Louise Smith Bross Lectures
Endowed in memory of Louise Smith Bross, PhD 1994, and sponsored by the Department of Art History, the Louise Smith Bross Memorial Fund supports a triennial series of four lectures on any aspect of pre-1800 European art and architecture by a scholar, or scholars, of international reputation. The gift also funds the publication of the lectures by the Chicago University Press. The prestige of the Bross Lectures is reflected in their public visibility: at least the first lecture in each series is delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago, whose generous assistance and collegiality are gratefully acknowledged.
Upcoming Lectures
| 2009 | Susan E. Alcock Director, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology at Brown University A series of lectures on "Some Archaeologies of Surveillance" 1 April: "Scanning and Planning: Modern Modes of Watching the Ancient World" 2 April: "Spying and Crying: Ancient Modes of Watching the Ancient World" 8 April: "The Utility of Surveillance: Case Studies and Observations" |
Lecture Archive
| 2007 |
Joseph Leo Koerner Professor in the History of Art Courtauld Institute of Art "Hieronymus Bosch: Enemy Painting" |
| 2003 |
Victor Stoichita Professor of the History of Art and Musicology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland Published as The Pygmalion Effect: From Ovid to Hitchcock (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008) |
| 2000 |
Martin Kemp Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford Published as The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007) |