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About the Lecture Series
The Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture is organised annually by UCL History of Art's Professor Tamar Garb. Nikos was one of the eminent figures of art publishing in the 20th century and a colleague and friend of Tamar's. The Memorial Lecture is our Department's flagship public event, delivered by an established and prestigious scholar, curator or artist.
Past Lectures
It has been our honour to invite the following academics to give the Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture in previous years:
- 2024: Lesley Lokko (University College London): "Soft Scoop"
- 2023 Anne Anlin Cheng: 'Strange Life: Apparitions of the Yellow Woman'
- 2022 Jaś Elsner: "Presence, Absence and the Problems of Comparison: Archaeological Art History from Buddhism to Byzantium"
- 2021 Griselda Pollock: 'Monroe’s Mark: Why is a feminist art historian writing about a screen idol?'
- 2019 Martha Roslen: 'Representation, Dispossession, and the Conquest of Space: An Artist’s Talk'
- 2018 Isaac Julien: 'Choreographing Capital'
- 2017 Professor Caroline Walker Bynum: 'Holy Beds and Holt Families'
- 2015 Professor Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University): 'X-Ray Architecture'
- 2013 Professor Kaja Silverman: 'Unstoppable Development'
- 2012 Professor Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell University): 'Seeing Global'
- 2011 Professor TJ Clark (Visiting Professor, University of York): 'Do Landscapes have Identities?'
- 2010 Professor Homi Bhabha (Harvard University): 'The Humanities and the Anxiety of Violence'
- 2009 Professor Jacqueline Lichtenstein (Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV): 'The Philosopher and the Art Historian: An Impossible Dialogue'
- 2008 Professor Molly Nesbit (Vassar): 'Light in Buffalo; Michel Foucault Lectures on Manet at the Albright-Knox, April 8, 1970'
- 2007 Okwui Enwezor (Curator): 'Incarcerated Life: Contemporary Art and the Security State'
- 2006 Professor Anne Wagner (University of California Berkeley): 'Nauman's Body of Sculpture'
- 2005 William Kentridge (Artist): 'Reading Shadows: The Pleasures of Self-Deception'