Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Debora Silverman: 'The Great Forgetting' and the Never Seen

On Monday March 19th, the Newcomb Art Department and the Art History Graduate Association present: 

“‘The Great Forgetting’ and the Never Seen: Violence, Modernism, and the Visual Unconscious of Belgian Colonialism at the Tervuren Royal Museum for Central Africa, 1897-2017”

a talk by by Debora Silverman, Distinguished Professor of History and Art History at UCLA and the University of California Presidential Chair in Modern European History, Art and Culture.

The lecture will analyze the relationship between Belgian Art Nouveau and the country’s violent colonial rule in the Congo Free State.

Monday, March 19th at 6:30pm
Stone Auditorium, 210 Woldenberg Art Center 
Tulane University

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