October 14, 2025

"The Discreet Charm of the Old Indies: Kongo, Brazil, and Colonial Fantasy in a French Baroque Tapestry"

Cécile Fromont

Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Africa, Latin America, and the Early Modern Atlantic, Harvard University

November 7, 2024

"The Jewelers of the Ummah - A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World"

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University

November 8, 2023

"The City Unbeautiful: The Planned Destruction of the Black Educational
Landscape in Jim Crow Washington"

Amber Wiley

Matt and Erika Nord, Director of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS) and the Presidential Associate Professor in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School Design

November 14, 2022

"White Sight and the Strike Against White Reality"

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

October 11, 2021

"In the Shadow of the Negress"

Huey Copeland

BFC Presidential Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

November 7, 2018

"Tom Lloyd and the Art of Refraction: Bringing New Art Histories to Light"

Krista Thompson

Mary Jane Crowe, Professor in Art History, Northwestern University

November 2, 2017

"History, Ethics, and Plans for Reconstruction in Syria"

Nasser Rabbat

Aga Khan, Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT

November 2, 2016

"No Laughing Matter Revisited"

Dr. David Bindman

Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University College London and Image of the Black Archive & Library Fellow at Harvard University

November 12, 2015

"Gainsborough's Daughters, A Pastoral"

Ann Bermingham

University of California Santa Barbara

November 14, 2014

"What Do You Have to Say? On Norman Lewis and Painting Abstractly in the 1950s and after in New York"

Jacqueline Francis

Associate Professor Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies California College of the Arts, San Francisco

February 11, 2014

"Still Thinking about Olympia's Maid"

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

University California Berkeley

March 29, 2013

"Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World – Reflections in its Aftermath"

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

University of Chicago

February 13, 2012

"Making Trouble"

Guerrilla Girls