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Hammer Art History Lecture by Shawon Kinew
Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CAGuest Speaker: Shawon Kinew (Harvard University) Shawon Kinew is an art historian of early modern Southern Europe at Harvard University and specializes in seventeenth-century Rome's art and theory. Her research on Roman Baroque sculpture focuses on the Maltese artist Melchiorre Cafà, who is the subject of a book manuscript in preparation, Baroque Softness: Melchiorre Cafà...
Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Kristina Richardson
Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CAGuest Speaker: Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia) Kristina Richardson is the John L. Nau Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on premodern non-elite Arab history, particularly the history of people with disabilities, users of sign language, Romani groups (ghurabā’), craftspeople, and enslaved laborers and entertainers. Her current book project is...
Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Carla Pestana
Striving for Expertise Guest Speaker: Carla Pestana (UCLA) Scholars often refer to Samuel Pepys as an early example of a state bureaucrat, his career as a civil servant in the burgeoning Restoration bureaucracy offering documentation of an important shift in governance. Of equal note—and perhaps greater interest—is the way Pepys himself aimed for expertise. Not...