Lunch and Speaker Presentation
Speaker Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Professor Emerita
Frank L. & Eva L. Packard Professor of Fine Arts
At Ohio Wesleyan, Dr. Neuman de Vegvar taught Survey of Art History I as well as Classical, Medieval, Islamic, Italian Renaissance, and Baroque Art. With the late and much-missed Dr. Sally Livingston, she co-led the Travel-Learning Course Italian Renaissance Art and Thought to Siena and Florence and initiated the History of the Book course for the Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Program. For the Honors Program, she taught first-year honors tutorials on early English archaeology (Gold to the Ground), on women artists (Women, Art and Culture), on feasting in visual culture (A Feast for the Eyes), and, with Dr. Kay Ebel, on imagining the ideal city (From Mudbricks to the Matrix).
At Ohio Wesleyan, Dr. Neuman de Vegvar was Program Director for Ancient Medieval and Renaissance Studies from 1991 to 2004 and coordinator of the faculty-student Medieval Latin Reading Group (1996-98 and 2001-02). She served several terms on the Executive Committee of the Faculty and the Committee on Honorary Degrees, and she was a longtime member of the Honors Board.
In "retirement," Dr. Neuman de Vegvar plans to write two books, one on the drinking horns project and the other on gendered sightlines in early medieval churches. She also will continue to work for the preservation of early medieval sculpture currently undergoing deterioration from acid rain.
This event will take place in the Summit Room, Willow Brook Delaware Run, 100 Delaware Crossing, Delaware, OH MAP