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Brian Lewis, “George Cecil Ives and the Transformation of Discourses on Sexuality”
The British writer, reformer, and criminologist G…
Naomi André, “A History of Blackness in Opera”
As an art form, opera has proven to be simultaneo…
Jontyle Robinson, “Curating Change: ‘Bearing Witness’ and Legacy of African American Women Artists”
In 1996, an exhibition entitled “Bearing Witness:…
Gregg Hecimovich, “The Zealy Daguerreotypes: Confronting Images of Enslavement”
In March 1850, five men and two women were photog…
Elena Machado Sáez, “Activism and Resistance in Contemporary Latinx Theater”
Theatrical productions allow playwrights and audi…
W. Jason Miller, “Nina Simone and Langston Hughes: Collaborators Across Genres”
The influence that Nina Simone and Langston Hughe…
Nancy F. Cott, “Accidental Internationalists: American Journalists Abroad Between the World Wars”
This lecture illuminates the field of internation
Paul S. Sutter, “Public Health and the Panama Canal”
When the Panama Canal opened in 1914, it not only
Paul Ushang Ugor, “Socially Responsible Cinema: Femi Odugbemi’s Artistic Vision”
For the past twenty years, Nigerian filmmaking ha
Maggie M. Cao, “Imperial Painting: Nineteenth-Century Art and the Making of American Empire”
Nineteenth-century American paintings frequently