Past Events
September 2007
Thursday 06 September
5-7 pm: Preview reception
Current Concerts: Recent Work by Art Faculty
Monday 10 September
"A Brief Historiography of Islamic Architecture"5:30-6:45 pm
006 Williard Hall
Nasser Rabbat is Aga Khan Professor of the History of Islamic Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Tuesday 11 September
"The Victorian Book Goes to Hollywood"
Margaret Stetz
2 pmMark Samuels Lasner Collection
115A Morris Library
October 2007
Tuesday 02 October
"Curating Contemporary Culture"Laura Heon
First lecture in a series on curating contemporary culture given by Laura Heon, a director/curator in Santa Fe, NM
http://www.udel.edu/art/news/index.htm
5:30 pm—Smith Hall 130
Wednesday 03 October
"Summer Work Project Talk"
Kate Wight will discuss her summer internship in Objects Conservation at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.3:45 pm—Winterthur Museum & Country Estate Rotunda
Friday 05 October
"Photographic Messages from Iraq: M. Ho and Roland Barthes"Karen Beckman, Jaffe Associate Professor of History of Art
3:30 pm—Rich Seminar Room, Jaffe Building, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday 10 October
"Summer Work Project Talk"
Jessica Keister will discuss her summer internship in Photograph Conservation at the Harvard University Library and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge, MA.4:00 pm—Winterthur Museum & Country Estate Rotunda
Thursday 11 October
5-7 pm Preview
Focus on Photography: Two Exhibitions
Wednesday 17 October
"Curating Exhibitions"
Wendy Wick Reaves
Wendy Wick Reaves is a curator of prints and drawings at the National Portrait Gallery and will be discussing her experiences there.1:30 pm—205 Gore Hall
Wednesday 17 October
"Summer Work Project Talk"Lauren McMullen will discuss her summer internship in Objects Conservation at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA.
4:00 pm—Winterthur Museum & Country Estate Rotunda
Wednesday 17 October
"The Nobel Prize: Prizes in Natural Science"Prominent UD faculty will discuss the research and careers of the recent Nobel Prize winner in the areas of natural science. Refreshments will be provided.
12:00 pm
Wednesday 17 October
"Social Responsibility Through Community Support: Where Passion Meets Purpose"Joi Gordon is the CEO of Dress for Success Worldwide, an international grassroots organization that has provided professional attire, support and career development tools to more than 400,000 disadvantaged women since 1997.
7:00 pm—Trabant Theater
Thursday 18 October
The Annual Paul R. Jones Lecture: CANCELLEDFloyd Coleman, a professor of Art and Art History at Howard University, will give a lecture discussing his work and research.
5:00 pm—Trabant Theater
Friday 19 October
"Recent Research on Slavery and the Renaissance World"Carl Strehlke, Adjunct Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection,
Philadelphia Museum of Art3:30 pm—Rich Seminar Room, Jaffe Building, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday 23 October
"Translation and the American Renaissance: Questioning Authorship and Language in Hawthorne and Melville" and "Fundamental Unity and Essential Difference: William Dean Howells’ ‘Burlesque of Humanity"Kate Hand and Melanie Scriptunas
2:00 pm—Memorial 049
Wednesday 24 October
"The Nobel Prize: Prizes in Literature, Peace, and Economics"
Prominent UD faculty will discuss the research and careers of the recent Nobel Prize winner in the areas of literature, peace, and economics. Refreshments will be provided.12:00-2 pm
Wednesday 24 October
"Summer Work Project Talk"
Lisa Duncan will discuss her summer internship in Photograph Conservation at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ.4:00 pm—Winterthur Museum & Country Estate Rotunda
Thursday 25 October
"Literature and Identity in 18th and 19th Century Spain and Latin America"
Part of an area studies research lecture series featuring Alex Selimov, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware.12:30 pm—Gore Hall 303
(302) 831-1929
Thursday 25 October
"The 17th Annual Open House"Tour the Graphic Communications Center.
2:00 pm—222 South Chapel Street
(302) 831-2153
Friday 26 October
"Beyond the Body: The Female Nude in Edvard Munch’s Late Work, 1912-1944"Dissertation colloquium. Allison Chang will discuss the late work of Edvard Munch.
3:30 pm— Rich Seminar Room, Jaffe Building, University of Pennsylvania
Monday 29 October
"Rock ‘N’ Roll and the USSR"
The Slavic Club will host this unique lecture.7:00 pm—Trabant University Center, Room C
(512) 970-7032
Tuesday 30 October
"Curating Contemporary Culture"
Ivo Mesquita, Independent Curator
Second lecture in a series on curating contemporary culture given by Ivo Mesquita, an independent curator in Sao Paulo, Brazil.http://www.udel.edu/art/news/index.htm
5:30 pm—Smith Hall 130
Wednesday 31 October
"Summer Work Project Talk"Erica Cooney and Cynthia Schwarz will discuss their summer internship in Paintings Conservation at the Chateau de Parentignat, D’Auvergne, France.
4:00 pm—Winterthur Museum & Country Estate Rotunda
Wednesday 31 October—"A Modern History of Malay Girlhood: From Sisters to Seducers in One Generation"
Patricia Sloane-White will lecture on Malay girlhood.
12:20 pm—Gore Hall 103
(302) 831-8474
November 2007
Thursday 01 November**
"Ishmael Reed: An Exhibition"Morris Library, Special Collections Exhibition Gallery
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9 am–5pm;Thursday, 9 am-8 pm
(302) 831-BOOK
Thursday 01 November**
"Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy"
Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 11 am–4 pm;Wednesday 11 am–8 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 1 pm–4 pm
Mechanical Hall
www.udel.edu/museums/
(302) 831-8242
Thursday 01 November
"Writing After Printing, or How Printing Invents Manuscript"A talk given by world-renowned scholar in book history and material culture, Peter Stallybrass
4:00 pm—Gore Hall 222
Friday 02 November
"Winslow Homer, the Composite Image, and the Industrial Production of Pictures"Michael Leja, Professor of History of Art (American Art), University of Pennsylvania
3:30 pm—Rich Seminar Room, Jaffe Building, University of Pennsylvania
Friday 02 November–Sunday 09 December
Focus on Photography: Two Exhibitions
"Bill Brandt: Shadow of Light""Recent Gifts of Photography to University Museums"
The Gallery
Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 11 am–4 pm;Wednesday, 11 am–8 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 1 pm–4 pm
www.udel.edu/museums/
(302) 831-8242
Monday 05 November
"The Irony of Obedience to Law"
Professor Steve Wexler from the University of British Columbia School of Law will lecture on this topic.3:30 pm—Kirkbride Hall 206
(302) 831-2359
Tuesday 06 November
"Faith and Fear among American Quakers during Pontiac's War: John Woolman's meeting with Indians"Geoffrey Plank, University of Cincinnati, History in Technology, Society and Culture Lecture Series
12:15 pm—Munroe Hall 203
Wednesday 07 November
"Home Influences and 'Home Joys': American Women in World War I and the Re-creation of America Overseas"Jennifer Vess will lecture on this topic.
12:20 pm—Gore Hall 103
(302) 831-8474
Thursday 08 November
"Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: Women's Extreme Adventure Stories"Maureen Corrigan, Georgetown University
7:00 pm—Trabant University Center Theatre
Friday 09 November
"Redon, Color, and Vision in the Nineteenth Century"Dissertation colloquium. Isabel Suchanek
3:30 pm—Rich Seminar Room, Jaffe Building, University of Pennsylvania
Saturday 10 November
“Fall Fashion Event”
Presented by UDress Magazine
7:00 pm—Trabant University Series, Multipurpose Room
(908) 591-6063
Tuesday 13 November
"Art and Activism: Researching, Creating and Supporting the Other"A talk presented by Gayle Brandeis, a recipient of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction for The Book of Dead Birds.
7:00 pm–9:00 pm—Cecil College, Milburn Stone Theatre, North East, Maryland
Wednesday 14 November
"Dear Female Heart: Melancholy Gender and the Poetry of Stevie Smith"
12:20 pm–1:10 pm—Gore Hall 103
With April Pelt
Wednesday 14 November
"Museums Still in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums"
With Mary Alexander4:00 pm–6:00 pm—Old College 202
Thursday 15 November
"Reading and Writing the Public and the Personal: African-American Women's Writings in antebellum Philadelphia"Associate Professor Erika Armstrong Dunbar from the Department of History at UD will lecture on this topic.
12:15 pm—Trabant University Center 205
(302) 831-2897
Monday 19 November
"Islam in HipHop Theater"
Summer Hill’s Steven Akbar will lecture on this topic.6:00 pm—Purnell Hall 115
(732) 801-7390
Wednesday 28 November
"Physics of Piano"
With Nick Giordano, Department of Physics, Purdue University4:00 pm—Gore Hall 104
Thursday 29 November
"Novela Policiaca (Detective Novel) in Latin America"Persephone Braham, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at UD, will lecture on this topic as part of the Area Studies Research Lecture Series
12:30 pm—Gore Hall 303
(302) 831-1929
Friday 30 November
"The City as Canvas: Five Exemplary Artists and Bombay, 1965-1995"
Dissertation colloquium. Beth Citron3:30 pm—Rich Seminar Room, Jaffe Building, University of Pennsylvania
December 2007
Tuesday 04 December
"Curating Contemporary Culture"Hon Hanru
Third lecture in a series on curating contemporary culture, given by Hon Hanru, the Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute.
http://www.udel.edu/art/news/index.htm5:30 pm—130 Smith Hall
Wednesday 05 December
"Content Analysis of Fashion and Beauty Magazines: A Cross-Cultural Study between the US and South Korea"With Jaehee Jung
12:20 pm–1:10 pm—Gore Hall 103
Friday 07 December
"The Portrait Business in Revolutionary France"Amy Fruend, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC
3:30 pm—Rich Seminar Room, Jaffe Building, University of Pennsylvania
January 2008
Tuesday January 15—Wednesday March 26**
Atget to Zorn: The University Collects (Old College)
Works on paper, sculpture, and photography from the University Collection. The exhibition traces key developments in art from 1855 to the present while recognizing the rich and varied history of collecting at the University. Included in the exhibition is work by Mary Cassatt, Auguste Rodin, Thomas Moran, Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Hine, Kathe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, John Sloan, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Lee Krasner, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Ida Appelbroog, Rockwell Kent, Diego Rivera, Anders Zorn, and others.
Opens Tuesday January 22**
In Remembrance: Artists from the Paul R. Jones Collection
An exhibition honoring the art and lives of Benny Andrews, John Biggers, Ernest Crichlow, Michael Ellison, Reginald Gammon, Earl Hooks, Gwendolyn Knight-Lawrence, Alvin Loving, Eugene Martin, Hayward Oubre, John Riddle, Charles Searles and Alvin Smith.
Mechanical Hall
Wednesday February 13
OPENING RECEPTION FOR BOTH EXHIBITIONS
5-7 pm—Mechanical Hall
Sunday January 13—Thursday March 27**
Luis Gonzalez Palma
Photographs and collages by contemporary Guatemalan photographer Luis Gonzalez Palma. Palma's work combines mythic symbols of his country's Mayan past with references to the social, religious and political history of Guatemala. The exhibition will be complemented with an installation selected from the University's collection of Pre-Columbian ceramics.
Old College
February 2008
Wednesday 13 February
Atget to Zorn: The University Collects
In Remembrance: Artists from the Paul R. Jones Collection
5-7 pm. Opening reception. University museums
Monday 25 February
A Victorian Semester: The Victorian Relationship with Ireland
Bernard McKenna, UD English
7:30 pm—Kirkbride 006
Thursday 28 February
Presenting Faith Ringgold, artist, activist, author, teacher and parent
"Faith Ringgold: More than 50 Years"4:00-5:30 pm—Performing Arts Center Recital Hall, Women's Studies
March 2008
Monday 10 March
A Victorian Semester: The Pre-Raphaelites
Margaretta Frederick, Delaware Art Museum
followed by Ken Russell's Victorian-Gothic film on Rossetti, "Dante's Inferno"
7:30 pm—Kirkbride 006
Wednesday 19 March
"Sustainability: A Designers Perspective"
Lynda Grose, who has had a 25 year career in the fashion industry, will discuss her research on the design of socially and environmentally advanced textiles.
7 pm—Trabant multipurpose room
Monday 24 March
A Victorian Semester: Britain’s Experience in India
Ray Callahan, UD History
7:30 pm—Kirkbride 006
April
Saturday 12 April
6th Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
9 am-5 pm—Copland Lecture Hall, Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
Monday 14 April
A Victorian Semester: Victorian Women Artists
Margaret Stetz, UD English/Women’s Studies/ Humanities
followed by the film "Miss Potter"
7:30 pm—Kirkbride 006
Friday 25 April & Saturday 26 April
"Objects in Motion: Art and Material Culture across Colonial North America"
Clayton Hall
May
Monday 5 May
A Victorian Semester: Victorians Imagining Africa
Heidi Kaufman, UD English
followed by the film "King Solomon's Mines"7:30 pm—Kirkbride 006
Friday 16 May
"Commonplace Yet Extraordinary: Design Histories of Everyday Objects"
A symposium addressing the historical design processes that created such everyday objects as appliances, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous things commonly used in homes, offices, factories, and public spaces.
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware
Saturday 17 May & Sunday 18 May
2008 Philadelphia Book Festival
A celebration of books, publishing, reading, and writing. Exhibitors include publishers, booksellers, independent authors, technology representatives, literacy and cultural organizations.
11:00 am–5:00 pm
Free Library of Philadelphia (Central Branch) 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA
Ongoing Exhibits
Tuesday January 15—Wednesday March 26
Atget to Zorn: The University Collects (Old College)
Works on paper, sculpture, and photography from the University Collection. The exhibition traces key developments in art from 1855 to the present while recognizing the rich and varied history of collecting at the University. Included in the exhibition is work by Mary Cassatt, Auguste Rodin, Thomas Moran, Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Hine, Kathe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, John Sloan, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Lee Krasner, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Ida Appelbroog, Rockwell Kent, Diego Rivera, Anders Zorn, and others.
Sunday January 13—Thursday March 27
Luis Gonzalez Palma
Photographs and collages by contemporary Guatemalan photographer Luis Gonzalez Palma. Palma's work combines mythic symbols of his country's Mayan past with references to the social, religious and political history of Guatemala. The exhibition will be complemented with an installation selected from the University's collection of Pre-Columbian ceramics.
Old College