
May 2022
Art & the Black Muslim Image: Panel Conversations
A Zoom discussion on the essays from "Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic." Special issue of The Muslim World Journal. PANEL III: Joseph Cinque: Reframing and a Digital Reading 12:50pm – 1:40pm • Moderator: Nick Mumejian • Rebecca Hankins, Wendler Endowed Professor & Archivist/Librarian Texas A&M University • Laura Macaluso, Independent Scholar & Art Historian Author, Public Art in Hartford (forthcoming) • Brief Q&A
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Chicago Summer School
The Chicago Summer School focuses on the American roots of Modernism. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, progressive architects and patrons moved the city to the forefront of technological and aesthetic experimentation. Through expert lectures and tours, course directors Tina Strauss ad John Waters lead a survey of 19th and early 20th century architecture, design, art, landscape and preservation.
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The Place of the Urban Past before “Public History,” 1850-1960
Historians that have studied the experience of modernity have often looked to periods of industrialisation and urbanisation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many approaches and definitions of modernity co-exist, but, in general, an element of rupture – a distinctive and often conscious break with the past – has dominated. Yet ‘the past’ did not necessarily disappear with urban transformations. Both the historic environment, and civic understandings of history within that space, could be used as a way to…
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Annual Meeting: Right Here, Right Now, The Power of Place
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