Cynthia Woods Mitchell Lecture Series | Jennifer Roberts

Wednesday, October 9, 2025

1pm – 3pm

Location Blaffer Art Museum

FREE and open to the public

Description

Jennifer L. Roberts is the Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. She is an art historian and photographer whose scholarship focuses on the interface between the arts and the natural sciences, the history and theory of craft and materiality, and the history of print. She is the author of several books; her latest work explores the reciprocity of art and astronomy, including essays about nineteenth-century glass plate astronomical photography and about the first image transmitted from Mars, a course about the Moon, and a public seminar at Harvard that brings astrophysicists and humanists together to discuss space exploration.

The School of Art Cynthia Woods Mitchell Lecture Series is supported by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.