Atreyee Gupta book talk on her two recently published titles
Atreyee Gupta book talk on her two recently published titles
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The department encourages the crossing not only of geographic but also disciplinary borders through exploration of a wide range of fields including architecture, urban planning, critical and post-colonial theory, media studies, the sciences and social history.
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Upcoming Events
Oct
20
Monday
05:15 PM
Artist Lecture: Harmonia Rosales
Milstein Hall
Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium
Oct
23
Thursday
05:15 PM
A Conversation with Cheryl Finley and Daesha Devón Harris
Johnson Museum of Art
Robinson Lecture Hall
Oct
30
Thursday
05:15 PM
Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art: Thasnai Sethaseree
Johnson Museum of Art
Robinson Lecture Hall
'Firing the Canon'
Associate Professor Annetta Alexandridis is featured in 'Firing the Canon: The Cornell Casts and Their Discontents':
Mnemosyne: Meanderings through Aby Warburg's Atlas
Begun in 1924 and left unfinished at the time of his death in 1929, the Mnemosyne Atlas is Aby Warburg’s attempt to map the “afterlife of antiquity,” or how images of great symbolic, intellectual, and emotional power emerge in Western antiquity and then reappear and are reanimated in the art and cosmology of later times and places, from Alexandrian Greece to Weimar Germany. Focusing especially on the Renaissance, the historical period where he found the struggle between the forces of reason and unreason to be most palpable, Warburg hoped that the Mnemosyne Atlas would allow its spectators to experience for themselves the “polarities” that riddle culture and thought.
Click here to explore ten panels from the Mnemosyne Atlas.
Department News
On Beverly Buchanan: Patricia Ekpo & Ima-Abasi Okon in conversation
On Beverly Buchanan: Patricia Ekpo & Ima-Abasi Okon in conversation
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Prof. Iftikhar Dadi presents on “Abstraction and Modernism” at the Clark Art Institute
Prof. Iftikhar Dadi presents on “Abstraction and Modernism” at the Clark Art Institute
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Philip N. Sapirstein, PhD '08, Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto
Philip N. Sapirstein, PhD '08, Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto
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‘Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty’ exhibit opens Sept. 24
The outdoor exhibit celebrates the centenary of Deskaheh Levi General’s 1923 intervention on behalf of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Jolene Rickard Curates "Deskaheh in Geneva 1923-2023: Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty"
Jolene Rickard Curates "Deskaheh in Geneva 1923-2023: Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty"
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Visual Culture Colloquium with Michael Chagnon 9/30/2025
Visual Culture Colloquium with Michael Chagnon 9/30/2025
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