The Newcomb Art Department presents the 2019 Stern Lecture, "From Land and Water to Text and Object: Porcelain Cultures of the Eighteenth Century," by Nancy Um, professor of art history at Binghamton University. 

The Stern Lecture is the Newcomb Art Department’s oldest endowed lecture in art history. First presented in 1999, the Stern lecture was established by Harriet and Bill Rosenthal in honor Harriet’s father Henry Stern, a renowned antiques dealer in the French Quarter.