Art historian Juliet Sperling’s Bernard Rosenberg Lecture explores the surprising visual strategies of nineteenth-century medical textbooks, from layered anatomical illustrations to interactive paper bodies. Examining intersections of gender, touch, and representation, this lecture offers perspectives on how knowledge and bodies were made visible and touchable. Following the lecture, stay for a reception sponsored by University of Nebraska’s Nineteenth-Century Studies program. 

Juliet Sperling is Kollar Professor of American Art at the University of Washington and holds a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Tactile Sensibilities: Seeing Through Print in American Art (University of Chicago Press, 2027).

The Bernard Rosenberg Lecture is made possible with a gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation by Dr. Stuart P. and Lynn S. Embury of Holdrege, Nebraska and named in honor of Rosenberg, a premier book dealer for American Art books. 

This lecture is free and open to everyone.