Fall 2020

Social Identities in Ancient Egypt
Subject associations
ART 520 / CLA 525 / NES 501

Ancient Egyptians, like all people, had multiple, intersecting aspects to their identity that were linked profoundly to their social communities. What kinds of objects, images, and material traditions linked ancient people together? What material forms acted as crucial modes of communication within communities and among them? We examine a wide range of material culture considering various sections of society, and we then look in-depth at several ancient sites to examine how these various groups intersected in shared spaces and across time.

Instructors
Deborah A. Vischak
Seminar in Modernist Art and Theory: Modernism and Socialism
Subject associations
ART 565

This seminar explores various connections between modernist art and socialist politics from the 1848 revolutions to the present. How were these links forged, and why were they broken? What (if anything) can we deduce about the relationship between vanguard aesthetics and politics then and now?