HESCAH welcomes Dr. Jesús Escobar to give a lecture based on new and ongoing research on seventeenth-century Spanish architecture in a transatlantic context. Dr. Escobar is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, where he specializes in the architecture, urbanism, and cartography of […]

Art, Nationalism and Power: Gazbia Sirry and Egyptian Modernists in Gamal Abdel Nasser's Revolutionary EgyptDr. Chika Okeke-Agulu This lecture by Chika Okeke‑Agulu explores themes of explore themes of modernism, decolonization, and diasporic artistic practices. Okeke-Agulu is a Nigerian-born artist, critic, and art historian based at Princeton University, where he holds professorships in African and African […]

Join us for a HESCAH lecture by Dr. Rebecca M. Brown, Professor of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. Rebecca M. Brown is Professor of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in colonial and post-1947 South Asian art and visual culture and has served as a curator of modern […]

Dr. Thomas Cummins (Art History - Harvard U.)"From the Beginning: Guaman Poma and Martín de Murua and the true genesis of Nueva Coronica i Buen Gobierno"March 6, Harn Museum at 6:00 p.m. First Colloquium on Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala at UF: Colonial and Indigenous History, Art, and Literature Intertwined March 5 - 6, 2026 This two-day colloquium […]

Join us for a HESCAH lecture by Peter Probst, Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University. Peter Probst's teaching and research are thoroughly interdisciplinary, located at the intersection between art history, anthropology, and museum studies. His areas of specialty include the visual cultures of modern Africa and its diasporas, critical museum […]