Upcoming Art History Events


Fall 2025 Events Schedule

Travel, Tourism, and the Transmission of Knowledge in and around Japan

Opened on July 31, 2025, this exhibition was curated by students in the Japanese art history seminar “Manuscripts, Maps, and Illustrated Books.” In addition, a special event in the gallery on Wednesday, September 3, 2025 (3:30-4:45) will feature mini presentations on selected works by each seminar student. The exhibit will remain open through January 9, 2026.

The exhibition is at the Spencer Research Library.

Imaq: Maritime Making in Inuit Art Histories

Bart Pushaw, PhD
Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025 @ 5:30 pm in SMA 211

2006 Franklin D. Murphy Distinguised Alumni: J. Richard Gruber

J. Richard Gruber, PhD Director Emeritus Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Lecture: American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Art Museums in a Changing World
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025 @ 5:30 pm in SMA 211

Fall 2025 Events Schedule

Franklin D. Murphy Visiting Lecturer

Ed Triplett, PhD
Assistant Professor of the Practice, Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 @ 5:30 pm in SMA 211

Symbiosis: Art and Ecologies in Global Perspectives

2025 KU History of Art Graduate Student Symposium
November 7 -8, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sugata Ray, University of California, Berkeley

Spring 2025 Events Schedule

Spring 2025 Lecture Series: Intersections of Identity: Expression, Exchange, and Hybridity

Speakers:
Sydney Pursel, February 25, 2025, Spencer Museum of Art, room 211
Nathan Stobaugh, March 13, 2025 7pm live streamed on YouTube
Megan Wanttie, April 15, 2025 7pm live streamed on YouTube
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Hyeok Hweon "H.H." Kang

Assistant Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Washington University in St. Louis

February 24, 2025 @ 2:30 pm
via Zoom

https://kansas.zoom.us/j/8328235171
Meeting ID: 832 823 5171 (no password)

De-Nin Lee

Associate Chair for Curriculum and Associate Professor of Art History
Department of Visual & Media Arts, Emerson College

March 27, 2025 @ 5:30 pm
Spencer Museum of Art, room 211
More details soon

Fall 2024 Events Schedule

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Peter Sturman, Fall 2024 Franklin D. Murphy Professor and Lecturer

Professor, Departments of History of Art and Architecture, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
Thursday, September 19, 2024
5:30 pm
Spencer Museum of Art, Marilyn Stokstad Lecture Hall (RM 211*)
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Learning Lessons: Reflections on a Life in Academia

Franklin D. Murphy Distinguished Alumni, Ankeney Weitz
Ziskind Professor of East Asian Studies and Art; Chair of East Asian Studies, Colby College
Monday, September 30, 2024
5:30 pm
Spencer Museum of Art, Marilyn Stokstad Lecture Hall (RM 211*)
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In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan

Alicia Volk, Franklin D. Murphy Lecture Series
Professor, Japanese Art, Art History and Archaeology University of Maryland
Thursday, November 7, 2024
5:30 pm
Spencer Museum of Art, Marilyn Stokstad Lecture Hall (RM 211*)
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The Spatial Dimensions of Talent

Peter C. Sturman, Fall 2024 Franklin D. Murphy Professor and Lecturer Professor, Departments of History of Art and Architecture, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
Sunday, November 16, 2024
2:00 pm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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