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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:"Human Bridges in the Study of Race, Religion, Art, and Politics" with K. Healon Gaston & Steven Harris
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SUMMARY:"Human Bridges in the Study of Race, Religion, Art, and Politics" with K. Healon Gaston & Steven Harris
DESCRIPTION:<p>This talk will explore teaching about difference in a Divinity School course that looks at&nbsp;connections between the Harlem&nbsp;Renaissance and Mexican Modernism during the 1920s and&nbsp;1930s. Using holiday-themed examples and compelling visual images,&nbsp;we will juxtapose the lives&nbsp;and works of two important figures in the course: Miguel Covarrubias, a Mexican-born caricaturist&nbsp;who&nbsp;spent most of his life in New York City illustrating for Harlem Renaissance texts and popular&nbsp;magazines, and Elizabeth Catlett, a&nbsp;U.S.-born Black sculptor and printmaker who spent her life in&nbsp;Mexico where she created some of the most powerful symbols and&nbsp;images of the Black Arts&nbsp;Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Covarrubias and Catlett captured our students' imaginations&nbsp;in part&nbsp;because they serve as "human bridges" connecting the United States with Mexico as well&nbsp;the past with the present. Please join for&nbsp;a lively and wide-ranging meditation on the dynamic&nbsp;interplay of race, religion, art, and politics, and the cross-fertilization between&nbsp;history and ethics.</p><p><strong>Speakers:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>K. Healan Gaston,&nbsp;</strong>Lecturer on American Religious History and Ethics (HDS)</li><li><strong>Steven Harris,&nbsp;</strong>P.h.D. student in the Committee on the Study of Religion (GSAS)</li></ul>
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