2006 - 2007 Speakers

Annabel J. Wharton

Annabel J. Wharton is the William B. Hamilton Professor of Art History at Duke University. Her work has focused on Late Antique and Byzantine art and culture, but she have also investigated the effect of modernity on the medieval past and its landscapes, first in her study of the first generation of Hilton International Hotels (Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture, University of Chicago Press, 2001) and most recently in a book titled Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replics, Themeparks, University of Chicago Press, 2006). She is beginning work on a new project considering the modern recycling of pre-modern buildings. This study will document the physical, economic and political implications of contemporary appropriations of architecture and history.

Christiane Hertel

Christiane Hertel is professor of history of art at Bryn Mawr College. She teaches courses on the arts of Northern Europe, especially in Germany and the Netherlands, from the Reformation to the 20th century. Current research interests include the relationships between Rococo culture and the Enlightenment in the art, art criticism and aesthetics of 18th-century Germany; the reverberations of these relationships in German and Austrian Modernism; ornament and ornament theory; the reconstruction of 18th-century German monuments at various moments in the 20th century and in the present.

Her recent publications include: