Nancy Um at Johns Hopkins University

Nancy Um will deliver a lecture entitled “Sifting through the Treasure Chest: Coins, Currencies, and Material Exchange across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans at the Cusp of the Eighteenth Century” at Johns Hopkins University’s department of Art History. This talk will take place on November 2, 2021 via Zoom, it is open to the public but registration is required. More information can be found here.

New exhibition “Topographies: Changing Conceptions of The American Landscape” opens October 8th at Binghamton University Art Museum

Curated by Tom McDonough, Adjunct Curator and Associate Professor of Art History, with Clarissa Agate ’22, Shannon Doherty ’21, Sofia Fahsi ’22 and Luke McNamara ’22.

This exhibition explores the shifting artistic representation of national geographies and environments from the mid-19th through the late 20th century. Outstanding works on loan from the Art Bridges Foundation will provide thematic foci supported by art drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection.

Opening reception is Friday, October 8, 5:00 – 7:00 PM. Additional programming can be found here.

Next VizCult talk: Marisa Mandabach, History of Art and Architectecture, University of Hamburg, “Nature, Technology, and the Human in Ruben’s Scenes of Spontaneous Generation”. Wednesday, October 6

VizCult
The Art History Department Speaker Series
2021 Fall Semester

presents

Marisa Mandabach
Professor
Art History, University of Hamburg

“Nature, Technology, and the Human in Ruben’s Scenes of Spontaneous Generation”

Wednesday 06 October
5:00 PM in FA 143

This lecture will be held in person. Masks are required for all attendees.

Nancy Um at Princeton University

A 17th century Arabian silver coin found at a farm in Middletown, R.I. by metal detectorist Jim Bailey. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Nancy Um will deliver a lecture entitled “Everyone Loves a Good Pirate Tale: On the ‘Discovery’ of a Seventeenth-Century Yemeni Coin in Rhode Island” at Princeton University, sponsored by the department & program in Near Eastern Studies. This talk will take place on October 11, 2021 at 12:00 PM via zoom, it is open to the public and more information can be found here.