Announcement: Dr. Steve Hoelscher gives keynote lecture on photographer Elliott Erwitt
The following information on the photographer and exhibition comes to us from the Boca Raton Museum of Art:
Elliott Erwitt is a renowned documentary photographer who melds substance and enchantment into his work. This exhibition features over 80 images hand selected by the artist himself.Born in Paris, Erwitt and his family fled Europe for the United States at the onset of World War II. Iconic images by Mr. Erwitt include John F. Kennedy, Che Guevara, and Marilyn Monroe with the skirt of her white dress wafting around her legs as she posed over a New York City subway grate. His spectacular sense of humor and joy is evident in his work that captures quotidian life in urban surroundings.
Announcement: Deborah Willis Lecture This Thursday
On Thursday, September 18, Deborah Willis (NYU) will give a lecture as part of this year's Flair Symposium at the Harry Ransom Center. The Flair Symposium theme for 2014 is Cultural Life During Wartime, 1861-1865, and Dr. Willis will discuss the early years of American photography alongside a reading of iconic moments in Gone With The Wind whilst examining the role black history played in producing such a controversial and celebrated cultural phenomenon. The lecture will take place in Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall at 6:30pm.
Announcement: Ari Kelman Lectures on the Memory of the Sand Creek Massacre This Friday
Listen up, Austin! This Friday at noon, Ari Kelman will give a public lecture entitled "A Misplaced Massacre: Sand Creek in History and Memory" in Burdine 108. Kelman is the author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek (Harvard UP, 2013). This lecture is sponsored by the American Studies Department, the Institute for Historical Studies, and Native American and Indigenous Studies, and we'd love to see you there!
The following comes to us from Kelman:
For nearly a century and a half, the Sand Creek Massacre has been at the center of struggles over history and memory in the American West: from the government investigations launched in the massacre's immediate aftermath; to the controversial work of so-called Indian reformers, including Helen Hunt Jackson, writing late in the nineteenth century; to memorials erected in Colorado during the era of the Cold War; to the impact of popular histories, like Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; to the recently opened Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site.
