The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art



March 25, 10:00am
IBWA Workshop

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

Please join us for a day-long workshop discussion on forthcoming scholarship from the Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive:

10:00 am: Introductory remarks by David Bindman and Suzanne Blier
10:30 am: Kristina Van Dyke (Pulitzer Foundation) – The Image of the Body
10:50 am: John Picton (SOAS) – The Mask 1 (read by D.Bindman)
11:10 am: Chris Geary (Boston MFA) Photography
11:30 am: Break
12:00 pm: Steven Nelson (UCLA) – Contemporary Art
12:20 pm: Discussion
12:40 pm: Break
2:00 pm: John McCleod (U of Louisville) and Kenneth X Robbins (Independent scholar) India
2:20 pm: Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh U.) Islamic lands
2:50 pm: Timon Screech (SOAS) and Alicia Volk (U of Maryland) Japan
3:30 pm: Don Wyatt (Middlebury) China
3:40 pm: Break
4:00 pm: General Discussion

Co-sponsored with the Asia Center, the Committee on African Studies, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the South Asia Institute

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public. A Q+A and general discussion will follow the workshop.

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