Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, Harvard University
Date:
Monday, October 24, 2022, 5:30pm
Location:
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Harvard Arts Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge MA (entrance on Broadway)
The lecture is sponsored by Harvard's History of Art and Architecture Dept.
The speaker will be discussing -- and asking the audience to ponder -- her favorite questions. How should we be thinking about women artists these days? Can we integrate them into art history's narratives in a way that lasts? And how, exactly, do they keep getting erased?
In honor of the recent publication of the English edition of The Ottoman Scientific Heritage by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, translated by Maryam Patton, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and the Al-...