Events organized by AHNCA
About AHNCA
Founded in 1993, the association today has more than 250 members. AHNCA's goal is to foster communication and collaboration among all who are interested in art and visual culture produced between 1789 and 1914.
The Morality of Pictures
April 25, 2025 12:00 pm
Please join us for the next AHNCA/Dahesh Virtual Salon on Friday, April 25 at noon Eastern! “Art,” Baudelaire wrote, “cannot, except at the price of death or decay, assume the mantle of morality,” but he immediately added that every artwork “naturally and necessarily suggests a moral.” In this Virtual Salon, three distinguished scholars will consider what role, if any, moral...
Twenty-Second Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art: Second Session
March 16, 2025 1:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. Special thanks to the Dahesh Museum of Art for the Dahesh Museum of Art Prize for Best Paper(s), a gift from the Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation. This event will be held online; advance registration is required: www.tinyurl.com/grad-day2 Second Session: Sunday, March 16, 2025 1:00 pm...
Twenty-Second Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art: First Session
March 15, 2025 1:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. Special thanks to the Dahesh Museum of Art for the Dahesh Museum of Art Prize for Best Paper(s), a gift from the Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation. This event will be held online; advance registration is required: www.tinyurl.com/grad-day1 First Session: Saturday, March 15, 2025 1:30...
Twenty-Second Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art: Keynote Lecture
March 15, 2025 11:00 am
“Picturing the Heavens: Étienne-Leopold Trouvelot’s Astronomical Drawings” Rachael Z. DeLue, Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art and Director of the Princeton Humanities Initiative, Princeton University Prof. DeLue will be introduced by Michelle Foa, AHNCA Programs Chair; Q & A to follow. Register: www.tinyurl.com/grad-keynote...
Art and Ecology
February 7, 2025 11:00 am
Please join us on Friday, February 7 at 11 am Eastern Time for Art and Ecology, a Virtual Salon co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. This online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudeyrqD8qHNZBxkiAiSGeyH6JEiDsaekJ#/registration For this event, we are fortunate to host four speakers to discuss this important area of nineteenth-century studies: Sarah Gould, Simon Kelly, Michael Lobel, and...
New Books by AHNCA Members – Session 1
January 17, 2025 12:00 pm
Please join us for two Virtual Salons, one on January 17 and the other on January 24, and learn more about books published in 2024 by AHNCA members. Each author will give a brief presentation about their book, followed by a discussion among the authors and a Q&A with the audience. The Virtual Salons are monthly online events co-sponsored by...