Discovery & Inspiration

Discovery & Inspiration


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Naomi André, “A History of Blackness in Opera”
November 03, 2023

As an art form, opera has proven to be simultaneo…

Brian Lewis, “George Cecil Ives and the Transformation of Discourses on Sexuality”
November 03, 2023

The British writer, reformer, and criminologist G…

Gregg Hecimovich, “The Zealy Daguerreotypes: Confronting Images of Enslavement”
November 03, 2023

In March 1850, five men and two women were photog…

Elena Machado Sáez, “Activism and Resistance in Contemporary Latinx Theater”
November 03, 2023

Theatrical productions allow playwrights and audi…

Jontyle Robinson, “Curating Change: ‘Bearing Witness’ and Legacy of African American Women Artists”
November 03, 2023

In 1996, an exhibition entitled “Bearing Witness:…

W. Jason Miller, “Nina Simone and Langston Hughes: Collaborators Across Genres”
October 28, 2023

The influence that Nina Simone and Langston Hughe…

Nancy F. Cott, “Accidental Internationalists: American Journalists Abroad Between the World Wars”
November 21, 2022

This lecture illuminates the field of internation

Paul S. Sutter, “Public Health and the Panama Canal”
November 07, 2022

When the Panama Canal opened in 1914, it not only

Paul Ushang Ugor, “Socially Responsible Cinema: Femi Odugbemi’s Artistic Vision”
October 31, 2022

For the past twenty years, Nigerian filmmaking ha

Maggie M. Cao, “Imperial Painting: Nineteenth-Century Art and the Making of American Empire”
October 24, 2022

Nineteenth-century American paintings frequently