Public Events
The Research and Academic Program organizes a variety of scholarly events throughout the year that are free and open to the public. These events include lectures by our fellows in residence, talks by invited scholars, curatorial roundtables, and other special events, in addition to the biannual Clark Conference.
April 11, 2025—RAP Graduate Student Symposium: Queer Palimpsests: Rewriting Medieval Art History
June 25–28, 2025—Celebrating 25 Years in the Research and Academic Program
LECTURES
February 4, 2025—Alvin Baltrop’s Voyeurism: Sexual Perversity, Race, and the Historical Uses of Photography with Darius Bost (University of Illinois Chicago / Clark/Oakley Fellow)
February 25, 2025—The Making of The Popular Arts: Stuart Hall at the turn of the 1960s with David Scott
March 4, 2025—Who was Luisa Roldán? with Marjorie (Holly) Trusted (University of Glasgow, Scotland / Center for Spain in America Fellow)
March 18, 2025—The Last Panels of Aby Warburg's Picture-Atlas Mnemosyne with Annie Bourneuf (School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Clark Professor 2024–25)
April 8, 2025—Museum Education as a Factor in the Formation of National Identity with Svitlana Tymkiv (City Museum of Lviv, Ukraine / Futures Fellow)
April 11, 2025—Queer Making: Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe with Karl Whittington (Professor of Art History at Ohio State University)
April 15, 2025—Thinking Visually: Representation, Gesture, Reparation with Inês Beleza-Barreiros (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal / Michael Ann Holly Fellow)
May 6, 2025—Re-gendering Peruvian Archaeological Museums with Ulla Holmquist Pachas (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Museo Larco, Lima, Peru / Class of 1974 Fellow)
RAP also organizes and invites proposals for year-round scholarly colloquia and exhibition concept workshops. These more intimate, semi-private convenings allow for sustained inquiry into a particular subject or theme. You may find more information about how to propose a scholarly convenings here.