Talitha Washington, February 1, 2024
Dr. Talitha Washington, February 1 and 2, 2024.
Visiting Scholars
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Campus Visits
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the many partners:
Past Visits
Gabrielle Foreman, February 23, 2023
Dr. Gabrielle Foreman, February 23 and 24, 2023. Public lecture on Edgefield Potter David Drake on Feb 23 at 4:30-5:45 in the Lumpkin Auditorium. Book signing following panel discussion.
Please download the lecture introduction [PDF]
8:30 to 9:45 am Class visit: Topic: “Writing about Slavery/Teaching about Slavery:
This Might Help”
Course: Introduction to Southern Studies 1580-1900
Professor: Dr. Jennifer Gunter
Department: Southern Studies
Location: Close Hipp Building, room 363
1:15 to 2:30 pm Class visit: Topic: “Writing about Slavery/Teaching about Slavery:
This Might Help”
Course: AFAM 200 Freedom Papers: Narratives of Race and Nation (An America Founding
Documents core course requirement)
Professor: Dr. Rod Taylor
Department of African American Studies
Location: Petigru College, room 212
4:30 to 5:45 pm Public Lecture: His Page Was Clay: The Artistic Legacies of the Poet and Potter, David Drake
Speakers: Gabrielle Foreman and Glenis Redmond
Close-Hipp Building, Room 830, Lumpkin Auditorium
Welcome by Professor Dianne Johnson-Feelings
Moderated conversation by Dr. Abbe Schriber, Assistant Professor of African American
Studies and Art History
Book signing at the conclusion of the program
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2:30 to 3:30 pm: “Why Digital Histories and Research Matter”
Open invitation to up to twenty students who will register via Eventbrite
Location: CAS Computer Center (PC Lab), Gambrell Hall room 003A
Please visit Eventbrite to register for this free workshop. Space is limited to 20 attendees.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the many partners:
USC Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion grant
College of Arts and Sciences' Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Department of African American Studies
Ken Ono, November 10-11, 2022
Ken Ono is the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Virginia and former Vice President of the American Mathematical Society. He holds two endowed professorships; he is the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, and the Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics. He is presently the Chair of Mathematics in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a film producer and member of the board of the Infinity Arts Foundation.
11:40 am to 12:55 pm: Classroom visit
SVAD/Media Arts/Film & Media Studies students
6:00 to 7:00pm: Public Lecture: Why does Ramanujan, “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” matter?Williams-Brice (Nursing) 231
Reception to follow
9:40 to 10:30am: Class Visit to MATH 574
Gambrell 205
12:00 to - 1:30pm: Lunch talk: “Tales from a living breathing mathematician”
Pi Mu Epsilon/Gamecock Math Club
Petigru 108
4:30 to 5:30pm: Mathematics Colloquium: “Variants of Lehmer's Conjecture on Ramanujan's
tau-function”
Petigru 108
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the many partners:
Department of Mathematics
School of Visual Art and Design
Film and Media Studies
Media Arts
College of Arts and Sciences
South Carolina Honors College
Adriana Zavala, February 24-25, 2022
Adriana Zavala is a jointly appointed Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University.
1:15-2:30: Visit to ARTH class "Twentieth Century Art: Art and Justice in the 20th
Century" (McMaster 214)
“Latinx Art, History, and Institutions”
In this workshop, I introduce students to some of my favorite contemporary artists.
We explore their cultural background and art, while also discussing Latinx art’s cultural
and political specificity and its flux in history and in relation to other art historical
categories like “American” art or “Latin American” art, as well as more specific group
identities like Chicana/o/x, Diasporican, Cuban-American, etc.
4:30-5:45: Public lecture: “Of bodies and borders”, McKissick Museum Theater
This lecture examines works by Latin American-descended visual artists living in the
United States, that is to say Latinx artists, whose lives have been marked by and
whose works explore the violence of colonialism, empire, and the ongoing politicization
of borders. Through a reading of art works by Adriana Corral, Teresita Fernández,
Guadalupe Maravilla, Carlos Martiel, Sandy Rodriguez, and Juan Sánchez, I explore
how racialization as a violent form of social differentiation cannot be separated
from the critical study of geopolitical power. As a scholar of both Mexican and U.S.
Latinx art and visual culture, I will address the necessity of intersectional scholarship
and praxis, and the importance of generosity, care, and witnessing in these troubled
times. *Note: because of the topic of this lecture, some of the works presented can
be challenging for some audiences.
9:40-10:30am: Visit to GEOG 210 class “People, Places, and Environment” (Callcott
011)
“Resurrecting Mexico-Tenochtitlan, 1521-2021”
Modern-day Mexico City sits atop the ruins of the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan,
which was founded in 1325, overthrown by Spanish invaders in 1521 and demolished in
1523. While fragments, or spolia, of Tenochtitlan’s physical remains had been present
within the city’s urban fabric since the sixteenth century, new archaeological findings
at the turn of the 20th century—such as the definitive identification of the site
of great teocalli (temple pyramid), captivated the minds and imaginations of some
of the country’s most prominent nationalist thinkers from author and statesman Alfonso
Reyes, to anthropologist Manuel Gamio, architect Ignacio Marquina, and visual artists
Diego Rivera and Juan O’Gorman. This lecture will explore key moments and articulations
of the modern “resurrection” of Tenochtitlan and will invite the public to reflect
on what lessons the 2021 quincentennial of Tenochtitlan’s capture and destruction
offer for us today.
Noon: Lunch and Q&A at Carolina International House at Maxcy College (advance registration
required)
Talk and Q&A on Frida Kahlo’s Creativity: Staging Art, Staging Life
In this lecture I explore Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s creativity in the context of
the cultural renaissance that followed the Mexican Revolution. Springing from the
exhibition Frida Kahlo: Art Garden Life, which I curated at the New York Botanical
Garden (2015), I offer a close examination of several of the artist’s most important
paintings to explain how Kahlo’s self-adornment and the artful arrangement of her
home and garden were equally important modes of creative expression. The presentation
concludes by touching upon the ways that other artists, ranging from Diego Rivera
to photographers like Nickolas Muray and Lola Álvarez Bravo, collaborated with Kahlo
to facilitate the promotion of her art, her cultural politics, and her image.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the many partners:
Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar Program
School of Visual Art and Design 2021-2022 Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
Latin American Studies Program
Spanish Program of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Walker Institute of International Studies
Carolina International House at Maxcy College
SC Commission for Minority Affairs Hispanic/Latino Affairs Division