February 23, 2021

Lunchtime Lecture: As They Were, Berenice Abbott’s Queer Parisian Portraiture
February 23, 2021 at 12:15pm – 1:00pm EST
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Join Department of Art and Music Histories graduate student Mary Bedell G’21, curator of the virtual exhibition As They Were: Berenice Abbott’s Queer Parisian Portraiture, 1921- 1929, for a…
January 21, 2021

Orange Experience: Tastes, Traditions and Trends of Tea
January 21, 2021 at 6:00pm – 7:00pm EST
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January can bring gray, bitter cold days and long, chilly nights, so it’s no surprise that it’s National Hot Tea Month! Learn about the history of tea and explore its variety of leaves, health…
December 4, 2020

34th Annual Symposium – Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art
December 4, 2020 at 1:00pm – 4:00pm EST
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You are cordially invited to the 34th Annual Syracuse University Florence Graduate Symposium. Register for the virtual event. Program: Introductions Session I: The Sacred and the Secular in…
November 7, 2020

COVID and the Future of Mithila Art
November 7, 2020 at 9:30am – 11:00am EST
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Join four Indian artists representing various aspects of the artist community discuss the effects of COVID-19 on Mithila Art, both artistically and financially for the future of a community that…
October 7, 2020

Lunchtime Lecture: Perceptions of Power
October 7, 2020 at 12:15pm – 1:00pm EDT
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Join Kate Hill G’21, collections assistant and co-curator of the exhibition Being Human: Portraits from the Permanent Collection, as she examines the combination of three works an highlights a…
September 25, 2020

Florence as it Was: Digital Art History in a COVID World
September 25, 2020 at 3:30pm – 5:00pm EDT
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George Bent, the Sidney Gause Childress Professor in the Arts at Washington & Lee University will deliver a Zoom lecture on “Florence as it Was: Digital Art History in a COVID World.”…
August 27, 2020

Orange Night In: Virtual National Gallery of Art Tour
August 27, 2020 at 7:00pm – 8:00pm EDT
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Emily Francisco (M.A. ’17), an alumna of the Department of Art & Music Histories in the College of Arts and Sciences will lead a “virtual tour” of the National Gallery of Art in…
August 24, 2020

Artist Webinar
August 24, 2020 at 9:30am – 11:30am EDT
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Romita Ray, associate professor of art history in the Department of Art & Music Histories joins internationally-acclaimed artist Rina Banerjee and Rakhi Sarkar, Director, Centre for…
March 12, 2020
Art and Music Histories Colloquium: Decolonizing the History of American Modernism
March 12, 2020 at 10:00am – 11:00am EDT
Bowne Hall, 308
The Department of Art and Music Histories presents a lecture with professor Sascha Scott. This talk explores the ways in which Georgia O’Keeffe’s seemingly apolitical paintings of Hawai‘i…
March 11, 2020
CANCELED: Why Dutch Art Matters Now
March 11, 2020 at 5:30pm – 6:30pm EDT
Shaffer Art Building, 121
The Syracuse University Humanities Center and the Department of Art and Music Histories presents a lecture by Stephanie S. Dickey, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen’s University…
March 5, 2020

Hybridity, Breed, and Wildness
March 5, 2020 at 5:30pm – 6:30pm EST
Bird Library, 114
A lecture by Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT. Abstract: While maintaining pedigrees to guarantee purity, nineteenth-century animal breeders also occasionally attempted to…
March 2, 2020

Visibly Hidden: Exploring Queer Masculinities in 1950s Popular Music
March 2, 2020 at 3:45pm – 5:00pm EST
Bird Library, 114
The Humanities Center presents a lecture with Vincent Stephens (Dickinson College). American audiences of the 1950s regularly consumed gender transgressions in popular media well before they were…
January 29, 2020

Lunchtime Lecture: Masterpieces of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting
January 29, 2020 at 12:15pm – 1:00pm EST
Shaffer Art Building, SUArt Galleries
Join exhibition curator Wayne Franits, Distinguished Professor of Art History, for a gallery talk.
January 16, 2020

Masterpieces of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting from Regional Collections
January 16, 2020 EST
Shaffer Art Building, SUArt Galleries
It has been estimated that in The Netherlands over the course of the seventeenth–century approximately two million paintings were created. This astonishing number reflects the prosperity of the…

Making History, Justifying Conquest: Depictions of Native Americans in American Book Company Textbooks
January 16, 2020 – March 13, 2020 EST
Shaffer Art Building, SUArt Galleries
As the USA rose in world power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a government-led emphasis emerged in promoting a national history in which the conquest of Native peoples was…
December 5, 2019
33rd Annual Graduate Symposium in Renaissance Art
December 5, 2019 at 10:00am – 1:00pm EST
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Syracuse University Florence cordially invites you to join us at the Villa Rossa on Thursday, December 5 at 4:00pm for the 33rd annual Graduate Symposium in Renaissance Art. Can’t attend?…
November 20, 2019

STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION SUMMER 2020 HOA 300: MEDIEVAL SICILY
November 20, 2019 at 6:00pm – 6:30pm EST
Bowne Hall, 309
This class will be spent in the city of Siracusa (the original Syracuse!), walking, talking, and looking at art, churches and urban topography, in order to experience directly the rich and…
October 24, 2019

Diwali
October 24, 2019 at 10:00am – 10:00pm EDT
Bowne Hall, various locations (see flyer)
Celebrate Diwali! Light Up The Orange Grove Thursday October 24, 2019 10 a.m. onwards 308 Bowne Hall Join us to make Luminaries 5 – 6:30 p.m Light Up The Orange Grove 6:30 – 8 p.m. Shaffer Art…