27/04/2023
Dulcia Meijers will receive an honorary degree during the 143rd Commencement Ceremony on May 14, 2023.
Art and cultural historian Dulcia Meijers has served as the Executive Director of the Collegeâs European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands, since 1992. In addition to many scholarly articles, Ms. Meijers is co-author (with B. Aikema) of the book on poverty and charity in a pre-modern society, titled: Nel Regno dei Poveri. Arte e storia dei Grandi Ospedali Veneziani in etĂ , 1474â1797 (1989), and was curator of the loan exhibition De gouden schemer van Venetie (the Golden Twilight of Venice) for the Amsterdam Museum, and author of the eponymous book: De gouden schemer van Venetie. Een portret van de Venetiaanse adel in de achttiende eeuw (1991). For over 25 years, she served on the Board of Editors for the periodical on Dutch Visual Art and Culture, The Netherlandish Yearbook, NKJ (Brill Publisher), and consulted with the city architects of Venice, Italy, on restoration projects, conducting archival research and art historical and architectural analysis of historically important buildings. Since 1986, Meijers has taught many courses at Kasteel Well in the areas of European Studies and Civilization, European Cultural History, Romantic Painting and Poetry, and European Art History. Dulcia, as she is simply known to many Castle Dwellers, continues teaching or co-teaching History of Western Art I: Renaissance and Baroque, and her favorite course, The Story behind Art: Representations of âOthernessâ and the âCultural Otherâ. Emerson College Education Abroad & Domestic Programs Emerson College
