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April 10 – Michelle Angela Ortíz

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Michelle Angela Ortíz
Visual Artist, Muralist, and Community Arts Educator

“Telling Their Stories: Engaging Communities through the Arts”

Michelle Angela Ortíz is a visual artist, skilled muralist, and community arts educator who has designed and created over thirty large-scale public murals in the United States and abroad. She uses her art as a vehicle to represent people and communities whose histories are often lost or co-opted. Through painting, printmaking, and public arts practices, she creates space for dialogue and action. Her work transforms “blighted” spaces into a visual affirmation that reveals the strength and spirit of the community.

For more information about Michelle Ortiz’s work, please see her website: www.michelleangela.com.

Made possible by the generous support of the Bryn Mawr College Center for Visual Culture, the departments of English, History of Art, Spanish, and Growth and Structure of Cities, the Dean of Graduate Studies, the Pensby Center, the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, the Center for Social Science, the Program in Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Peoples and Cultures, and the 1902  Lecture Fund.  Additional support provided by Enlace and the Intercultural Center, Swarthmore College.

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April 17-David Cast

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David Cast
Professor, Department of History of Art
Bryn Mawr College

“Inside/Outside: Germany/London”

The dismissal in the early 1930s of Jewish scholars from the universities of Germany led to an exodus of many such exiles to Britain. This talk describes, at the particular and general level, the opportunities and difficulties they experienced and how the horrors they lived through affected their attitudes towards their work, how they accommodated themselves to their new situation and how, especially in the History of Art, they changed the scholarly traditions in their adopted country.
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April 24 – Shari Frilot

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Shari Frilot
Senior Film and New Media Curator, Sundance Film Festival
2013 Tri-College Mellon Artist in Residence

“The Power of the Erotic: Curatorial Strategies at Sundance’s New Frontier”

Shari Frilot is senior programmer at the Sundance Film Festival and chief curator of the New Frontier at Sundance, an exhibition of cinematic work created at the intersections of art, film, and new media technology.  As a programmer and curator, Frilot reviews work from new artists, decides which projects are shown to the Sundance audience, and works to answer the question: How to show film art in an art film context?
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November 19 – artist Lisa Kereszi

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Please join us for an illustrated talk by artist Lisa Kereszi on Monday November 19 at 5pm in Taylor Hall Room C. This event is organized by Special Collections Art and Artifacts and presented with the support of the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library.

Lisa Kereszi (Born Chester, PA) presents images from and engages in a Q&A on her long-term project documenting her family’s Philadelphia-area scrap business (the subject of her new book, “Joe’s Junk Yard”) and several other bodies of photographic work. “Joe’s Junk Yard” was recently highlighted in the New York Times, and Philadelphia’s Space 1026 will host a solo exhibition of Kereszi’s work in January 2013.


http://lisakereszi.com/projects/joes-junk-yard

Before Lisa’s talk, please consider checking out Docu-Commencement: Kay Healy, Jennifer Levonian, James Johnson, and Gilbert Plantinga, the residency-based new-works exhibition on currently on view in the Class of 1012 Rare Book Room gallery in Canaday Library. We’ll keep the show open until just before 5.
http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibitions.html

Brian Wallace
Curator and Academic Liaison for Art and Artifacts
Bryn Mawr College
bwallace@brynmawr.edu
610.526.5335

November 12 – Jonathan Conant

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Jonathan Conant, Assistant Professor, Brown University
“Defying Attila: Slavery, Violence, and the Precariousness of Social Obligations in the Late Antique Mediterranean”
Monday, November 12, 2012, 5pm
Carpenter B21 (followed by a reception in the Quita Woodward Room)

In 443, Romans living along the empire’s Danube frontier defied the imperial administration and refused to accede to Attila the Hun’s demand that they surrender fellow citizens into captivity as the price of peace. At the same time, bishops throughout the Mediterranean—including Augustine of Hippo—found themselves confronted with the problem of free (or freed) Roman citizens being captured by slave traders and sold into bondage to their fellow Romans within the territory of the late Roman state. In light of the susceptibility of Roman populations to violent enslavement in late antiquity, this paper will explore fourth- and fifth-century conceptions of what members of a society owed one another, why, and how far those obligations extended.

This talk is held in connection with the Graduate Group seminar “Carthage: The View from Elsewhere”, and is sponsored by the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art.

November 2 – Michaël Darin Seminar

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The Center for Visual Culture and the Department of the Growth and Structure of Cities at Bryn Mawr College and the Art Department at Swarthmore College are offering a special seminar on 19th-century Paris and have invited a scholar from Paris to address the subject of modern urban planning.

“La Comédie Urbaine” : Paris as an urban form

What makes Paris modern?  What went into the planning and shaping of Paris?  What is particular to its form and how did it come to be a model for urban planning?  How is its form studied?

Michaël Darin, Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture of Strasbourg, France, has taught and published widely in the field of architectural history and urbanism, with recent publications including studies on Paris’ morphology, “La Comédie Urbaine” (2009) and “Pathworks parisiens, petites leçons d’urbanisme ordinaire” (2012), and various studies on Tel-Aviv, La Roche-sur-Yon and Pontivy, as well as articles concerning the history of the boulevard and topics in 20th-century architecture.

If interested in Paris, urban studies and/or architecture, you are encouraged to participate.  The event will be in English.

 11:00  Friday, Nov. 2, 2012
Ely Room, Wyndham
Bryn Mawr College

Lunch will follow the seminar.

Bryn Mawr students, please RSVP to Jeffrey Cohen, jcohen@brynmawr.edu
All other students, please RSVP to Min Kyung Lee, mlee5@swarthmore.edu

September 26 – José Galvez Lecture

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You are invited to a public lecture sponsored by

Mujeres, LALIPC, the Center for Visual Culture, the Department of Spanish, and the Department of History

José Galvez
Photograper and Writer

will give the

National Hispanic American Heritage Month Keynote Lecture
on the Latino/a Experience in America captured through his photography

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Wednesday, September 26
7:30 pm
Thomas Great Hall

A reception will be held at 5:30 pm in Special Collections, 2nd floor of Canaday Library

– In addition to his lecture, a selection of Mr Galvez’s photographic work will be displayed on the second floor of Canaday Library throughout the fall semester. –

About José Galvez:
For over 40 years, José Galvez has used black and white film to create a powerful and unparalleled historical record of the Latino experience in America. His compelling work, done with respect, pride and no pretense, captures the beauty of daily life. For José, photographing the lives of Latinos is not a one-time project or “current passion” but a lifelong commitment. As an artist, he photographs nothing else. His personal history, love of family, and cultural knowledge enable him to pursue his work with a reverent understanding of the stories behind the images.

September 27 – Nancy Wilke Lecture in Archaeological Heritage

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From Columns to Corridors: An American Legacy in Restoration and Cultural Policy Abroad
Christina Luke, Boston University
Co-sponsored by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

Classroom 2, Penn Museum
3260 South Street, Philadelphia. Use the Kress Entrance (at the east)
Time: 6:15 pm

For information and to join the speaker for dinner contact aiaphiladelphia@gmail.com; 484-278-4379.

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October 11 – Henry Maguire Lecture

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Meadows of Delight: Metaphor and Denial in Byzantine and Western Medieval Art

Henry Maguire
Professor Emeritus of Art History, John Hopkins University
Thursday, October 11, 5:00pm, Carpenter B21

After the eighth century, motifs from nature, such as animals and plants, were more prominently displayed in Western churches than in those of the Byzantines, sometimes even appearing in the principal apses, in direct imitation of early Christian models.  In Byzantium, there was a rich literary tradition of verbal and written metaphors drawn from nature, especially addressed to the Virgin, but the art of Byzantine churches often excluded all reference to nature from holy images.   This presentation explores the root causes of this division between Eastern and Western art, which is to be found in contrasting attitudes toward the sacred image.  In Byzantium, a fear of venerating nature lingered after Iconoclasm, while in the West, animals and plants lost much of their association with idolatry, becoming, instead, a language for understanding the divine.

Reception immediately following the lecture, London Room, Thomas Hall

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the University Seminars Program of the Onassis Foundation (USA), The Center for Visual Culture and the Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College