Art History Events

All lectures are free and open to the public. They are sponsored by members of the Art History Division at NIU, and funded by the Elizabeth Allen Visiting Lectures in Art History and Northern Illinois University School of Art Visiting Artists and Scholars Program.

Directions to NIU

Directions to Arends Hall:
Lincoln Hwy West to Castle Drive,
North on Castle to College Ave.
East on College Ave to Arends Hall     Map

Spring 2008 Visiting Lectures in Art History Series

“Japanese Pots and Prints of the Twentieth Century”
Helen Merritt, Professor Emerita, School of Art, NIU
Tuesday, March 4, 5:00 PM Arends Hall Amphitheatre (Visual Arts Building, Room 100)

"Appropriating Cherished Myths: Roger II of Sicily and Byzantine Imperial Imagery"
ELENA BOECK, DePaul University
Tuesday, March 18, 5:00 PM Arends Hall Amphitheatre (Visual Arts Building, Room 100)

"Art, Sex and Censorship from Paul Cadmus to the Patriot Act"
RICHARD MEYER, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Southern California
Wednesday, April 2, 5:00 PM Arends Hall Amphitheatre (Visual Arts Building, Room 100)

"Paris by Night in the Transatlantic Imaginary, 1870-1914"
S. HOLLIS CLAYSON, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University
Wednesday, April 16, 5:00 PM Arends Hall Amphitheatre (Visual Arts Building, Room 100)