Events

“Machine in the Garden: Aesthetic Infrastructure and the Paris Exposition Universelle 1867”Amy F. OgataProfessor in the Department of Art HistoryUniversity of Southern California Distinguished RespondentS. Hollis ClaysonProfessor Emerita of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor Emerita in the HumanitiesNorthwestern University Register: tinyurl.com/AHNCAgrad-symposium...

Please join us on Saturday, March 14, 11am-4:00pm (online) This event is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art Register here: www.tinyurl.com/AHNCAgrad-symposium Distinguished Respondent: S. Hollis Clayson Keynote Lecture: Amy F. Ogata 11:00am Eastern: Welcome by Nancy Locke, AHNCA President; Michelle Foa, AHNCA Programs Chair; and J. David Farmer, Director, Dahesh Museum...

Please join us on Friday, November 7 at 12pm Eastern Time for an Online Salon co-hosted with the Barnes Foundation, Made of Metal. The event brings together five distinguished scholars to discuss metal in the decorative arts, urban embellishment, and design around the world during the 19th century. This online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/online-salon-made-of-metal We are fortunate...

Please join us on Friday, October 3 at 11am Eastern Time for the Virtual Salon, “The Evolving Archive, part 1.” This online event is organized by Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and is part of a series of online events cosponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Evolving-Archive.   The nineteenth century is particularly rich in primary texts,...

Please join us on Thursday, September 4 at 7 pm Eastern Time for a Virtual Salon on the Gustave Caillebotte exhibition organized by the Musée d’Orsay, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. This online event is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Gustave-Caillebotte We are fortunate...

Our AHNCA-sponsored session at the 2026 College Art Association meeting in Chicago, “Who’s Afraid of Decorative Art?” will be chaired by Adrienne L. Childs and Ivana Dizdar. The portal for submissions of abstracts will open on Tuesday, July 15, and the deadline to apply is August 29, 2025. Accepted speakers should be members of both CAA and AHNCA; check your AHNCA membership here and...