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Events
Fall 2008
'Jewish Artist and Black Africans in Renaissance Art'
Tuesday, October 7, 5:30-7:00pm
Granoff Music Center, room 155
Tomasso Lecture with Paul Kaplan
Paul Kaplan is a Professor of Art History at SUNY, Purchase. His
doctoral dissertation examined the image of black Africans in European
art up to 1520. He published The Rise of the Black Magus in Western
Art, 1985 and many articles in this field. He served as Project
Scholar for the artist Fred Wilson's Installation in the American
Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, an exploration of the role of black
Africans in Venetian art and society entitled "Speak of Me as I Am." He
is also a specialist in the political iconography of Venetian
Renaissance art, with particular emphasis on the works of Giorgione and
Veronese. His current projects include a study of martial imagery in
Giorgione, and a comprehensive treatment of the social position and
representation of black Africans in Venetian culture. Professor Kaplan
is currently a research fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at
Harvard University. Co-sponsored by Africa and the New World.
'The Traditional Arab City and Urban Modernization in the 19th
and 20th Centuries'
Tuesday, November 18, 5:30-7:00pm
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th
fl.
André Raymond, Professor Emeritus, Université
de Provence, France
André Raymond has served as Director of the French Institute of Arab
Studies of Damascus (IFEAD), Professor at the University of Provence,
Visiting Professor at Harvard and Princeton Universities, Founding
Director of IREMAM in Aix-en-Provence, Vice-President of the Institut du
Monde Arabe (Paris), Founding President of the French Association for
the Study of the Arab and Muslim World (AFEMAM), and Founding President
of EURAMES. His publications include: La Tunisie (1961),
Artisans et commerçants au Caire au XVIIIe siècle (l974), The
Great Arab Cities: An Introduction (l984), Grandes villes arabes
à l'époque ottomane (1985), Ibn Abî l-Diyâf: Chronique des Rois
de Tunis (l994), Le Caire des janissaires (1995), Bâlis II
(with J.-L. Paillet, l995), Egyptiens et Français au Caire. 1798-18O1
(1998), La ville arabe: Alep, à l'époque ottomane (1998), Le
Caire (ed., 2OO1), Arab Cities in the Ottoman Period (2OO2),
Le Dîwân du Caire. 1800-1801 (with M. Afifi, 2003), Le
Mouradites, Tunis, Cérès (2006), and The City in the Islamic
World (forthcoming). Co-Sponsored with The Fares Center for
Eastern Mediterranean Studies.
'Icons in Early Armenia'
Wednesday, November 19, 5:30-7:00pm
Sophia Gordon Hall, 15
Talbot Avenue
Thomas Mathews, John Langeloth Loeb Professor
Emeritus, New York Institute of Art
Thomas Mathews was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Society of
Jesus (Jesuits) from Weston College, Somerset, UK. After his ordination
he returned to the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, studying
under the Byzantinist Hugo Buchthal and writing his dissertation on
early churches in Constantinople under Richard Krautheimer. He received
a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship at the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome. While a
Guest Curator for the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, with a grant
from the N.E.H., he organized the "Treasures in Heaven" exhibit of
Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts. A fellowship at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, led to his appointment on the Visiting
Committee of Medieval Art and the Cloisters. He was a senior fellow at
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC., and in 2003 he received a J. Paul Getty
Trust Collaborative Research Grant, to research his "From Pagan to
Byzantine Icons in Late Antique Egypt. Co-Sponsored with the
Department of Classics.
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