The Wayward Line: Crisis and Laughter from the Gothic to the Graphic Novel, with Cordula Grewe
2026-10-14 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
The Wayward Line: Crisis and Laughter from the Gothic to the Graphic Novel
Dr. Cordula Grewe is an art historian whose research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and aesthetics, and visual piety in the modern age. She contributed an essay to the catalogue for the Milwaukee Art Museum exhibition Seeking Revelation: German Romantic Prints and Drawings (on view through November 1, 2026).
The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Art History and Friends of Art History, in coordination with the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Landscapes of Extraction: Mining and Empire in Romantic Britain, with Stephanie O’Rourke
2026-10-16 16:00 - 17:30
Landscapes of Extraction: Mining and Empire in Romantic Britain
Dr. Stephanie O’Rourke is a historian of European art particularly in relation to resource extraction, scientific knowledge, and media technologies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She also collaborates with artists and climate scientists to explore landscapes of extraction in the present day. She contributed an essay to the catalogue for the Milwaukee Art Museum exhibition Seeking Revelation: German Romantic Prints and Drawings (on view through November 1, 2026).
The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Art History and Friends of Art History, in coordination with the Milwaukee Art Museum.
