Speaker Series: Space, Power, Memory
The lecture series is a major collaboration between Architectural Studies, the Department of French & Italian, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. It emerges from the complementary interests of scholars in different humanities departments and builds on the recent Mellon-funded “Pittsburgh Constellations Consortium” in the Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Monday, January 25
Claire GOLDSTEIN, Department of French and Italian
University of California, Davis
“Beyond the King's Eye: Observing Comets in the Age of Versailles"
Monday, February 8
Chandra MUKERJI, Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
“The Glow of the Sun King: Artisans and the Ascendancy
of Louis XIV”
Monday, February 15
Georges FARHAT, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
“Reception and Appropriations of Versailles and French Formal Gardens in 20th-21st-Century Landscape Studies and Urban Designs”
Monday, February 22
Giulia PACINI, Department of Modern Languages
College of William and Mary
“Pruning (at) Versailles: Arboreal Politics in Eighteenth-Century France”
Monday, March 28
Thomas W. GAEHTGENS, director
The Getty Research Institute
"Transforming the Château de Versailles into a National Museum."
All lectures are free and open to the public beginning at 6:00 pm and will take place at the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Sponsors:
University of Pittsburgh
- Office of the Provost | The Year of the Humanities in the University
- Architectural Studies
- Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Department of French & Italian
- Department of History of Art & Architecture
- Department of Sociology
- Department of History
- Cultural Studies
Carnegie Museum of Art
For more information, please contact Corrin Trombley: cot12@pitt.edu; 412-648-2400.
