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Listen to Director Jennifer Kingsley on CAA Podcasts

Dr. Kingsley and Dr. Tervala talk about connecting and overlapping the activities of university and museum-based art history in order to challenge the discipline’s canonical narratives. Hear the podcast here.

Students Spend Fall Break Day Visiting Philly Museums

Students Spend Fall Break Day Visiting Philly Museums
M&S and the Department of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology invited undergraduate and graduate students to visit the Mütter Museum and talk with Curator Anna N. Dhody and Director Robert Hicks about their latest exhibition Spit Spreads Death. Students also lunched with curatorial fellows from the American Philosophical Society and toured the museum’s exhibition Mapping […]

Why put a museum in a book? Talk at the Virginia Stern Book Center

Paula Findlen, Stanford University, shares her most recent investigation of Ferrante Imperato’s Cabinet of Natural History in 16th-Century Naples. Talk is Tuesday, September 17, 5:15pm in the Macksey Seminar Room of the Brody Learning Commons. Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe.