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Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

Harvard Art Museums Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join Caitlin Clerkin for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by […]

Graduate and Undergraduate Research Lightning Round

We’re now accepting abstracts for an opportunity to present at our Lightning Round Research Presentations which will take place as a hybrid event in Iowa City and virtually via Zoom. This lightning round is open to undergraduate and graduate students from Iowa colleges and universities. We welcome abstracts from anthropology, archaeology, art history, classics, history, […]

April 29, 2023: Toys, Burial Goods or Ritual Objects? – West African figurines and their archaeological traces presented by André Luiz Ruivo Ferreira Burmann, PhD candidate Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Pre- and Protohistory of Africa, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Abstract: West African figurines are a notable part of the world heritage. Both legally and illegally, they were (and continue to be) collected and exhibited in museums and collections all over the world. Studies of these impressive 3D representations of humans, animals, and hybrid beings have focused mainly on formal, iconographic and stylistic aspects of […]