George Levitine Lecture: Stephanie Porras, "How not to do Global Art History"
George Levitine Lecture: Stephanie Porras, "How not to do Global Art History"
The 54th Annual Sessions of the Symposium will be held on Friday and Saturday, March 1st and 2nd, 2024. The symposium will begin on Friday evening, March 1st, when Stephanie Porras, Professor of Art History and Chair of the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University, will deliver this year’s George Levitine Lecture at the University of Maryland. The title of her talk, which she will deliver at 6 pm in the Lecture Hall (ASY 2203) of Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, is "How not to do Global Art History."
Stephanie Porras's research and teaching encompasses the visual and material cultures of Northern Europe, Spanish and Dutch colonial holdings in Asia and the Americas. Her recent books include The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp print and the early modern world and, with co-editor Stephen Campbell, The Routledge Companion to the Global Renaissance. She is outgoing Reviews Editor for the Art Bulletin and serves on the editorial board for the Netherlands Yearbook for the History of Art.
The talk will be preceded by a tea at 5 pm in the Atrium of the same building. A dinner, by subscription, will follow Professor Porras's talk. For this, please register here.
Information about the Saturday Sessions of Papers is available here.