On Saturday, September 12, 2009, there will be a symposium at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT:
"Flash of a Spirit: A Celebration of Robert Farris Thompson."
Robert Farris Thompson, the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale, will step down as Master of Timothy Dwight College in the spring of 2010. Thompson is internationally renowned as a groundbreaking scholar of the arts of the African Diaspora -- the historical space of creative breaks and flows that he has termed "The Black Atlantic." His books include African Art in Motion (1974), The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds (1981), Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy (1983), Tango: The Art History of Love (2005), and Staccato Incandescence: Mambo in Art History (underway).
The symposium is free and open to the public, 9-5, followed by a reception in the gallery, 5-6. Speakers include: Rowland Abiodun (Amherst College), David T. Doris (U of Michigan), Patrick McNaughton (Indiana U), Kellie Jones (Columbia U), Grey Gundaker (College of William and Mary), Richard J. Powell (Duke U), and Marta Vega (Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute). Musical performances are by Oriki Omi Oddara, Sonic Serendipity, and Alma Moyo. The keynote address is by Robert Farris Thompson, a Chubb Fellow. This event is sponsored by the History of Art Dept., African American Studies Dept., and Chubb Fellowship, Yale University.
For additional information, please contact theresa.leininger@uc.edu or dtdoris@umich.edu.
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