Symposium on Art in a State of Siege
Fri Mar 16, 2018
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Stephens Hall
This years Avenali Chair in the Humanities, Harvard art historian Joseph Leo Koerner, joins a panel of scholars to discuss the role of art in a society in which freedom is radically curtailed, such as Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa. Panelists engage with audience members in lively discussion about creative expression under an emergency state of siege."
Panel Participants:
Whitney Davis, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Joseph Leo Koerner, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
James Porter, Classics and Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Jane Taylor, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape