History of Art & Architecture

Svein Harald Gullbekk (University of Oslo), From Constantinople to the North: Harald Hardrada and the Making of Norway’s First Currency. This talk is offered in conjunction with Dr. Eurydice Georganteli’s seminar HAA 174, “The King’s Money: Power, Art...

Jeffrey Hamburger (History of Art and Architecture), Filling in the Blanks: Heinrich Seuse, Meister Eckhart, and the Nuns of St. Walburg. Please RSVP here to receive a precirculated copy of Prof. Hamburger's paper.

Krisztina Ilko (Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums), Bringing Medieval Lordship into Play: The Symbolic and Material Values of Chess Sets as Votive Offerings, c. 900–1350 . Co-sponsored by the Committee...

A three-day symposium, part of the Harvard University-Max Planck Institute collaborative project Metals, Minerals, and the Life Cycle , bringing together art historians, historians of science, material culture scholars, conservators, museum curators, and...

The first in a series of symposia presented by the "Metals, Minerals, and the Life Cycle" project of the Department of the History of Art & Architecture and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, this two-day event will explore how the value...

A symposium featuring contributions by Flora Cassen (Washington University St. Louis), Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ann Jones (Smith College), Thomas Rainer (University of Basel), Anne Marie Rasmussen (Duke University), and Peter...

Soheil Nazari (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg), The Age of Science and Design: A New Survey of Seljuq Dome Chambers in the Isfahan Region and Treatises on Practical Geometry.

Ethel Sara Wolper (University of New Hampshire), At the City’s Edge: The Shrines of Mosul.

A lecture by Nikolas Bakirtzis, Associate Professor and Director of the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories (APAC Labs) of the Cyprus Institute. Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art & Architecture and the Standing Committee on...

Alexander Brey (Wellesley College), Ruins, Reuse, and Memory in Early Islamic Architecture. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. While the earliest Arabic chronicles tend to mention...