of Art History
Vanderbilt University

"Photography in the Photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo"

Thursday, November 15 at 5:30 p.m.
Room 211 Spencer Museum of Art

Monica Blackmun Visona
Assistant Professor of African Art
University of Kentucky

"Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire "

Monday, November 19 at 5:00 p.m.
Room 211 Spencer Museum of Art