The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute presents a screening of Michael Hersch's acclaimed opera Poppaea as part of the Humanities on the Hill series, followed by a panel discussion with: Michael Hersch, Ah Young Hong, Jennifer Stager, and Abraham Stoll

UNWRUNG stages a dialogue between the visual arts and music in antiquity and modernity, exploring questions of historical reconstruction and the aestheticization of violence across time and artistic media.
John Lenti (Theorbo), Emi Ferguson (Flute), Ah Young Hong (Soprano), Miranda Cuckson (Violin)
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A workshop with Emi Ferguson (Flute)
This will be a dialogue between the visual arts and music, antiquity and modernity, and recovery and interpretation.
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Events are free and open to the public but registration is requested. Proceedings will not be livestreamed or recorded. To register and for details on the conference program, visit clarkart.edu/RAP25.

Join a conversation about art, activism, and collective expression across—and in—time and communities, considering the pleasures, perils, and possibilities of participating in a poetic first person plural.

In conversation with artist Allyson Vieira at the Corcoran

This workshop and museum colloquium will bring together art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, curators, conservators, and scientists to consider the production, use, and meaning of mosaic artifacts in Byzantium and the ancient Americas.

Art & Abortion is a double-session convened with Leila Easa, with special respondent Dr. Mary Fissell at the Association for Art History Conference. #ForArtHistory2023

Open Process: Responding to anti-trans legislation through art

San Francisco-based Hope Mohr Dance will be visiting JHU and performing their original work, Bacchae Before, a dance theater project co-directed by Maxe Crandall (playwright) and Hope Mohr (choreographer), inspired by the tragedies of gender reveal parties and Anne Carson’s Bakkhai.

*three events, free and open to the public*

Join us for a two-day symposium to learn about new discoveries and the significance of polychromy with a multidisciplinary and international group of scholars, including art historians, conservators, curators, imaging specialists, and scientists.
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With Ella Gonzalez and Danielle Ortiz, Presenting the Past: Responsible Engagement and Ancient Mediterranean History Peopling the Past Colloquium 2023

VITRUVIAN by Jerron Herman. Residency at Johns Hopkins

Screening of Access Film with live Talk Back with Jerron Herman & Pia Hargrove
Tuesday, February 28
7pm @MICA Lazarus Center, 131 North Ave
[Free, open to the public, ASL interpretation]

Live Performance of VITRUVIAN by Jerron Herman
Thursday, March 2
6:30pm (doors open at 6pm) @Baltimore Museum of Art
[Free, open to the public, ASL interpretation]

Organized by Harriet Fertik and Anna Wainwright

I served as a Kershaw lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America
“A Feminist History of Ancient Medicine” (Santa Fe, San Antonio, Worcester)
“Mosaics and the Antioch Recovery Project” (Phoenix, Worcester)

Taking its title from the god Asklepios’s violent birth (Pindar Pythian 3) and the priorities that this myth set for ancient Greek medicine, in this talk Jennifer Stager will explore the construction of a patrilineal genealogy of ancient medicine back to the god Asklepios, as well as a counter history to this genealogy connected with the goddess Hygeia. Written medical texts and visual representations staged ties between the doctor and Asklepios, eventually co-opting Hygeia’s position. Analyzing visual representations of healers and medical tools, as well as epigraphic, literary, and philosophical texts connected to healing practices, Professor Stager will trace the often violent construction of this patrilineal genealogy alongside its counter history.

On this episode of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we talk with Dr. Jennifer Stager, an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of History of Art, whose research interests include colour and materiality, feminisms, multilinguality and cultural exchange, ancient Greek and Roman medicine, and classical receptions.

Join us, as we delve into Dr. Stager’s exciting research on polychromy in the ancient Mediterranean, especially the use of colour on Greek statues.

This talk considers the red pigment identified as cinnabar or dragon’s blood in the ancient Mediterranean. The Roman historian Pliny the Elder attributes this pigment (derived from Socotra tree resin) to the blood of actual dragons living on the Indian subcontinent. His critique of painters for their indulgence and excess in using it—and the persistent idea that colors contaminate—stands against an idealized whiteness constructed in opposition to the materials and geopolitics of other cultures. Prof. Stager examines the afterlives of Pliny’s fantastical slander.

A single-day workshop at Johns Hopkins
On March 6, 2020 an international group of artists, writers, and art historians gathered in Baltimore, MD for a workshop at Johns Hopkins University, Form Beyond the Aesthetic, exploring the politics of form. After talks by Milette Gaifman, Benjamin Anderson, Jennifer Stager, Allison Caplan, Yael Rice, and Sonal Khullar, we walked over to the Baltimore Museum of Art, where Hope Mohr Dance performed extreme lyric i. This performance engaged with the fragmentary poetry of Sappho, one of the few female poets from ancient Greece whose work survives.

In the ancient Mediterranean world, colors emerged from the body of the earth to form visible worlds on her surface. Explorations of color were fundamental to philosophical investigations into the nature of the universe. Later devalued within a Cartesian system that elevated dematerialized ideals, colors have not been treated as constitutive, despite their unavoidable material presence. This paper will briefly distinguish between pre-Newtonian understandings of color as material, which was active throughout the ancient Mediterranean world, and a post-Newtonian dissolution of that materiality into light.

invited Co-chair (with Diana Magaloni) of the Templeton Colloquium in Art History at University of California, Davis.