Burke Lecture Series archive
- 2020
- Nicole Fleetwood - Rutgers University: “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
- Kathryn Rudy - University of St. Andrews: “Why the Dirt Matters: Approaching Signs of Wear in Medieval Manuscripts”
- 2019
- Harriet Irgang - Chief Paintings Conservator, ArtCareNYC, Inc.: "Ethics and Modern Public Painting: Outdoor Murals"
- Amanda Lahikaine - Aquinas College: "British Graphic Satire and the Enlightenment: The Conceptual Art of Imitating Paper Money"
- Bronwen Wilson - University of California, Los Angeles: "Inscription and the Horizon in Melchior Lorck’s Prospect of Constantinople"
- Susanna Berger – University of Southern California: “From Narcissus to Narcosis”
- Michael Kunichika – Amherst College: “Archaeology in the Twilight of Utopia: Soviet Debates on the Origins of Art”
- 2018
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Persis Berlekamp - University of Chicago: "The Roar of Battle: Military Talismans in Medieval Anatolia and the Jazira"
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Uri McMillan - University of California, Los Angeles: "Slaves to the Rhythm: Grace Jones, Disco, and Black Feminist Aesthetics"
- Matthew Canepa - University of Minnesota: "The Lord of the Seven Climes: Iran at the Center of Eurasian Exchange"
- Tina Campt - Barnard College: "Blow Flow and the Labor of Love"
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- 2017
- Dell Upton - University of California: "What Can and Can’t Be Said: Commemorating African-American History in the Shadow of the Confederacy"
- Graham Bader - Rice University: "Kurt Schwitters’ Revolutionary Aesthetics: The Invention of Merz, 1918-1919"
- Susan Gagliardi - Emory University: "Art and Power Launched into the World: Patrick McNaughton’s Legacy"
- Kassim Kone - SUNY Cortland: "An Exclusive Mande Blacksmith Musical Genre: The Jamara"
- Stanley Abe - Duke University: "Duplication in Chinese Sculpture"
- Sheila Dillon - Duke University: "Portrait Statuary in Athens in the Roman Period: The Material from the Athenian Agora"
- Bruce Cole - Ethics and Public Policy Center: "Boondoggle! The Struggle to Build the Eisenhower Memorial"
- Dell Upton - University of California: "What Can and Can’t Be Said: Commemorating African-American History in the Shadow of the Confederacy"
- 2016
- Marsha Morton - Pratt Institute: "‘Impressions of Strangeness’: Dream and Reality in the Art of Max Klinger"
- Michael Cole - Columbia University: "What Was Beauty: Sofonisba Anguissola’s Beauty"
- JoAnne Mancini - Maynooth University, Ireland: "Art and War in the Pacific World"
- Stephennie Mulder - University of Texas at Austin: "Making ISIS Medieval: Contemporary Responses to the Crisis of Heritage Destruction in Syria and Iraq"
- Richard Neer - University of Chicago: "Fire, Amber, Smoke, Oil: Greek Art Beyond Materiality"
- Christine Mehring - University of Chicago: "Olympian Land Art, Munich ‘72"
- Hui-shu Lee - University of California, Los Angeles : "West Lake and the Representation of an Iconic Place"
- Marsha Morton - Pratt Institute: "‘Impressions of Strangeness’: Dream and Reality in the Art of Max Klinger"
- 2015
- Alexander Marr - University of Cambridge: "Dürer’s Instrument Aesthetics"
- Caroline Arscott - The Courtauld Institute of Art: "Whistler and Whiteness"
- Mark Abbe - University of Georgia: "Color and Material Presence: Recovering the Aesthetics of Roman Marble Sculpture"
- David J. Roxburgh- Harvard University: "Al-Sufi’s ‘Book of Stars’: The Conception, Making and Transmission of Medieval Arabic Books"
- Amy Papalexandrou- Richard Stockton College of New Jersey: "‘Live Space' Architecture, Chant, and the Soundscape of Byzantium"
- Alexander Marr - University of Cambridge: "Dürer’s Instrument Aesthetics"
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