Piranesi's Rome and the Classical Imaginary
Constructing Worlds Scholarly Panel
Thursday, December 4, 2025
5:30PM - 7:30PM
University of San Francisco
Constructing Worlds: Panel with Noopur Agarwal, Elizabeth Carroll, and Tanu Sankalia
Join USCF for a panel of experts in art history, design, and architecture exploring the art of constructing worlds in the etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) as well as in their own work. A reception will follow in the gallery.
The event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
About the Guest Speakers
In addition to directing and teaching in the design program in USF’s Department of Art + Architecture, Associate Professor Noopur Agarwal is a practicing visual communication designer dedicated to increasing critical public engagement with issues of global and local concern. Her creative output often takes the form of “experiential graphic design” (physical and digital interactive environmental graphics) and includes brand identity concepts for events, organizations, exhibitions, publications, and advertisements.
Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Carroll is a Senior Lecturer and teaches in the Departments of Art & Art History and Design at San Jose State University (SJSU). Liz is a specialist in the art of early modern Venice and leads a SJSU Faculty Led Program in Venice, Italy. She has written articles on 16th-century Venetian art and co-edited multi-author volumes on the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior and A Cultural History of Furniture. Moving in a new direction in 2025 she was awarded an SJSU RSCA seed grant for her current project entitled, The Global Entanglements of Lacquer.
Professor Tanu Sankalia teaches courses in urban planning and design, architectural and urban history, and architectural design in USF’s Department of Art + Architecture. He is co-editor of Urban Reinventions: San Francisco’s Treasure Island (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), and is currently completing a manuscript titled Slots: Spaces In-Between San Francisco's Victorian Architecture.