Lectures & Gallery Talks
Joslyn Art Museum is committed to providing a wide range of art-inspired lectures and gallery talks. Join us for stimulating discussions celebrating Joslyn's collections, special exhibitions, and beyond!   



January 5, 2012 @ 6:30 pm
Curator Gallery Talk
American Landscape: Contemporary Photographs of the West

January 19 @ 10:30 am
Art Encounters Tour: Art of the Landscape

  
January 29 @ 2 pm 
CU at Joslyn "Architectural Imagination in the American West: Maximilian of Wied and Karl Bodmer on the Upper Missouri, 1832-1834
Michael Brown, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy
 


January 31 @ 11:30 am
Appetite for Art: Time, Tradition, and Taste 


February 11 @ 10:30 am 
Free public program celebrating To Live Forever
"Living Forever in Ancient Egypt" presented by Edward Bleiberg, Ph.D., Curator of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum


February 16 @ 10:30 am
Art Encounters Tour: To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum



February 16 @ 6 pm
Archaeology Lecture 
"Roman Dinners and Barbarian Feasts: Food and Dining at the End of the Roman Empire" presented by Dr. Scott DeBrestian Professor of Art History at Central Michigan University


February 19 @ 2:00 pm 
CU at Joslyn "Abelard’s Unique Love
Jeffrey P. Hause, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
 


February 28 @ 11:30 am
Appetite for Art: Come and Get It! 


March 12 @ 7 pm 
Joslyn Art Museum in partnership with Nebraska Public Television presents a free public lecture "Europe through the Back Door" by Rick Steves, host, writer, and producer of the PBS television show Rick Steves Europe.


March 15 @ 10:30 am
Art Encounters Tour: Artist or Illustrator?


March 15 @ 6 pm
Public Program Celebrating To Live Forever
"Uncorking the Past: Ancient Ales and Other Extreme Beverages" presented by Patrick McGovern, Ph.D., Scientific Director of Penn Museum's Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory



March 18 @ 2:00 pm
CU at Joslyn "Ekphrastic Poetry: A Reading and Informal Discussion"
Susan Aizenberg, Department of English



March 27 @11:30 am
Appetite for Art: Springtime Stew 



March 29 @ 6 pm
Late 'til 8: Visualizing Literature Encore Presentation 
The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran


May 10 @ 6:30 pm
Public Program Celebrating To Live Forever
"Mummification: Resurrection of an Ancient Art" presented by Bob "Mr. Mummy” Brier, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University and leading authority on mummies.



April 1 @ 2:00 pm
CU at Joslyn "The Entombment of Christ: Developing Religious Imagination through Painting"
Eileen Burke-Sullivan, Ph.D., Department of Theology 

April 15 @ 2 pm
Corine Wegener, Ph.D., Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents "Hell Hath No Fury: How the Looting of the Iraq Museum Changed the Way Archaeologists Think About Armed Conflict"

April 24 @ 11:30 am
Appetite for Art: Choice Cut 


May 29 @ 11:30 am
Appetite for Art: Deliciously Dim