News & Events
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“Archival Challenges and Strategies Seminar” presents Naveena Naqvi and Yuthika Sharma.
The UCLA Department of Art History is thrilled to present, “Archival Challenges and Strategies Seminar”, organized by Professor Zirwat Chowdhury. The event will feature two guest speakers....
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Professor Thiago Puglieri to deliver talk at Columbia University on April 18th
Professor Thiago Puglieri will be delivering a talk at Columbia University on the Community-Driven Co-Production of Knowledge Earth Network. The lecture is entitled, "Community-Based Participatory Research in...
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The 2024 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture featuring Kellie Jones
It is with great pride that the UCLA Art History Department presents the 2024 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture with featured speaker Kellie Jones! Professor Jones, Hans Hofmann...
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Professor Zirwat Chowdhury to be featured speaker in UCSC’s lecture series, Crossings, on April 17, 2024.
Professor Zirwat Chowdhury will be delivering a lecture entitled, “Transacting Empire: Family Portraits" as part of the UCSC Center for South Asian Studies 2023-2024 lecture series, Crossings. ...
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Professor Stella Nair to be a featured speaker at Harvard University on April 5, 2024.
Professor Stella Nair will be delivering a hybrid talk entitled “The Impermanence of Inca Architecture” at Harvard University on Friday, April 5, 2024, at 4:00pm. “One material...
Mission Statement
The UCLA Department of Art History was one of the first in the United States to embrace a mission of comprehensive global coverage.
With this mission, the department has educated undergraduate and graduate students for decades with a broad-based understanding of art that comes from exposure to the artistic practices of a variety of “western” and “non-western” cultures through time and space.
With its requirements for study across the globe and for foreign language training above and beyond the college obligation, our department seeks to encourage students to question the art historical canon, to rethink the relationships between margins and centers, and to practice a socially and politically responsible art history.