History of Art and Architecture

Department Brown Bags

Department brown bags are open to faculty and graduate students in the History of Art & Architecture and affiliated departments.

Brown Bags are held in List Art Center, Room 423 (unless otherwise noted).

All brown bags will be posted on the University calendar. To receive access to this calendar or to receive pre-circulated readings and to inquire about remote attendance, please write to Cristin_Bilodeau@brown.edu.

Fall 2025 Brown Bags

Thursday, September 18, 12:00 pm
A lunchtime talk with Bofan Chen, PhD student, Zhejiang University
* Undergraduate Honors students welcome!

Thursday, September 25, 12:00 pm
A lunchtime talk with Celia Rodríguez Tejuca, scholar of early modern Latin American art, Brown University Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
* Undergraduate Honors students welcome!

Thursday, October 2, 12:00 pm (remote)
A lunchtime talk with Kuan-hung Liu, HIAA PhD Candidate

Thursday, October 9, 12:00 pm
A lunchtime talk with Sophie Higgerson, HIAA PhD Candidate

Wednesday, October 22, 12:00 pm
A lunchtime discussion with visiting lecturer Michael Falser, Architectural Historian at Heidelberg University, Germany.  
* During Prof. Shaffer's Practicum Class, Granoff Center, Englander Studio 
* HIAA Undergraduate Students welcome!

Tuesday, November 11, 12:00 pm
A lunchtime professional development session on publishing with Sarah Rovang, HIAA Alum and author
* HIAA Undergraduate Students welcome!

Spring 2026 Brown Bags

Thursday, February 5, 12:00 pm
A lunchtime talk with Catherine Nuckols, art historian, epigrapher, and Latin Americanist, Brown University Cogut Institute for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow