April 2025

April 2, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Prof. Nancy Um will give a talk titled, “A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Networks of Money, People, Things, and Power in the Inventory of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695.”

April 5, 2025 - 10:30am to 6:00pm

Keynote Address: Steven Nelson, Dean of the Center of Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art.

April 5, 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Dr. Steven Nelson, Dean of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, will present the keynote address titled, “The Underground Railroad, Quilts, and the Power of Desire.”

April 9, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

The Yale Department of the History of Art and Program in Early Modern Studies invite you to celebrate a new book by Morgan Ng:
Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy (Yale University Press)

April 10, 2025 - 12:00am to April 12, 2025 - 12:00am

A two-day public event featuring an introductory Nahuatl language workshop and corn planting ceremony at the Yale Farm, led by Dr. Eduardo de la Cruz Cruz, Director of the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ)

April 14, 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Professor Adam Jasienski will present a lecture titled, “Satins and Dolls: The Material Lives of Sacred Images in Early Modern Spain.” Imagine the following scenario: in 1709 in a small town in Spain a figurine is danced across a table, provoking

April 15, 2025 - 12:30pm to 1:00pm

Caterina Franciosi will argue that Staffa, Fingal’s Cave encapsulates a central paradox of the Anthropocene.

April 16, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Professor Armstrong will present a Work in Progress talk titled, “Medium Matrix Materiality: Mary Cassatt’s Suite of Aquatints.”

April 23, 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Professor Yale Rice will present a lecture titled, “Tactile Histories of the Mughal Album.” As compilations of discrete, fragmentary images and texts in codex format, Mughal albums lend themselves to ocularcentric analysis.