Public Programs
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2025 Calendar
Sept
Series: New Directions in Photography
Thursday, September 4, 2025, 6:00-8:00pm
Matthew Biro, University of Michigan
Black Jews, Jewish Photographers: Photography, Fluidity, and Distinctiveness
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, September 12, 2025 6:00-8:00pm
Fosca Maddaloni-Yu, Washington and Lee Art Museum
Setting China: Mounted Porcelain and the Transgeographic Atelier in Early Modern Eurasia
Series: Close Reading: Authors at the IFA
Monday, September 22, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Thomas Crow
Making Sense of Marat
Series: South-East Asian Connections: Art, History and Archipelagos
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 6:30pm
Mirjam Shatanawi
Indonesia’s Islamic heritage and the aftermath of colonialism
Oct
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, October 3, 2025 6:00-8:00pm
Jenny So (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) will present “Understanding a New Type of Inscription from Early China: Numbers on Late Eastern Zhou Jades.”
The discussion will be moderated by Roderick B. Campbell (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU).
In-person
Series: Sam Wagstaff Photography Lecture
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 6:00pm
Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Peter Schub Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art
Photographic Portraits, Political Imagination
Nov
Series: The Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor Lecture
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 6:00pm
Mary McLeod, Columbia University
Series: The Great Hall Exhibitions
Wednesday, November 12 at 6:00pm
Exhibition Opening
Series: South-East Asian Connections: Art, History and Archipelagos
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 6:30pm
Teren Sevea and Faizah Zakaria
Love, Desire, and Death: Charms from Islamicate Southeast Asia
Series: Modern Architecture in Korea
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 6:00pm
Pai Hyungmin University of Seoul
Fragments and Networks: Narratives for Modern Architecture in Korea
Dec
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, December 12, 2025 6:00-8:00pm
December 12
Peter Sturman (UC Santa Barbara) will present “Xu Wei and the Spatial Dimensions of Talent.”
The discussion will be moderated by Jonathan Hay (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University).
In-person
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