This spring, the Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program hosts a series of presentations by renowned scholars on a wide range of topics, from sociopolitical themes in Latin American art to how urban warfare shapes history and photography. Lectures take place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. All Research and Academic Program (RAP) lectures are free and begin at 5:30 pm. A 5 pm reception in the Manton Research Center reading room precedes each event.
03/17: Sur Marica, A Mobile Cartography of Art, Sex, Affect, and Collaboration in the Americas with Luis Vargas-Santiago
04/10: Technical Difficulties: Early Color Photography and Conditioned Viewing with Rachel Lee Hutcheson
04/28: Cities as Battlegrounds: How Urban Warfare Shapes – and is Shaped by – the Lens of History and Photography with Alice Miceli
05/05: Global Slavery: A visual History with Ana Lucia Araujo