George Levitine Lecture: Nancy Um, "On the Past and Future of Indian Ocean Art History"
George Levitine Lecture: Nancy Um, "On the Past and Future of Indian Ocean Art History"
The Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (The Center) at the National Gallery of Art are pleased to announce the 56th annual session of the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art. This year’s symposium will be held Friday and Saturday, March 6-March 7, 2026. Student speakers are invited from American University, Bryn Mawr College, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, Temple University, University of Maryland, University of North Carolina, and the University of Virginia.
The symposium will begin on Friday evening, March 6th, with tea at 5:00pm in the Parren J. Mitchell Arts & Sociology Building Atrium, followed by a 6:00pm keynote in ASY2203. Nancy Um will deliver this year’s George Levitine Lecture hosted by the University of Maryland. Her lecture is titled "On the Past and Future of Indian Ocean Art History." Nancy Um is Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute. She is the author of The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009) and Shipped but not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2017), in addition to studies about trade, art, diplomacy, and gift exchange around the early modern Indian Ocean rim. She is President-Elect of the Historians of Islamic Art Association and serves as a Board Member of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History.
Details about subscription to the dinner following the Levitine Lecture forthcoming.
The Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (The Center) at the National Gallery of Art are pleased to announce the 56th annual session of the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art. This year’s symposium will be held Friday and Saturday, March 6-March 7, 2026. Student speakers are invited from American University, Bryn Mawr College, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, Temple University, University of Maryland, University of North Carolina, and the University of Virginia.
The symposium will begin on Friday evening, March 6th, with tea at 5:00pm in the Parren J. Mitchell Arts & Sociology Building Atrium, followed by a 6:00pm keynote in ASY2203. Nancy Um will deliver this year’s George Levitine Lecture hosted by the University of Maryland. Her lecture is titled "On the Past and Future of Indian Ocean Art History." Nancy Um is Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute. She is the author of The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009) and Shipped but not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2017), in addition to studies about trade, art, diplomacy, and gift exchange around the early modern Indian Ocean rim. She is President-Elect of the Historians of Islamic Art Association and serves as a Board Member of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History.
Details about subscription to the dinner following the Levitine Lecture forthcoming.