Symposium held in conjunction with the publication of the first books in the series The Image of the Black in Western Art by Harvard University Press, and the exhibition Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints, on view in the Rudenstine Gallery from September 2 through December 3, 2010.
Also in conjuction with the symposium is a screening of "Reflecting Skin" on Sunday, November 14, at 4:00pm in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge. Following the screening will be a discussion with novelist and filmmaker Bonnie Greer.
M. VICTOR LEVENTRITT SYMPOSIUM
Thompson Room, Barker Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Moderator
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
Speakers
“Race and Representation in Ancient Art: Black Athena and After”
Jeremy Tanner, Reader in Classical and Comparative Art Coordinator: MA Comparative Art and Archaeology, University College London
“‘Something American’: Slavery, Veronese, Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”
Paul Kaplan, Professor of Art History, State University of New York at Purchase
“Rembrandt’s Reclining Nude: is she black or white?”
Elmer Kolfin, Professor of Art History, University of Amsterdam
“Humor and the Slave Trade Debate”
David Bindman, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University College London
“Epiphany in the Archive”
Joseph Koerner, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
There will be a reception at the Du Bois Institute's Rudenstine Gallery directly following the symposium.