The Caroline and Albert Simons, Jr Spring Lecture Series had a global perspective this semester:

Robert Grant Irving-Architectural Historian, Yale University
Imperial Delhi: City as Symbol
April 1, 7:30 PM Room 309, SOTA

Robert Grant Irving-Architectural Historian, Yale University
On Guard: Colonial Architecture and Society in the British Caribbean
April 2, 3:00 PM Room 309, SOTA

Vernon Minor- Professor of Art History, University of Colorado
Death of Baroque
April 11, 8:00 PM Room 309 SOTA

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David Kowal has been accepted as a participant in a 2002 NEH (NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANTIES) Summer Institute, The Maya World: Cultural Continuities and Change in Guatemala, Chiapas and Yucatan. he will thus be spending six weeks this summer with a small, select group of scholars in Antiqua, Guatemala; San Cristobal de las Casas, Palenque, and Merida, Mexico,( ...and the jungle of both countries!) examining Mayan archeological sites and visiting surviving communities....courtesy of the NEH .

This comes on the heals of receiving final and official approval for a 2002-2003 Fulbright Reseach/Teaching Award to Guatemala....it’s now fact. With these awards and others Kowal has received in the past, he will now have received grants to live, travel and research on three continents — Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Additionally, Kowal has had two works appear in print this month: Hindu Temples of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Goa: The Maintenance of a Sacred Integrity and the Process of East West Cross Fertilization, Portuguese Study Review, volume 9, nos. 2 and 2, 2001, pp. 398-434 (article and photographs) and selections on the churches, temples, forts, etc. in the Portuguese Indies (India to China and Japan) contained within the just released book, Atlas mundial de la Arquitectura Barroca (edited by Antonio Bonet Correa), Electa and Ediciones UNESCO, Spain, 2001.”
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Mary Beth Heston was a respondent (in abstentia) for a session titled: “Kerala: Links East, Links West,” at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in Philadelphia in February. She has also been selected by the Blumenthal Foundation as a Scholar-in-Residence in the Wildacres Residency Program to complete her article “An Orgy of Foreignism” in July of this year.