Visiting Speakers in Art History

2013- "The Art of Provenance Research: WWII-era Research Projects at the Smithsonian Institution," lecture by Jane Milosch, visiting speaker in Art History

2013- Lecture by Nacho Zamora, visiting artist in Sculpture

2012- "Refashioning Josephine: Female Political Agency in Napoleonic France," Lecture by Susan Taylor Leduc

2012- "Bernini's Terracotta Sketches and the Fire of Art," lecture by Steven Ostrow, visiting speaker in Art History

2012- "Images of Rule in the Age of Revolution: Napoleon Bonaparte and Antonio Canova," lecture by Christopher Johns

2012- "Cinema in the Museum," lecture by Professor Angela Dalle Vacche (Georgia Institute of Technology)

2012- "Josephine at Malmaison," lecture by Bernard Chevallier, visiting lecturer in Art History

2012- "Popular and Profane Experiences with the Sublime: The Temple as a Social and Cultural Focus in Egypt," AIA lecture by Dr. Lanny Bell, Brown University

2012- "The Appropriation of Egypt in Ancient Italy," lecture by Dr. Maria Swetnam-Burland, visiting lecturer in Art History

2012- "Nature's Therapy-Healing Gardens in Medical Facilities," lecture by Professor Reuben Rainey, visiting lecturer in Art History

2012- "Science and Phantasmagoria in the Twilight of Enlightenment," lecture by Martial Guedron, keynote speaker at the Art HIstory Graduate Symposium

2012- "Why Archaeology Matters: The Case of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls," AIA lecture by Dr. Robert Cargill, University of Iowa

2011- A Tale of Two Bronze Age Shipwrecks, lecture by Roger Williamson, M.D., University of Iowa

2011- "Exoticism and Dutch Culture in a Global Context, 1600-1650," lecture by Dr. Claudia Swan, visiting speaker in Art History

2011- "Ancient Rome and South Asia: Commercial and Cultural Exchanges," lecture by Dr. Sethuraman Suresh, Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC

2011- The Archaeological Exploration of Sikyon: A Comprehensive Approach to the Study of a Greek City-State, lecture by Dr. Yannis Lolos, University of Thessaly

2011- "Interpretations of the Past: The Roman Forum from Antiquity to the Present Day," lecture by David Watkin

2011- "Porosity," lecture by Steven Holl, Steven Holl Architects, New York

2011- 26th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium: "Art in Transition."

2011- "Good Humor: Caricature and Satire in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," lecture by Nadine Orenstein, visiting speaker from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

2010- "Land of Unfinished Monuments": The Ruins-in-Reverse of Nineteenth-Century America," lecture by Dr. Nicholas Yablon, University of Iowa

2010- "Financing Urban Redevelopment in 17th-century Rome: The Case of Stefano's Proposal for Piazza Colonna," lecture by Dorothy Metzger Habel, University of Tennessee

2010- "Papal Museums and 'National' Patrimony: The Origins of Modern Cultural Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Rome," lecture by Christopher Johns, Goldberg Professor of History of Art, Vanderbilt University

2010- "Highways to Heaven (and Hell): Wayside Crosses and the Making of Late Medieval Landscape," lecture by Dr. Achim Timmermann from The University of Michigan

2010- "Imports, Heirlooms and Second-hand Goods: New Perspectives on Domestic Sculpture in Pompeii," lecture by Dr. Jessica Powers, San Antonio Museum of Art

2010- "Technological Innovation in Imperial Rome: What Can Ancient Concrete Tell Us about Roman Society?", lecture by Lynne Lancaster, Ohio University

2010- "Mimicking Healthy Ecosystems in Urban Landscapes," lecture by Fred Meyer, visiting speaker in Art History

2010- "The Rich Tomb of an Etruscan Lady in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Lecture by Professor Emeritus Richard De Puma

2010- "Caesar's Crown" lecture by Michael Koortbojian, Art History Symposium keynote speaker

2010- "If the axle breaks what is left of their bodies? Construction Traffic in Ancient Rome," lecture by Diane Favro, Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor

2010- The Alhambra: Real and Imagined, lecture by D. Fairchild Ruggles, visiting scholar in Art History

2009- "HENRY OSSAWA TANNER: An International Retrospective-An Exhibition in Progress," lecture by Anna Marley, Ph.D., visitor in Art History

2009- "Making the Mummies Dance from Space," AIA lecture by Dr. Sarah Helen Parcak

2009- "Is this our Princeps? Reflections on an unusual Augustan head in Cedar Rapids," lecture by Prof. Emeritus Richard De Puma

2009- "Identity and Architecture: Iowa and the Prairie Schools," lecture by Richard Guy Wilson, visitor in Art History

2009- "From Buffon to Cuvier : Black Bodies in the French Visual Arts," lecture by Anne LaFont, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris

2009- "Why Art? The Cultural Response to Hurricane Katrina," lecture by David Houston, keynote speaker/AH Graduate Student Symposium

2009- "Arnold Böcklin Mountains. Art in the Age of Psychology", lecture by Dr. Hubertus Kohle

2009- "The Reuse of Statues in Ancient Roman Fountains," AIA lecture by Dr. Brenda Longfellow, SAAH

2009- "Building Fascist Bodies," lecture by Professor Terry Kirk, visitor in Art History

2008- "The Uses of the Past in Hellenistic Pergamon and Alexandria," lecture by Rachel Kousser, Brooklyn College

2008- "Napoleon's Last Project for a Monument on the Mont-Cenis in 1813," lecture by Prof. Dr. Jörg Martin Merz, visitor in Art History