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FILM SCREENING from 5:15 – 7:00pm & DISCUSSION SESSION with Journalist and Documentary filmmaker SHIORI ITO from 7:00 – 7:45pm Reception: 7:45pm Journalist SHIORI ITO, the first Japanese documentary filmmaker to be nominated for an Academy Award, will appear in person for a screening and discussion of her Oscar-nominated documentary memoir Black Box Diaries (2024). […]
This talk, organized by the Korea Institute, reconsiders the relationship between art and politics, particularly in relation to the aesthetic representation of atrocity. Focusing on the genre of Kwangju fiction, Hanscom asks what kind of remembering is adequate to the traumatic event and how the representation of such memory can avoid both a cycle of […]
“The place where the creek goes underground” presents a series of newly commissioned works that form an archive of place-knowing, belonging, and kin-making. The project began with a series of conversations Anthony Romero held with brown and Indigenous artists, activists, and theorists on subjects of decolonial methodologies, gentrification, displacement, and food sovereignty. This exhibition offers […]
What would be lost without an understanding of art of the Black world? The Harvard course Art of the Black World (History of Art and Architecture 178V and African and African American Studies 178X) addresses this question through an introduction to the history and study of arts of the larger African diaspora. The University Teaching […]
How do individuals’ relative preferences for one side of the conflict over the other shape their evaluations of violence against civilians? An online survey experiment in Colombia suggests that people justify lenient punishments for their preferred side by characterizing their side’s violence as less harmful and less likely to be the responsibility of group leadership.