On Beauty and the Divine in Ancient Greece: A Conversation with Mary Beard and Hugo Shakeshaft
• April 9, 2025

In this conversation, Mary Beard and Hugo Shakeshaft explore the place of beauty in ancient Greece. They turn to poetry, art, and philosophical texts as well as the built environment […]

Profs & Pints DC: Trump and Terrorism
• March 25, 2025

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Trump and Terrorism,” on the Trump administration’s counterterrorism policies and their likely impact at home and abroad, with Jacob Ware, research fellow at the Council […]

Armenian Christian Art and Culture Lecture – (Complimentary Catered Event)
• March 5, 2025

In this talk, Sergio LaPorta, of CSU Fresno, will present Armenian narratives that articulate both the deterioration of Christian-Muslim relations in the twelth century and strategies for negotiating a rapidly […]

Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture with Michael Gaige
• January 23, 2024

In this talk, we’ll journey from the wolf tree’s linguistic and cultural origins in the Germanic worlds of the Middle Ages, to America’s wolf tree origins during Thoreau’s day, to […]

Elegant in Life, Ambiguous in Death: A High-Status Mummy from Northern Coastal Peru
• November 30, 2023

The exceptionally well-preserved Moche mummy known as the Señora de Cao was buried at the El Brujo ceremonial complex in northern coastal Peru around 500 CE. Her unusually rich and […]

Mondrian’s Dress
• September 20, 2023

Join an in-depth presentation on issues of authorship and (mistaken) identity raised by Yves Saint Laurent’s 1965 series of so-called Mondrian dresses. Nancy J. Troy, Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center […]

In-Person Lecture: Winslow Homer: The Man Behind the Art
• February 9, 2023

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) has often been called America’s favorite painter. Like his contemporaries Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artist’s […]

Tudor Nights: Behind the Canvas: A Journey Through Time with Peter Waddell
• September 17, 2021

Join Tudor Place’s artist-in-residence Peter Waddell in his studio for a virtual tour of early Washington DC. Through the lens of his meticulously detailed paintings – including those recently unveiled […]

Free Landmark Lecture: The Peabody Room Collection: Three Centuries of Georgetown Art
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Since 1935, the Georgetown Neighborhood Library’s Peabody Room has served as a repository of books, photographs, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, artifacts, and artworks that document the 270-year history of Georgetown, the […]

Free Landmark Lecture: Women and Slavery in Georgetown
• September 1, 2021

Elsa Mendoza, Assistant Curator, Georgetown Slavery Archive, Georgetown University will speak about women and slavery at Georgetown, and will examine women’s unique roles in the history of slavery in Georgetown […]