VK Preston, Department of History at Concordia University (Montreal), “Intangible Baroques in Natural History: Entangled Indigenous and Settler Knowledge in Early Archives” (Harvard MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies)
Date:
Monday, December 5, 2022, 5:00pm
Location:
Online on Zoom. To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom (see detailed announcement for the link).
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-...