New York University - Institute of Fine Arts
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lectures in the Fine Arts

A series of lectures, planned and coordinated by the Graduate Student
Association, is scheduled on Friday afternoons at 4 p.m. throughout the
academic year. The Graduate Student Association invites scholars from
institutions in the United States and abroad to lecture. Admission is
free, and the public is cordially invited to attend.

February

Friday, February 1, 2008 @ 4:00pm
MELISSA HYDE
Associate Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of
Florida
Indexing Herself: Suzanne Roslin's Self-Portrait with Quentin de la
Tour's Autoportrait à l'index

Friday, February 8, 2008 @ 4:00pm
ROBERT A. MAXWELL
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art, University of
Pennsylvania
Picturing Dreams in the Twelfth Century: Historicizing Visions

Friday, February 15, 2008 @ 4:00pm
BRANDEN JOSEPH
Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia
University
A Medical Text for the Eyes: Tony Conrad’s The Flicker

Friday, February 29, 2008 @ 4:00pm
PERSIS BERLEKAMP
Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art History,
University of Chicago
Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam

March

Friday, March 7, 2008 @ 4:00pm
CECILY HILSDALE
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
The Atoms of Epicurus: Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline

Friday, March 28, 2008 @ 4:00pm
KAJA SILVERMAN
Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film, University of California,
Berkeley
The Twilight of Posterity

April

Friday, April 18, 2008 @ 4:00pm
DAVID J. ROXBURGH
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Department
of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Word, Image, Deception: al-Hariri’s Maqamat (Assemblies)

Friday, April 25, 2008 @ 4:00pm
REBECCA ZORACH
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Passionate Angles

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