The Angela Rosenthal Distinguished Lecture
The Angela Rosenthal Distinguished Lecture honors our late colleague Angela Rosenthal, who passed away in 2010.
Angela Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Art History, talks about the exhibition "Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body" in the Hood Museum.
2025 Lecture
Lecture date: October 14, 2025
Speaker: Cécile Fromont, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Africa, Latin America, and the Early Modern Atlantic, Harvard University
Title: "The Discreet Charm of the Old Indies: Kongo, Brazil, and Colonial Fantasy in a French Baroque Tapestry"
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Carpenter 13
Reception to follow in Carpenter 106
In Memoriam: Angela Rosenthal
Past Lectures
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 Age Khan Program
for Islamic Architecture, MIT
November 2, 2016
"No Laughing Matter Revisited"
Dr. David Bindman
Emeritus Profess 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