Thursday
March 1
7:30 - 9:30 PM

Duke University's Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Carol Duncan, faculty emerita of Ramapo College of New Jersey, will present the keynote address for the department’s Graduate Student Symposium. Her lecture is “Against the Leisure Class: John Cotton Dana’s New Museum.”

Nasher Museum Auditorium
Free and open to all

Professor Duncan is a major figure in the marxist-feminist critique of art history. Her books, which include The Aesthetics of Power: Essays in the Critical History of Art (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (London: Routledge, 1995), have left an indelible mark in the field of museum studies and critical art history.

The symposium will continue on Friday, March 2, with selected graduate students from the department presenting papers in a professional conference format. The first session will start at 2:00 P.M. in Room 204B of the East Duke Building. Refreshments will be provided. All presentations are free and open to the public.

This event is made possible thanks to the generous support of Duke University Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Women’s Studies at Duke University and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute.

All visitors will be treated to free admission at the Nasher Museum through March 20 while the museum prepares for the opening of two new exhibitions of contemporary art. To find out more, click here.

Meanwhile, check out the new exhibition, “The Past is Present: Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum,” including 60 works of art from the ancient Mediterranean world. The works, many of them on view for the first time, are part of a recent anonymous gift to the Nasher Museum from a private collection.

The show includes examples of vase painting, marble and terracotta sculpture, bronze, carved amber and gold jewelry from the Cycladic era (third millennium BCE) through the late Hellenistic period.