Angela H. Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Art History
In Memoriam
Angela Rosenthal

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The Angela Rosenthal Distinguished Lecture

The Angela Rosenthal Distinguished Lecture honors our late colleague Angela Rosenthal, who passed away in 2010.

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
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Carpenter 13

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    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.

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
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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
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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

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October 11, 2021

"In the Shadow of the Negress"

Huey Copeland

BFC Presidential Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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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

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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

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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

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November 12, 2015

"Gainsborough's Daughters, A Pastoral"

Ann Bermingham

University of California Santa Barbara

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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

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February 11, 2014

"Still Thinking about Olympia's Maid"

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

University California Berkeley

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March 29, 2013

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

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

University of Chicago

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February 13, 2012

"Making Trouble"

Guerrilla Girls