Lectures/Symposia
All lectures and symposia are held in the Cantor Arts Center auditorium and are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
| Also see the Art Focus Lecture Series, which offers visitors an opportunity to expand their knowledge of art through lectures, seminars, and workshops with faculty, curators, art experts, and artists. |
Artists at Work Gallery Talk: Ali Gass and Caroline Winterer
Thursday, January 7, 5:30 pm, Pigott Family Gallery, 1st floor of the Cantor
Ali Gass, the Cantor's Associate Director for Exhibitions, Collections, and Curatorial Affairs, and Caroline Winterer, Stanford professor of History and Director of the Stanford Humanities Center, discuss the history of the reclining female nude as it relates to Artists at Work.
Faculty Talk: Jane Shaw, "Empathy and the Arts"
DATE CHANGE: Thursday, January 21, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Jane Shaw, Dean for Religious Life and Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University, discusses Empathy, an exhibition she co-curated at the Cantor. “Empathy” entered the English language via aesthetics and psychology in the late 19th century. Today, empathy is discussed not only in the arts and humanities, but also in Silicon Valley, Stanford’s d.school, and the latest neuroscience. We share a deep need to walk in the shoes of another. Empathy traces the meaning and practice of empathythrough artistic representations of Buddhist compassion; Christianity’s commandment to love our neighbor; Enlightenment moral philosophy; and Civil Rights-era photography. The exhibition accompanies the “Thinking Matters” undergraduate Stanford course taught by Dean Shaw.
Enter through Diekman (Rodin) Rotunda or main lobby. Doors open at 5:15 pm
Thursday, January 14, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Pegasus Physician Writers, along with the Stanford Medicine and the Muse Program, hold readings and other events to promote creativity, reflection and discussion on areas such as the context of medicine, the meaning of doctoring, health care, health and illness. Pegasus Physician Writers, founded in 2008, is comprised of physicians and physicians-in-training who meet regularly in the Stanford area to workshop their creative writing.
Co-sponsored by Stanford Medicine and the Muse Program
Angles on Art Gallery Talk: Edward Hopper's "New York Corner"
Thursday, January 28, 5:30-6 pm, meet in Sigall Gallery, 2nd floor of the Cantor
Three Stanford graduate students—Rachel Bolten (English), Maria Cichosz (Modern Thought and Literature), and Natalie Pellolio (Art History)—will discuss Edward Hopper's "New York Corner" from their unique disciplinary perspectives.
Faculty Lecture: Mark Braude on Speed and Power
Wednesday, February 3, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Mark Braude, lecturer in Stanford's departments of history, French, Italian, urban studies, and art history, discusses his curricular exhibition, Speed and Power.
Enter through Diekman (Rodin) Rotunda or main lobby. Doors open at 5:15 pm
Joint Faculty Lecture: Alexander Nemerov & Scott Sagan on Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Wednesday, February 17, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Alexander Nemerov and Scott Sagan offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the Cantor's special exhibition Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Nemerov is the Chair of the Department of Art & Art History and the Carol and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, the Mimi and Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and Senior Fellow at the Center for the International Security and Cooperation and at the Freeman Spogli Institute.
Enter through Diekman (Rodin) Rotunda or main lobby. Doors open at 5:15 pm
Faculty Panel: Richard Meyer, Ivan Lupic, and Terry Castle, "Queer Mannerism"
Wednesday, February 24, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History; Terry, Castle, the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities; and Ivan Lupic, assistant professor in the Department of English, discuss queer visuality in Mannerist prints. This panel highlights works in the Cantor's special exhibition, Myth, Allegory, and Faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist Prints.
Enter through Diekman (Rodin) Rotunda or main lobby. Doors open at 5:15 pm
Faculty Lecture: Alexander Nemerov, "The Mysteries of Grandma Moses and Shirley Jackson"
Thursday, April 21, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (a.k.a. Grandma Moses) and Shirley Jackson do not seem to go together. The maker of quaint childlike American scenes and the writer of the infamous short story "The Lottery" give vastly different views of America. Yet Moses and Jackson created their versions of American life within a few miles of one another, in and around the town of Bennington, Vermont, and they reached their greatest fame at the same time (around the year 1950). Alexander Nemerov, himself a native of Bennington, explores the relation between these two American masters. Professor Nemerov is the Chair of the Department of Art & Art History and the Carol and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities.
Thursday, May 5, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Gail Wight, Associate Professor of Art Practice in Stanford's Department of Art & Art History, discusses the role of process in her work. This is part of a series of studio art faculty talks at the Cantor to welcome the Department of Art & Art History to their new home, the McMurtry Building.
Faculty Lecture: Alexander Nemerov, "Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine"
Thursday, June 2, 5:30 pm, auditorium
One hundred years ago the American photographer Lewis Hine took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont to Georgia. In this lecture, given in tandem with the Cantor's exhibition Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine, Alexander Nemerov tells the story of some of Hine's most poignant photographs. Professor Nemerov is the Chair of the Department of Art & Art History and the Carol and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities.
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