Art History Lecture: Sonja Drimmer

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 112, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, Connecticut

Free and open to the public.

Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and the practice of art history.

Drimmer is a scholar of medieval European art with expertise in illuminated manuscripts and early print. Before joining the University of Massachusetts in 2013, she received her BA from Brown University and PhD from Columbia University. Her research is largely concerned with premodern notions of authorship and authority, media theory, book history, reproduction, and the aesthetics and material culture of politics. She maintains a strong interest in historiography and in particular how mediation, reproduction, and restoration shape the reception of objects over time. This concern extends into commentary she has written for both public and scholarly venues regarding the incursion of machine learning and artificial intelligence into the humanities and art history in particular.