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• 2013 Undergraduate Commencement Reception

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  Date: 05/03/2013; 1:00PM to 2:00PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art, Forum Hall, 525 S. State

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• The Cosmic Cup in Medieval and Later Persian Art

  A lecture by Marianna Shreve Simpson, President, Historians of Islamic Art Association Read More
  Speaker: Marianna Shreve Simpson
  Date: 04/17/2013; 5:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Reception Honoring Emeriti Faculty

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  Date: 04/12/2013; 4:30PM
  Location: Tappan Hall Lobby, 855 S. University

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• Tappan Talks

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  Speaker: Beatriz Zengotitabengoa and Candice Hamelin
  Date: 04/08/2013; 4:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• The Extinction of Gothic Architecture

  A lecture by Robert Bork, Read More
  Speaker: Robert Bork
  Date: 04/01/2013; 4:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• The Tower of Snow at the State Hermitage Museum and Other Upcoming Projects

  A lecture by artist, poet, philosopher, and critic Enrique Martínez Celaya. Read More
  Speaker: Enrique Martínez Celaya
  Date: 03/29/2013; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University Ave.

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• The Royal Kallanka and Other Episodes in Inca Architecture

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  Speaker: Stella Nair
  Date: 03/27/2013; 5:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Geometry Made Manifest: Interpreting Ornament in Islamic Art

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  Speaker: Carol Bier, Visiting Scholar, Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA
  Date: 03/22/2013; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• Images of the Prophet Muhammad In and Out of Modernity: The Curious Case of a 2008 Mural in Tehran

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  Speaker: Christiane Gruber
  Date: 03/15/2013; 4:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Orientalizing Fraud and the Sistine Chapel Frescoes: Annius of Viterbo and Michelangelo

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  Speaker: Benjamin Braude, Department of History, Boston College
  Date: 03/15/2013; 2:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University Ave.

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• U-M History of Art Departmental Reception at CAA 2013, New York City

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  Date: 02/15/2013; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Green Room 4th Floor, NY Hilton 1335 Avenue of the Americas, NYC

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• Prismatic Scatterings: Global Modernists in post-war Europe

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  Speaker: Elizabeth Harney, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
  Date: 02/06/2013; 5:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University Ave.

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• Mapping Out Sacred Space: Rembrandt and the Second Temple

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  Speaker: Shelley Perlove, Professor Emerita of Art History, U-M Dearborn, and lecturer, U-M Ann Arbor
  Date: 02/06/2013; 4:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, #2022

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• Africa Workshop: What is African Art?

  Viewing of Exhibition, "El Anatsul: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa" Read More
  Date: 02/05/2013; 5:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 4701 Haven Hall

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• Five Short Talks on Caravaggio

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  Date: 12/17/2012; 4:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall

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• From Scanner to Powerpoint – A Practical Demonstration

  This workshop features a practical demonstration of scanning through PowerPoint preparation in real-time, with Q&A to follow. Read More
  Speaker: Sally Bjork
  Date: 12/14/2012; 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM
  Location: Room 60 Tappan Hall

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• 2012 Undergraduate Honors Symposium

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  Date: 12/07/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall

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• "King of Kings of Africa”: Racializing Gaddafi in the Visual Output of the 2011 Libyan Revolution."

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  Speaker: Christiane Gruber
  Date: 12/07/2012; 11:30AM to 1:30PM
  Location: 1644 School of Social Work

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• Helicon Undergraduate History of Art Student Association

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  Date: 11/30/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: Lower level of Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Pizza with the Professors
  Winter 2013 Course Preview

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  Date: 11/27/2012; 5:30PM
  Location: Lower Level Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Lectures Without Laptops: Presentations From Your Pocket

  With the right apps (and cables) your phone can be an easy-to-carry replacement for your presentation laptop. Read More
  Speaker: Matthew Quirk
  Date: 11/16/2012; 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  Location: Room 60 Tappan Hall

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• Helicon Undergraduate History of Art Student Association

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  Date: 11/16/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: Lower level of Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Helicon Undergraduate History of Art Student Association

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  Date: 11/09/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: Lower level of Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Helicon Undergraduate History of Art Student Association

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  Date: 11/02/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: Lower level of Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Helicon Exhibit: Politcally Erect: The Visual Stimulation of Politics

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  Date: 11/02/2012 to 11/08/2012; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Warren Robbins Gallery, UM School of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd.

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• From Bodies to Billboards: Alternative Sites of Display
  2012 History of Art Graduate Student Symposium

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  Date: 10/27/2012; 9:00AM
  Location: University of Michigan Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State, Ann Arbor

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• Helicon Undergraduate History of Art Student Association

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  Date: 10/26/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: Lower level of Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Helicon Undergraduate History of Art Student Association

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  Date: 10/19/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: Lower level of Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• How to Manage Your Research Images - Collection Management Tools (Flickr, Picasa and others)

  In working with mass amounts of images, it becomes clear that organizing them is a necessity. See a presentation on free and inexpensive tools for managing your research imagery. Read More
  Date: 10/12/2012; 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  Location: HART Conference Room 60

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• Architecture, Image, Action

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  Speaker: Michael Stöneberg, independent curator, Frankfurt; Mary Woods, Cornell; Andrew Herscher, Claire Zimmerman, U-M
  Date: 10/12/2012; 1:00PM to 3:00PM
  Location: West Review Space, 3rd floor, Art and Architecture Building

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• Helicon Undergraduate History of Art Student Association

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  Date: 10/12/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: Lower level of Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Sotheby's Institute of Art Information Session

  The U-M Department of the History of Art and Sotheby’s Institute of Art invite prospective students to an information session. Read More
  Date: 10/05/2012; 4:00PM to 5:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• "William Morris Carpets: Action in Design"

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  Speaker: Caroline Arscott
  Date: 10/02/2012; 5:00PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art Multipurpose Room, 525 S. State

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• Helicon Undergraduate History of Art Student Association

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  Date: 09/28/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: Lower level of Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Helicon Undergraduate History of Art Student Association

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  Date: 09/21/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: Lower level of Tappan Hall, 855 S. University

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• Helicon Art History Club Meeting

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  Date: 09/12/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: Tappan Hall lower level, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• Festifall

  Learn about the over 1000 student organizations on campus and discover how to make a difference at Michigan. Be sure to stop by the Helicon (undergraduate history of art student group) table! Read More
  Date: 09/06/2012; 11:00AM to 4:00PM
  Location: Central Campus Diag

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• UMMA Doris Sloan Memorial Program with Celeste Brusati and Judith Turner

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  Date: 06/13/2012; 5:30PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art, 525 S. State, A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I

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• 2012 Undergraduate Commencement Reception

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  Date: 04/27/2012; 1:00PM to 2:00PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art Commons, 525 S. State

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• "Travels in Olmec Time"
  Luis Castañeda Colloquium

  A lecture by Luis Castañeda, Syracuse University. Read More
  Date: 04/20/2012; 2:00PM to 4:00PM
  Location: 130 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor

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• "Problems in American Realism: Art, Life, and Time in a Painting by William Sidney Mount"
  Rebecca Zurier Colloquium

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  Date: 04/13/2012; 4:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Tappan Talks

  History of art doctoral candidates Bridget Gilman, Elissa Park, and Kristine Ronan give 20-minute lectures followed by 30 minutes of discussion. Read More
  Date: 04/05/2012; 4:00PM to 7:00PM
  Location: UMMA Multipurpose Room, 525 S. State, Ann Arbor

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• 2012 Beyond the BA: History of Art Undergraduate Student Career Luncheon

  U-M undergraduate students are invited to lunch with three History of Art alumni who will give short presentations talking about how the skills they developed as art history concentrators have translated to jobs and careers after graduation. With Q & A.

  Space is limited. Click here to RSVP on our Facebook page.

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  Date: 04/03/2012; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: Kelsey Museum, room #125, 434 S. State, Ann Arbor

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• pARTiciPLAY experiential art tour

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  Date: 04/03/2012; 3:00PM
  Location: Meet on front steps of UMMA, 525 S. State

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• "Money Makes the World Go Around: An Ancient Empress as Popular Icon of Japanese Modernity"
  Melanie Trede Colloquium

  A lecture by Melanie Trede, 2011/2012 Toyota Visiting Professor Read More
  Date: 03/30/2012; 4:00PM to 5:30PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• "Paradoxes and Problems of the Reproduction and Commodification of Art in the Age of the Capitalist Spectacle"
  Donald Kuspit Colloquium

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  Date: 03/28/2012; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall

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• Pizza with the History of Art Professors: Fall Term 2012 Course Preview

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  Date: 03/27/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall

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• "The Pleasures of the Peony in Chinese Art: Regarding the Floral Temptress in the Song Dynasty"

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  Date: 03/27/2012; 7:00PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

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• Hybrid Practices and Political Art

  A lecture by Professor of History of Art Alex Potts. Read More
  Date: 03/09/2012; 4:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• U-M History of Art Departmental Reception at CAA 2012, Los Angeles

  Please join us at the 100th Annual Conference of the College Art Association. All faculty, alumni, students, and friends of the department are welcome Read More
  Date: 02/24/2012; 5:30PM
  Location: Los Angeles, California

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• Room for Another View: China’s Art in Disciplinary Perspective

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  Date: 02/10/2012 to 02/11/2012; 8:30AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor

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• Discussion: The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe

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  Date: 01/23/2012; 3:00PM
  Location: 2239 Lane Hall

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• Phillip Guilbeau Memorial

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  Date: 01/20/2012; 3:00pm
  Location: U-M Fine Arts Library, Tappan Hall

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• Tappan Talks

  Monique Johnson and Rebecca Bieberly, U-M History of Art doctoral candidates, give short talks followed by Q & A. Read More
  Date: 01/06/2012; 4:00PM to 5:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall

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• 2011 History of Art Honors Symposium

  History of Art Honors students give 20-minute talks followed by a short Q & A. Read More
  Date: 12/02/2011; 5:30PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art, 525 S. State, Multipurpose Room

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• Jews and Magic in Medici Florence

  A talk by Edward Goldberg about his book Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis (Toronto, 2011). Read More
  Date: 11/21/2011; 5:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, #100

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• Pizza with the History of Art Professors: Winter Term 2011 Course Preview

  Can't decide which classes to take winter term? Join Helicon, the History of Art undergraduate student group, for pizza and discussion with History of Art faculty. Read More
  Date: 11/15/2011; 5:30 PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall

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• Kathleen Richardson Lecture

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  Date: 11/14/2011; 4:00PM
  Location: 1014 Tisch Hall

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• 2011 History of Art Freer Symposium: Barbarians, Monsters, Hybrids and Mutants: Asian Inventions of Human "Others"

  Annual U-M Department of the History of Art fall symposium. Read More
  Date: 10/22/2011; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State, Ann Arbor

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• "The Pictorial Representation of Shiite Themes in Lithographed Books of the Qajar Period"
  Ulrich Marzolph, Georg-August-University, Germany

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  Date: 10/17/2011; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• "Pearls on the Ocean Floor" Documentary Screening

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  Date: 10/06/2011; 6:30PM
  Location: Chesebrough Auditorium, Chrysler Center, 2121 Bonisteel

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• "Rauschenberg's Rebuses: Entertainments Celebrating Unfixity"
  Graham Smith Colloquium

  This informal talk focuses on Rauschenberg's appropriated images in his combines of the 1950s; John Cage's 1961 essay 'On Rauschenberg, Artist, and his Work' serves in part as a parallel text. Read More
  Date: 09/28/2011; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• Sotheby's Institute of Art Information Session

  The U-M Department of the History of Art and Sotheby’s Institute of Art invite prospective students to an information session on Friday, September 23rd in Tappon Room 180. Read More
  Date: 09/23/2011; 1:30PM to 2:30PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• Pizza with the Art History Professors

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  Date: 09/20/2011; 5:00PM
  Location: Lower level lobby, Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• 2011 Undergraduate Commencement Reception

  Welcome families and friends! History of Art concentrators and their families are invited to attend this annual event honoring graduating seniors. Read More
  Date: 04/29/2011; 1:00PM to 2:00PM
  Location: Tappan Hall Lobby
  855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• "Golgotha's Great Horror, as Reflected in Hans Burgkmair's Augsburg Calvary of 1504"
  Mitchell Merback, Johns Hopkins University

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  Date: 04/14/2011; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall

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• "Male worlds –female worlds: gender specific aspects of early Joseon [Choson] painting"
  Burglind Jungmann, UCLA

  A lecture by Burglind Jungmann, professor of Korean art history, UCLA. Read More
  Date: 04/08/2011; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University Ave, Ann Arbor

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• "Edward Pugh and Richard Wilson at Carreg Carn March Arthur"
  John Barrell, University of York

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  Date: 04/06/2011; 4:30PM to 6:30PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University Ave.

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• Beyond the BA: History of Art Undergraduate Student Career Symposium

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  Date: 04/04/2011; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art Multipurpose Room, 525 S. State, Ann Arbor

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• History of Art Pizza with the Professors: Fall 2011 Course Preview

  Can't decide which classes to take fall term? Join Helicon, the History of Art undergraduate student group, for pizza and discussion with History of Art faculty. Read More
  Date: 03/31/2011; 7:00PM to 8:30PM
  Location: Tappan Hall, lower level

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• "What is an Architectural Media Screen?: Diller Scofidio + Renfro and the Making of Facsimile"
  Ed Dimendberg, University of California

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  Date: 03/30/2011; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall
  855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• "Of Bones and Burials: New Research on the Harbour Necropolis of Ephesus"
  Martin Steskal, Austrian Archaeological Institute

  Dr. Martin Steskal, scientific employee at the Austrian Archaeological Institute and a long-time member of the Austrian archaeological team at Ephesus, will talk about his current research on the Harbor Necropolis. Read More
  Date: 03/21/2011; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• "Cinema as Aesthetic of the Masses"
  Gertrud Koch, Freie Universitat Berlin.

  The Werner Grilk Annual Lecture, presented this year by Gertrud Koch, flim studies, Freie Universitat Berlin. Read More
  Date: 03/17/2011; 4:00PM
  Location: MLB 3308

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• "Manet's Empire"
  Howard Lay, University of Michigan

  A lecture by Howard Lay, associate professor, history of art. Read More
  Date: 03/11/2011; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• Pan Gongkai, "On the Borders of Art"

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  Date: 03/08/2011; 4:00 PM
  Location: Pendleton Room, Michigan Union

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• Lorena Rizzo Colloquium

  "Looking for Clues: Police Photography in Southern Africa and the Place of Visuality in the Making of Colonial Subjects" Read More
  Date: 02/23/2011; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• Harrell Fletcher Lecture

  A lecture by artist and Roman Witt Visiting Artist in the School of Art & Design Harrell Flectcher. Read More
  Date: 02/16/2011; 6:00PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art Multipurpose Room, 525 S. State, Ann Arbor

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• The Charles Lang Freer Lecture in the Visual Arts: Vishakha N. Desai

  "The Future of Asia’s Cultural Past" Read More
  Date: 02/15/2011; 4:30PM to 6:00PM
  Location: Rackham Amphitheatre, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor

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• Tappan Talks

  History of Art doctoral candidate Megan McNamee presents, "Geometry and Representation in the Central Middle Ages." Read More
  Date: 02/14/2011; 4:30PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall

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• U-M History of Art Departmental Reception at CAA 2011, New York City

  Please join us at the 99th Annual Conference of the College Art Association. All faculty, alumni, students, and friends of the department are welcome. Read More
  Date: 02/11/2011; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Sheraton Hotel, Empire Ballroom East, 2nd Floor
  811 7th Avenue, New York

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• Michigan in Paris & Michigan in Washington Informational Meeting

  Learn about opportunities for undergraduate art history study and internships away from campus through the Michigan in Washington and Michigan in Paris programs. Read More
  Date: 02/08/2011; 5:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall

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• Lasting Legacy: Charles Lang Freer's 1910 'Exhibition of Oriental and American Art' and the University of Michigan

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  Date: 01/30/2011; 2:00PM to 3:00PM
  Location: The Freer House (Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute/WSU) 71 E. Ferry Street, Detroit

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• Christina Kiaer Lecture, “Was Socialist Realism Avant-Garde?”

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  Date: 01/26/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University

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• Atta Kwami Colloquium

  "Kumasi Realism, 1951-2007: An African Modernism" Read More
  Date: 01/26/2011; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan Hall
  855 S. University, Ann Arbor, MI

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• 2010 U-M Art History Graduate Student Symposium: MIS/RE/PRESENTATION

  This symposium considers the various arrangements of presentation in art. With the intention of broadening art and its history beyond a singular or dominant narrative, our symposium will focus its line of questioning on the ways in which artistic mis/re/presentation lends itself to an investigation of existing descriptive paradigms as well as the implications of such an endeavor. The speakers will consider modes and forms of misrepresentation across all time periods, media, and locations of art production from prehistoric to contemporary. Read More
  Date: 11/13/2010; 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium, 519 S. State, Ann Arbor

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• History of Art 2010 Fall Symposium: The Art Book Today: Print Projects in the Digital Age

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  Date: 09/11/2010; 1:00PM to 5:00PM
  Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 S. State

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• Judith Sobre: The "Business of Painting" in Medieval Spain

  In late Medieval Spain, it became traditional for art historians to distinguish between major arts (painting, sculpture and architecture) and minor arts (all the rest). But in the 14th and 15th century, this was not the case. A survey of documentation of painters active in Catalonia and Valencia during this period groups painters of retablos, furniture, shields with coats of arms, "interior decoration" paintings on linen, banners, and painted bridles and clogs (outdoor sandals) all together. The differences between categories had to do more with payment values than with the type of painting (retablos, being bigger, usually paid more). By means of such documentation and a very unusual merchant's house inventory, the greater world of the painters of this time and place will be discussed, with a focus on the Crown of Aragon. Read More
  Date: 09/17/2008; 04:00PM to 06:00PM
  

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• 2008 Fall Symposium: "The Experience and Use of Wonder"

  The experience of Wonder eludes words. In academic circles it is usually discussed under the banner of philosophy or theology, which comes as no surprise. Wonder is more a feeling than a thought; it arrives unexpected, compels us by its immediacy, and soon moves on, leaving us changed. In the experience of Wonder the distinction between subject and object is temporarily suspended, while the encounter itself seems to unfold in silence, outside of time and history. In that encounter, we are transported from memory, from reason, and even from desire. Conceptual categories dissolve; without them, and removed from ordinary consciousness of space and time, we have no historical perspective from which to speak, no means to represent the experience. Only afterwards can we "make sense" of the Wonder-encounter. But we cannot predict with certainty what that "sense" will be.
  
  In that shift between silence and sense we can begin to locate the effort of this Symposium. If Wonder seems to reside in timelessness, it also has been an engine of worldly thought and action, the "beginning of philosophy" that has both compelled conformity and sparked revolution. Wonder, in short, has its uses. How, for example, have cultural spectacles been designed to trigger this moment of non-reflexive perception, such that the individual subject is in effect softened, petitioned, interpellated into a broader ideological field? And conversely, how has Wonder been employed in the service of dissent, as a poetic means to destabilize the logic of power? When, and under what historical conditions, does Wonder become a salient cultural feature, central to the ordinary discourses of exploration, education, expression and entertainment? Please join us as noted scholars share their work that addresses such matters in complex, beautiful and sometimes terrifying ways. Read More
  Date: 09/13/2008; 1:00PM to 5:30PM
  Location: Rackham Amphitheatre

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• Thomas Coomans:"Beyond the Abbey Ruin: A Debate about Monastic Architecture and Identity in the Thirteenth Century"

  The picturesque ruin of the Cistercian abbey church of Villers-en-Brabant (Belgium) represents a case study for some of the most recent debates on medieval monastic culture. Its three separate construction campaigns in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries provide a source for the investigation of construction techniques, for studies on liturgy (monastic, funerary), but also for a wider socio-historical consideration of the methodology of architectural history. Coomans is Professor of History of Art & Archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Read More
  Date: 02/18/2008; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 180 Tappan

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• Prita Meier: "Mombasa's Entangled Architectures: Negotiating Empire in an East African City"

  During the last decades of the nineteenth century, as the forces of colonialism and industrialization transformed the lives of coastal east Africans, Mombasa became the site of intense contestation. Diverse foreigners and long-term residents sought to lay claim to the city’s densely built-up harbor area, the historical heart of mercantile trade and local social networks. Its architectural spaces and their symbolic power were translated within new and old hierarchies of cultural difference, creating unexpected frameworks for the narrations of self and belonging. Charting the elaborations and reinventions of several merchant houses along the Mombasa waterfront, this presentation will examine the larger processes by which meaning is produced and elided in African architecture. A talk by Prita Meier, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins. Read More
  Date: 12/06/2007; 04:00PM to 06:00PM
  Location: 4701 Haven Hall

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• Persion Visions

  A guided tour of the exhibit "Persion Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran" sponsored by Helicon, UM's History of Art student organization. For more info about Helicon visit: www.umich.edu/~helicon Read More
  Date: 11/15/2007; 06:45PM to 08:45PM
  Location: UMMA Off/Site, 1301 S. University

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