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2026 Annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture featuring David Schneller
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThis year's lecture will be presented by Professor David Schneller, Assistant Professor of Art History, on Monday, March 9, 2026. All are welcome but kindly RSVP in advance by emailing: ycastellanos@support.ucla.edu or call (310) 825-0913 by March 2.
UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Felix Ho Yuen Chan, Apr. 22
Dodd Hall Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los AngelesPlease join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Felix Ho Yuen Chan on Wednesday, Apr. 22 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for his talk, Work on literacy: Sidney D. Gamble's "May Fourth China" Photographs (1917-1925).
UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Susan Dackerman, May 6
Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Susan Dackerman on Wednesday, May 6 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk, The Paleontology of Print: Lithographic Limestone and the Nature of Reproducibility. Summary: When in 1796, the Munich playwright Alois Senefelder developed a method of printing from the surface of the...
Jolene Rickard to present the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture, May 11
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lecture, featuring Jolene Rickard, Associate Professor, Departments of Art History + Visual Studies, Art American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, Cornell University. Professor Rickard's lecture is entitled, “Creative Defiance as Sensory Ecologies.” The Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lectureship was established in memory...
Art Council Lecture Series – A Conversation with Annemarie Jacir
UCLA Dodd Hall, Room 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAOn Wednesday, May 20, at 2 PM, PT the Art History Department will host Writer and Director, Annemarie Jacir for a conversation about her film "Palestine 36." Ms. Jacir will be appearing virtually for this event. Guests may attend in-person in Dodd 247 or attend via webinar. Kindly RSVP here to receive the webinar information prior...
UCLA Art History and Classics Annual Book Giveaway
Dodd Hall, Second Floor 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAPlease gather your friends & join us at the UCLA Art History & Classics Annual Book Giveaway which will take place in the hallways of Dodd Hall 2nd floor from 9am-4pm on Mon-Fri, June 1-5. These books have been generously donated by our Faculty and there are A LOT of fantastic finds. You will NOT...
Art History Department Welcome Back Luncheon, Sept. 23rd
Faculty Lounge, Dodd 221B Dodd HallThe annual Welcome Back Lunch will be held in the faculty lounge at 12 PM, Wednesday, September 23, 2026. Please join us to grab a bite and greet the incoming graduate students!
Art Council Lecture Series – Ellie Mackin Roberts
UCLA Dodd Hall, Room 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe 2026-27 Art Council Lecture Series begins with "From Loom to Goddess: Weaving, Cognition, and Women's Religious Experience in Ancient Greece" presented by Ellie Mackin Roberts. An RSVP is required here by October 1st.
Art Council Lecture Series – Abbey Stockstill
Dodd Hall Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los AngelesAbbey Stockstill, Associate Professor and Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair, in the Department of Architectural History, at the University of Virginia will be presenting a UCLA Art Council Lecture Series presentation entitled “None Like It in Islam": Material Aesthetics Between Andalusi Production and Maghrib Patronage Description: To look at the art of medieval North Africa is...
UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Dell Upton, Oct. 28
Dodd Hall Room 275 390 Portola Plaza, Los AngelesPlease join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Dell Upton on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for his talk, The Decapitation of a Great Blockhead.
2026 Regents’ Lecturer Events: Walead Beshty
Royce 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CAOur 2026 Regents’ Lecturer events in Art History with the artist Walead Beshty are scheduled, for Mondays November 2, 16 and 30, in Royce Hall 306. All events will begin at 5:00 PM Aesthetics, an open seminar Walead Beshty Artist and theorist Walead Beshty will lead a series of three open seminars organized around his...
