Public Programs
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2025 Calendar
Sept
Series: New Directions in Photography
Thursday, September 4, 2025, 6:00-8:00pm
Matthew Biro, University of Michigan
Black Jews, Jewish Photographers: Photography, Fluidity, and Distinctiveness

Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, September 12, 2025 6:00-8:00pm
Fosca Maddaloni-Yu, Washington and Lee Art Museum
Setting China: Mounted Porcelain and the Transgeographic Atelier in Early Modern Eurasia
Series: Close Reading: Authors at the IFA
Monday, September 22, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Thomas Crow
Making Sense of Marat

Series: South-East Asian Connections: Art, History and Archipelagos
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 6:30pm
Mirjam Shatanawi
Indonesia’s Islamic heritage and the aftermath of colonialism

Oct
Series: Sam Wagstaff Photography Lecture
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 6:00pm
Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Peter Schub Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art
Photographic Portraits, Political Imagination

Nov
Series: The Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor Lecture
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 6:00pm
Mary McLeod, Columbia University

Series: The Great Hall Exhibitions
Wednesday, November 12 at 6:00pm
Exhibition Opening
Series: South-East Asian Connections: Art, History and Archipelagos
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 6:30pm
Teren Sevea and Faizah Zakaria
Love, Desire, and Death: Charms from Islamicate Southeast Asia

Series: Modern Architecture in Korea
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 6:00pm
Pai Hyungmin University of Seoul
Fragments and Networks: Narratives for Modern Architecture in Korea

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