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Apr. 7 | MAASA Joint Conference—April, 2011
Joint conference on material culture, April 7-11, 2011, UW-Madison
Events
January 6, 2009
FIRST ANNUAL HARLEM SYMPOSIUM: ART, ETHNICITY, and GLOBALIZATION
The honored guest speaker will be American artist and art historian
David Driskell. Co-author of The Harlem Renaissance, Professor
Driskell was elected to the National Academy in 2000. The David C.
Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African
Americans and the African Diaspora was founded at the University of
Maryland in 2001.
Participants include Fred Wilson, MacArthur Fellow and American
representative to the Venice Biennale, 2003; Paul B. Armstrong,
former dean of Brown University and author of Play and the Politics
of Reading; Bill Brown, co-editor, Critical Inquiry and author of A
Sense of Things; Ewa Ziarek, author of An Ethics of Dissensus; and
New York artist and architect James Carpenter, whose projects
include the glass exterior of the recently completed Tower Seven,
World Trade Center.
According to IDSVA president George Smith, “The symposium
underscores Harlem’s ongoing history as a cosmopolitan art site.”
Smith added that this year’s symposium marks the first in a series
of annual IDSVA Harlem symposia, all focusing on art, ethnicity,
and globalization.
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The David Driskell lecture is open to the public: it will be held
on Thursday, January 8 at 5.30 pm. Seating is limited. If you’d
like to attend this event, please contact Amy Curtis at 207-879-
8757 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
THE INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES IN THE VISUAL ARTS is the first
and only school in the United States founded for the sole purpose
of providing doctoral studies in philosophy and art theory to
visual artists. Study includes residencies in Tuscany, Venice,
Paris, and New York City, plus online instruction.
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