Founded by Douglas Fraser in 1970, this seminar addresses major issues in the fields of African, Oceanic, Native American, and pre-Hispanic Latin American arts. The seminar provides an opportunity for members to analyze, evaluate, and discuss new and continuing research, as well as various trends in scholarship. Because the membership is comprised of art historians, curators, archeologists, anthropologist, and other field specialists, seminar meetings frequently involve indepth discussions of theoretical and methodological issues.
Graduate students in the art history and archaeology of Africa, Oceania, or the Americas, who are interested in serving as this seminar's Rapporteur, an hourly position funded by the University Seminars office, should email a statement of interest to Prof. Strother and Prof. Trever by March 15, for consideration for the following academic year.
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Anna Blume
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Anna Blume
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Susan Gagliardi
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Susan Gagliardi
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Richard Burger
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Richard Burger
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Michael Taussig
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Michael Taussig
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Frank Salomon
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Frank Salomon
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Kristine Juncker
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Kristine Juncker
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: 'Thinking with Things': A Symposium in Honor of Professor Esther Pasztory, Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor in Pre-Columbian Art History
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: 'Thinking with Things': A Symposium in Honor of Professor Esther Pasztory, Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor in Pre-Columbian Art History
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Duncan Caldwell, "Decoding the Adena Tablets: New interpretations of the 'Mound Builder' tablets"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Duncan Caldwell, "Decoding the Adena Tablets: New interpretations of the 'Mound Builder' tablets"
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Aaron Glass, "The Potlatch Ethic and the Spirit of Cannibalism: Ethnographic Mediation and the Making of a Northwest Coast Ritual Icon"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Aaron Glass, "The Potlatch Ethic and the Spirit of Cannibalism: Ethnographic Mediation and the Making of a Northwest Coast Ritual Icon"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Lisa Homann, "Privileging Islam in a West African Masquerade: Zara White Masks in Burkina Faso"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Lisa Homann, "Privileging Islam in a West African Masquerade: Zara White Masks in Burkina Faso"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: James Maffie, "Toltecayotl: A Nahua Understanding of the Well-Balanced Life"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: James Maffie, "Toltecayotl: A Nahua Understanding of the Well-Balanced Life"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Giulia Paoletti, "Iconophilia and Islam: Lithography, Glass Painting and Photography in Twentieth Century Senegal"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Giulia Paoletti, "Iconophilia and Islam: Lithography, Glass Painting and Photography in Twentieth Century Senegal"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Damian Skinner, "Indigenous and Settler Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Canada in ‘New Commonwealth Internationalism’"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Damian Skinner, "Indigenous and Settler Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Canada in ‘New Commonwealth Internationalism’"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Sandrine Colard, "Double Exposure: The Congolese Bourgeoisie in the Colonial and Family Photo Album"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Sandrine Colard, "Double Exposure: The Congolese Bourgeoisie in the Colonial and Family Photo Album"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Maia Nuku, "Atea: Coming into the Light. Thinking Through Nature and Divinity in 18th Century Polynesia"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Maia Nuku, "Atea: Coming into the Light. Thinking Through Nature and Divinity in 18th Century Polynesia"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Risham Majeed, "The Artist's Historian: Meyer Schapiro on African and Romanesque Art in the 1920s"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Risham Majeed, "The Artist's Historian: Meyer Schapiro on African and Romanesque Art in the 1920s"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, "The Bleeding Conch Vase: New Insights on Sexuality in Ancient Maya Art"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, "The Bleeding Conch Vase: New Insights on Sexuality in Ancient Maya Art"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Jacopo Baron, "Ambrym Sand Drawings: Field Notes on a Melanesian Way to Memory"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Jacopo Baron, "Ambrym Sand Drawings: Field Notes on a Melanesian Way to Memory"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Rowland O. Abiodun, "Modernist Trends in Yoruba Art"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Rowland O. Abiodun, "Modernist Trends in Yoruba Art"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Matthew Spellberg, "Art and Aliveness in the Pacific Northwest"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Matthew Spellberg, "Art and Aliveness in the Pacific Northwest"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Lisa Trever, "Denaturalizing Moche Naturalism"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Lisa Trever, "Denaturalizing Moche Naturalism"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Sandy Prita Meier, "A Sea of Things: Early Photography on the Swahili Coast"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Sandy Prita Meier, "A Sea of Things: Early Photography on the Swahili Coast"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Severin Fowles, "The Curious Case of Coronado’s Shields: Towards an Iconology of Pueblo Visual Culture on the Eve of Spanish Colonialism"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Severin Fowles, "The Curious Case of Coronado’s Shields: Towards an Iconology of Pueblo Visual Culture on the Eve of Spanish Colonialism"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Rosemary Joyce, "An Alchemy of Pre-Hispanic Honduras"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Rosemary Joyce, "An Alchemy of Pre-Hispanic Honduras"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Roberto Conduru, "Magic, Crime, and Culture in early 20th Century Brazilian Black Art"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Roberto Conduru, "Magic, Crime, and Culture in early 20th Century Brazilian Black Art"
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Joanne Pillsbury, "Conceiving the Encyclopedic: The Founding Decades of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1870-1914)"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Joanne Pillsbury, "Conceiving the Encyclopedic: The Founding Decades of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1870-1914)"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Mary Weismantel, “Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Mary Weismantel, “Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots"
6:30 PM - 8:00 AM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Yaëlle Biro, “On Oscillation of Value: The Unsettled Market for African Art in the 1920s"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Yaëlle Biro, “On Oscillation of Value: The Unsettled Market for African Art in the 1920s"
Zoom Webinar
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Lawrence Waldron, "The Island Deified: Regarding the Symbolism of Caribbean Three-Pointer Stones"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Lawrence Waldron, "The Island Deified: Regarding the Symbolism of Caribbean Three-Pointer Stones"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Ingrid Ahlgren, "Covering and Revealing: The Social Lives of Marshall Islands and Mat Collections"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Ingrid Ahlgren, "Covering and Revealing: The Social Lives of Marshall Islands and Mat Collections"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.TO BE RESCHEDULED: University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Allison Caplan, "Body, Remembered: The Concept of Skin in Nahua Lost-Wax Gold Casting"
TO BE RESCHEDULED: University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Allison Caplan, "Body, Remembered: The Concept of Skin in Nahua Lost-Wax Gold Casting"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Matthew Francis Rarey, "Mapping Marronage: A Fugitive Landscape in Colonial Brazil, September 1763"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Matthew Francis Rarey, "Mapping Marronage: A Fugitive Landscape in Colonial Brazil, September 1763"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Ingrid Ahlgren, "Covering and Revealing: The Social Lives of Marshall Islands Mats and Mat Collections"
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Ingrid Ahlgren, "Covering and Revealing: The Social Lives of Marshall Islands Mats and Mat Collections"
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Allison Caplan, 'Body, Remembered: The Concept of Skin in Nahua Lost-Wax Gold Casting'
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Allison Caplan, 'Body, Remembered: The Concept of Skin in Nahua Lost-Wax Gold Casting'
934 Schermerhorn Hall
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Andrew Roddick, 'Visual Economies and Emergent Aesthetics in the Terminal Formative Period (AD 400-600) in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia'
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Andrew Roddick, 'Visual Economies and Emergent Aesthetics in the Terminal Formative Period (AD 400-600) in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia'
934 Schermerhorn Hall
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Dr. Yomi Ola (Spelman College), 'Negotiated Space in Contemporary Nigerian Art'
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Dr. Yomi Ola (Spelman College), 'Negotiated Space in Contemporary Nigerian Art'
Zoom
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Jeronimo Duarte Riascos, LAIC, Columbia University
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Jeronimo Duarte Riascos, LAIC, Columbia University
934 Schermerhorn Hall
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Alexander Alberro, 'Ch’ixi Epistemology and "The Potosí Principle" in the Twenty-First Century'
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Alexander Alberro, 'Ch’ixi Epistemology and "The Potosí Principle" in the Twenty-First Century'
934 Schermerhorn Hall
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Dr. Megan E. O'Neill, Emory University
University Seminar in Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Dr. Megan E. O'Neill, Emory University
934 Schermerhorn Hall
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.AAOA Seminar: Christopher Steiner (Connecticut College), 'Rereading the Missionary Archive: Dr. George W. Harley In and Out of the African Art Market'
AAOA Seminar: Christopher Steiner (Connecticut College), 'Rereading the Missionary Archive: Dr. George W. Harley In and Out of the African Art Market'
Zoom
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Reception in Memory of Francesco Pellizzi
Reception in Memory of Francesco Pellizzi
Stronach Center
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.University Seminar in Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Trenton Barnes, "The Problem of Plurality in the Teotihuacan Walking Scenes"
University Seminar in Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: Trenton Barnes, "The Problem of Plurality in the Teotihuacan Walking Scenes"
934 Schermerhorn Hall
6:30 PM - 7:45 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone. AAOA | Professor Dorota Biczel, PhD (Barnard College), A New Icon for a Transformed Metropolis: EPS Huayco, Sarita Colonia, and Emancipatory Promises of Migrant Visual Cultures in the 1980s Lima
AAOA | Professor Dorota Biczel, PhD (Barnard College), A New Icon for a Transformed Metropolis: EPS Huayco, Sarita Colonia, and Emancipatory Promises of Migrant Visual Cultures in the 1980s Lima
934 Schermerhorn Hall
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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