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“Art” is a powerful mechanism for expressing a society’s ideas about and attitudes towards “others.” The representation of foreign cultures with manifest “racial” differences, such as unfamiliar physical traits or strange-seeming ethnic customs, has been a longstanding and often visceral site for human artistic expression. The visual and material culture of the Roman Empire (c. 100 BCE-200 CE) provides a particularly abundant record of such cultural encounters, which render visible complex formulations of foreignness, social hierarchy, and power.
 
This lecture focuses on how Roman artists represented Black Africans (sub-Saharan peoples) in different visual media and explores issues related to the patronage, production, and viewership of these works. It looks at the conventions of their imagery, the critical axioms of their study, different categories of their representation, and their contemporary re-presentation in a museum setting.
“Art” is a powerful mechanism for expressing a society’s ideas about and attitudes towards “others.” The representation of foreign cultures with manifest “racial” differences, such as unfamiliar physical traits or strange-seeming ethnic customs, has been a longstanding and often visceral site for human artistic expression. The visual and material culture of the Roman Empire (c. 100 BCE-200 CE) provides a particularly abundant record of such cultural encounters, which render visible complex formulations of foreignness, social hierarchy, and power.
 
This lecture focuses on how Roman artists represented Black Africans (sub-Saharan peoples) in different visual media and explores issues related to the patronage, production, and viewership of these works. It looks at the conventions of their imagery, the critical axioms of their study, different categories of their representation, and their contemporary re-presentation in a museum setting.
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Nov 24, 2019, 8:00am to 11:00am Timezone: CST
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