Alan Templeton Colloquium in Art History

Group portrait of 11 smiling professionals in business-casual attire against light curtain. — Back row, left to right: Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, Michael Yonan, Diana Strazdes, Talinn Grigor, Katherine Burnett, Alexandra Sofroniew; front row, left to right: John López, Andrew Patrizio (speaker), Alan Templeton, Associate Dean Liz Miller of the College of Letters and Science, Alan C. Braddock (speaker), at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. (Carol Kepler/UC Davis)

About

The Templeton Colloquium in Art History is an annual lecture series made possible by the generous support of Alan Templeton (B.A., '82). All lectures are free and open to the public.

Past Colloquia

2026: Art History and Climate Change
2025: Cultural Heritage at Stake: Between Conservation and Criminality
2024: Moving Things, Making Ideas: China-Inspired Objects and International Trade
2023: Pacific Encounters
2022: Of Satire and Bigotry: Press Culture, Women's Rights, and Liminal Modernity in West Asia
2021: Race, Museums, Art History
2019: Art and Enlightenment
2018: The Power of Color: Polychromy and Pigments in Ancient Mediterranean and Latin American Art
2017: The Life and Afterlife of Ancient Roman Architecture
2016: Convergent Cultures / Convergent Image
2015: Change and Persistence
2012: Japanese Art and Its Contexts
2011: Art Between Europe and Asia in the First Age of Global Trade