Past Events

Spring 2024

John Guthrie | Artist Talk
Tuesday, February 6
Post-Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Nadia Ayari | Artist Talk
Monday, February 26
Post-Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Duane Slick | Artist Talk Monday, March 25
Post-Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Mark Simon, FAIA | Beyond Function
Wednesday, January 31
The Richard Saivetz '69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Jha D Amazi | Spatializing Memory
Monday, February 12

Architectural History Symposium | Intersecting Disciplines: Unsettling Architecture
Friday, March 1

Symposium in Honor of Charles McClendon
Thursday, March 21

Fall 2023

Friday, September 29
Lisi Raskin | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Monday, October 2
Minnie McMahon | Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
"Unlocking Potential: Navigating Housing and Community Development in Boston"

The Richard Saivetz ‘69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Monday, October 25
Zoé Samudzi | Critic Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Monday, November 6
Amy Lincoln | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Spring 2023

Friday, February 10
Jim Drain | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Friday, April 14
Genevieve Cohn | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Thursday, April 20
Prof. Yael Allweil | "Homeland Reconsidered: A History of Israel as a Housing Regime"
The Richard Saivetz '69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Monday, May 1
Jasmine Wahi | Curator Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Fall 2022
Monday, September 12
Artist Talk | Journey, Reflection and Work by Maria Klabin '99
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Wednesday, September 28
Minnie McMahon | Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Richard Saivetz '69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Monday, October 3
Vera Illatova | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Tuesday, October 11
Hannah Chalew | Artist Talk
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 12
Shona McAndrew | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 19
Sunglim Kim | Still Life in Motion: The Origins and Development of Chaekgeori Painting
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Wednesday, November 16
Prof. Gabriel Arboleda | "Sustainability and Privilege: On Social Design’s Greatest Challenge"
Richard Saivetz '69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Friday, December 2
Billy Dufala | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series
Spring 2022

Tuesday, January 25
Natasha Bowdoin | Artist Talk
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Friday, January 28
Crystalle Lacouture | Love is Power, in the paintings of Crystalle Lacouture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Wednesday, February 2
Galen Pardee | Architecture Lecture "Post-Concreteness: Architecture in an Era of Material Geopolitics" 
Richard Saivetz '69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Monday, February 7
Aline Perez | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Arts Lecture Series

Thursday, March 17
Lucy Kim | Artist Lecture
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Arts Lecture Series

Friday, March 18
Enrique Figueredo| Artist Talk
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Monday, March 28
Aziz Sohail '13 | Curator Talk
Post Baccalaureate in Sutdio Arts Lecture Series

Fall 2021
Thursday, September 23
Dylan DeWitt | Artist Lecture
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 13
Fred Liang | Artist Lecture
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art Lecture Series

Thursday, October 14
Billy Dufala | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 20
Nadiya Imani Nacorda | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 27
Carrie Moyer | Artist Lecture
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art Lecture Series

Tuesday, November 2
Baseera Khan | Artist Lecture
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art Lecture Series

Wednesday, November 3
Simonette Quamina | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Wednesday, November 3
Adriane Herman | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Thursday, November 4
Breanne Trammell | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Tuesday, November 9
Abby Spinak | Landscapes of Energy Democracy: American Infrastructural Imaginaries from Rural Electrification to the Green New Deal
Richard Saivetz '69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Tuesday, November 9
Hannah Chalew | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Monday, November 15
Lou Meisel | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Tuesday, November 23
Amitava Bhattacharya |"Intermingling of expressionism and East Asian brush language -- The journey of a painter
Co-sponsored by the Dean of Arts & Sciences
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Tuesday, November 30
Eileen Hsiang-ling Hsu |"A Tenacious Literatus in a Turbulent Time: Wu Changshuo’s Seal Script Calligraphy"
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Tuesday, December 7
Yasuko Tsuchikane | “I, Who Am Alone” – The Untrammeled Path of Shinoda Tōkō (1913-March 2021) in Engagement with Ink, Art, and Society in Post-World War Two Japan
Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences
Fine Arts Lecture Series
Spring 2021
Friday, February 12
Angela Lorenz | Artist Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Tuesday, February 16
Michelle Lopez | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art Lecture Series

Thursday, February 25
Virtual tour of Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion with Petra Slinkard
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Thursday, February 25
Craig Taylor | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art Lecture Series

Friday, March 5
LaToya Hobbs | Artist Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Friday, March 12
Dina Deitsh | Curator Talk
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Monday, March 15
Shanna Merola | Artist Lecture
Representation and Resistance Lecture Series | Funded by the Brandeis Arts Council

Tuesday, March 16
Emma McClendon | "Fashion in Museums: Methods and Politics of Display"
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Friday, March 19
Polly Apfelbaum | Artist Lecture
Printmaking Lecture | Funded by the Brandeis Arts Council

Thursday, March 25
Odili Odita | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art Lecture Series

Wednesday March 31
Zora J Murff and Jay Simple | Lecture and Conversation
Representation and Resistance Lecture Series | Funded by the Brandeis Arts Council

Wednesday, March 31
Willie Cole | Artist Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Monday, April 5
Stephanie Leone | “Pope Innocent X Pamphilj (r. 1644-1655): Building Baroque Rome”
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Tuesday, April 6
Carali McCall | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art Lecture Series

Tuesday, April 13
Virginia Raguin | "Stained Glass: Materials, Methods, and Placement in the Middle Ages and Beyond"
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Thursday, April 15
Bruce Baird | Lecture on Butoh: Japanese Dance Theater
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Wednesday, April 21
Jessi Reaves | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art Lecture Series

Wednesday, April 21
Emma Hanselman '18 | From Couverture to Couture: The innovative and experimental life of S. Delaunay-Terk
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Thursday, April 29
Rob Anderson | Contemporary Japanese Architecture Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series
Fall 2020

Wednesday, September 16
Dabney Hailey | Russian Monuments and Iconoclasm
Fine Arts Lecture Series 

Friday, September 18
Elizabeth Mooney | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Thursday, September 24
Duane Slick | Artist Talk 
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Lecture Series 

Friday, October 2
Laura Schnitger | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Tuesday, October 6
Chantal Zakari | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 14
Julien Bonder | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Thursday, October 15
Amber Scoon | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Monday, October 19
Danielle Dean | Artist Talk 
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 21
Nona Faustine | Lecture and Discussion
Representation and Resistance Lecture Series | Funded by the Brandeis Arts Council

Tuesday, October 27
Yevgeniya Baras | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Friday, October 30
Andrew Fish | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Monday, November 2
Mike Cloud | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Friday, November 6
Annabeth Marks | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Monday, November 9
Know You're Rights Training 
Hosted by the Boston Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Representation and Resistance Lecture Series | Funded by the Brandeis Arts Council

Thursday, November 12
Charles L. Davis II | "Louis Sullivan and the Physiognomic Translation of American Character"
The Richard Saivetz ‘69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Monday, November 16
Cher Krause Knight | “Chris Burden, a ‘Free Spot’ and Public Art”
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Tuesday, November 17
Conversation with Elizabeth Bradfield and Antonia Contro
Sponsored by the Brandeis Library, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections and the Rose Art Museum.

Wednesday, November 18
Yi Wang | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Thursday, November 19
Jiyeong Kim | Lecture
Fine Arts Lecture Series

Spring 2020

Monday, February 3
Laurel Nakadate | Artist Talk 
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Friday, February 28
Mabel Wilson | "Bulletproofing American History: Race, Remembrance, and Emmett Till"
The Richard Saivetz ’69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Tuesday, March 3 
Fred Wilson | Ceremony and Artist Talk 
Creative Arts Award

Wednesday, March 11
Jason Stopa | Artist Talk 
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Tuesday, March 24
Raul Gonzalez | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Lecture Series 

Fall 2019
Monday, September 23
Kevin Zucker | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Wednesday, September 25
Hannah Chalew '09 | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Tuesday, October 22
Women Leadership in the Arts Lecture

Thursday, October 31
Aliza Nisenbaum | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Friday, November 22
Enrico Riley | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series
Spring 2019
Wednesday, January 30
David Kim | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Friday, February 8
Didier William | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Tuesday, February 12
Amy Podmore | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Friday, March 8
Gina Osterloh | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Monday, April 1
Taca Sui | Artist Talk

Tuesday, April 2
Kevin Hom | The Architecture and Design of the American University: A Short History and Personal Exploration
The Richard Saivetz ’69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Friday, April 5
Yeon Shim Chung | Contemporary Korean Art: From the 1970s to the Present

Monday, April 29
Denise Markonish '97 | Curator Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series
Fall 2018

Monday, September 17
Artist Talk | Robin Hill
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Friday, October 12
Artist Talk | Liz Cohen
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Tuesday, October 23
Artist Talk | Ria Brodell
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Tuesday, November 6
Looted Art Symposium

Friday, November 9
Artist Talk | Tom McGrath
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Monday, November 12
Artist Talk | Marc Handelman
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Wednesday, November 14
Domesticity and Desire: Why Build a Modern House | Alice T. Friedman
Richard Saivetz ’69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Thursday, October 18
“She knew long before of the space in between” | Lecture by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Sponsored by Women, Sexuality, and Gender Studies

Tuesday, November 27
“Episodes in the History of Studying and Exhibiting Chinese Art in Postwar America” | Lecture by Noelle Giuffrida

Thursday, December 6
Artist Talk | Nevet Yitzhak
Sponsored by Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

Spring 2018

Thursday, February 15
Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape | Lecture by Elihu Rubin
Sponsored by The Richard Saivetz ’69 Annual memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Wednesday, February 7
Franca Martini | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Tuesday, March 6
Dressing for the Photographer: Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Clothes | Lecture by Wanda Corn

Monday, March 26
Mitigating Complexity: The Architecture of Tragedy and Hope | Lecture by Hagy Belzberg
Sponsored by The Richard Saivetz ’69 Annual memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Tuesday, April 10
How Architectual Drawings Changed What We Think about Architecture | Lecture by Jordan Kauffman
Sponsored by The Richard Saivetz ’69 Annual memorial Architectural Lecture Series

Wednesday, April 11
Jackie Gendel | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Friday, April 20
Natasha Bowdoin | Artist Talk
Post-Baccalaureate Visiting Artist Series

Fall 2017

Tuesday, October 10
Arts and Family Struggle during the Cultural Revolution in China | Lecture
Sponsored by the Fine Arts Department and the East Asian Studies Colloquium

Monday, October 16
Jennifer Samet | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Tuesday, October 17
Meet the Majors | Fine Arts Department

Wednesday, November 8
Steve Locke | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series

Spring 2017

Friday, February 3
Dr. Prasenjit Duara | Transcendence in a Secular World: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future
Lectures on Art and Environmental Crisis 

Tuesday, February 28
Okwui Enwezor | "Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945-1965" 
Art | Race | Activism

Tuesday, March 21
Joseph Connors | Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University "Francesco Borromini (1599-1667): Personality and Destiny of a Baroque Genius" 
Richard Saivetz '69 Lectures in Architecture

Wednesday, March 22
Lisa Reindorf | "Artists confront Climate change Mapping the Effects on the Land"
Lectures on Art and Environmental Crisis 

Thursday, March 23
John Beldon Scott | Director of the School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa "Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin: Faith in Geometry"
Richard Saivetz '69 Lectures in Architecture

Friday, March 24
Discussion by Ambassador of Tuvalu, Art Historian, and Eco-Art Historian
Lectures on Art and Environmental Crisis 

Tuesday, March 28
Cullen Washington Jr | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Program Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Tuesday, March 28
Toshiko Mori | Dialogue in Architecture
Richard Saivetz '69 Lectures in Architecture

Monday, April 3
Cristi Rinklin | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Program Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Thursday, April 19
Brandeis International Conference on Taiwanese Art

Fall 2016

Wednesday, September 14
Allison Smith | Site Visit in Cambridge, MA

Thursday, October 13
Mobile Seminar | The Glass House

Wednesday, October 19
Chakaia Booker | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Program Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 26
Daniela Rivera | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Program Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Thursday, October 27
Screening of Hidden Legacy with actress Takayo Fischer

Friday, October 28
Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale | Talk by Christopher Bedford

Wednesday, November 9
Matt Saunders | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Program Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Spring 2016

Monday, February 1
Jane South | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Program Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Tuesday, February 2
Germaine Ingram | Performance of “Freedom Underfoot” and Talkback
Art | Race | Activism

Wednesday, February 3
Germaine Ingram | Keynote Address for DEIS Impact: "The Law and the Stage: Platforms for Pursuing Social Justice"

Art | Race | Activism

Wednesday, February 24
Angela Dufresne | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Program Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Monday, February 29
Erik den Breejen | Artist Talk
Post Baccalaureate Program Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Tuesday, March 15
Camille A. Brown | Artist Talk and Workshop
Art | Race | Activism

Wednesday, March 16
James Montford | Artist Talk
Art | Race | Activism

Wednesday, March 23
Theaster Gates | Lecture and Award Ceremony | A Cursory Sermon on Art and the City
Art | Race | Activism

Wednesday, March 30
Nicole Fleetwood | Looking in/Looking Out: Prison Portraits and the Visual Archive of Mass Incarceration
Art | Race | Activism

Tuesday, April 5
Njideka Akunyili Crosby | Artist Talk
Art | Race | Activism

Sunday, April 7
Rick Lowe in conversation with Christopher Bedford
Art | Race | Activism

Tuesday, April 12
Amie Siegel | In Conversation with Kim Conaty

Saivetz Architectural Symposium

Friday, April 15
Dan Welden | Master Printer | Lecture 

Monday, April 18
Rick Lowe | Artist Talk
Art | Race | Activism

Monday, April 18
Shanay Jhaveri | Lecture
Saivetz Architectural Symposium

Fall 2015

Wednesday, October 28 

Roger White

Post Baccalaureate Program Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Thursday, November 5
Anne Harris


Post Baccalaureate Program Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Thursday, November 5

Nevet Yitzhak | Artist Talk

Art | Race | Activism

Thursday, November 12

Salah Hassan | Contemporary African Art as a Paradoz: Is "Afropolitan" the Answer?

Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences

Art | Race | Activism

Thursday, November 19 

Tavia Nyong'o | The Fugitive Present: Sweet Sweetback and The Mythic Being

Co-sponsored by the Theatre Arts and Women, Gender and Sexuality Departments

Art | Race | Activism



Monday, November 30 

Yoshua Okón | Artist Talk

Co-sponsored by Latino and Latin American Studies

Art | Race | Activism

Wednesday, December 2

KRS-One | Artist Talk

Co-sponsored by Creativity, the Arts and Social Transformation; Intercultural Center; the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life; Music; Ofce of the Dean of Arts and Sciences; Ofce of the Dean of Students; the Social Justice and Social Policy Program; and WBRS Radio

Art | Race | Activism