2026 Public Events

 

Stay tuned for events in AY26-27!

 

 


Past Events

 

Symposium: "Wesleyan in the 1830s—New Perspectives"

  • Friday, May 8, 2026

"Art Within Reach"

  • Monday, May 4, 2026
Ezra Shales ’91, Professor, History of Art, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

"The Delight of Practice"

  • Wednesday April 29, 2026
Arkadiusz Piegdon 08, Architect, Lynne Breslin Architects

"Latent Value: Spratling Silver and the Aesthetics of Mineral Development"

  • Monday April 6, 2026

Grace Kuipers 14, Postdoctoral fellow, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University


"The Representation of Reenchantment: Local Governance, Cultural Narrative, and Contemporary Architecture in Ningbo, China"

  • Thursday February 12, 2026

Hunter Shen 18, Harvard JD/MUP; Associate, Latham & Watkins


"Building the Future: Towards a Climate Ready Architecture"

  • Monday December 8, 2025

Richard C. Yancey 85, Founding CEO, Building Energy Exchange


"Shifting Shelves — Libraries of the 19th-Century Islamic World"

  • Friday October 24, 2025

Yael Rice, Associate Professor of Art and the History of Art and of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College - "Scattered Leaves: The Fates of South Asian Albums (Muraqqa’s) and their Libraries, 18th-19th c."

Deniz Türker, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Rutgers-New Brunswick - "Tanzimat’s Antiquarians, Their Coins, and Books"

Selin Ünlüönen, Luther Gregg Sullivan Fellow in Art History, Wesleyan University - "The Treasury, the Museum, the Library: How to Keep Books in Qajar Iran"


"Extracting the Past: How the 'AI' Industry Exploits Art History and What We Can Do to Stop It"

  • Tuesday September 16, 2025

Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst