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Universal Rights?: A Dialogue

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Join internationally-recognized visual artist Banu Cennetoğlu, Harvard professor and award-winning author Sarah Lewis, and Barr Foundation President & CEO Ali Noorani in conversation with MassArt President Mary K. Grant for a timely discussion exploring...

Professor Sarah Lewis co-curates the "I Am Seen… Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass" exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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The Power of Memorials and Public Art: Complex Histories and Legacies Today

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Join Facing History & Ourselves for a special community event celebrating Boston’s newest memorial, The Embrace. This memorial, dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, is located on Freedom Plaza where the names of local civil rights...

Professor Sarah Lewis selected as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow

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Congratulations to Professor Sarah Lewis for being selected to the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow class. Established in 2015, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program awards scholars whose works address important issues confronting our society. Find out more here...

Pennington Lecture - Sarah Lewis, "Vision & Justice"

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April 21, 2022 6:00PM Register here Inaugural lecture, Vision & Justice by Dr. Sarah Lewis, Harvard University 5 pm - 6 pm: Pre-lecture reception; light refreshments will be served. Cash bar. 6 pm - 7 pm: Lecture Tickets are limited; advance registration...

Bettman Lecture Series: Sarah Lewis, “Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law”

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April 18, 2022 6:15 PM - 7:45 PM Register here. How are artists, and how are disciplines in the arts and humanities, responding to the hyper-visuality of racial injustices on American ground? This talk explores how visual artists including Mark Bradford...

“Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches”, new HBO documentary featuring Professor Sarah Lewis

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A new HBO documentary, “Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches”, will air on February 23rd at 9 pm. In the film, five of the seminal anti-slavery activist’s speeches will be performed, with context provided by scholars including Professor Sarah Lewis and...

Harvard Gazette: "Giving Carrie Mae Weems her due", an interview with Professor Sarah Lewis

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Professor Sarah Lewis spoke with the Harvard Gazette about the recent “October Files” journal she edited with HAA doctoral candidate Christine Garnier which explores the work of the influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems. “It is no exaggeration to...

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis Wins the 2022 Danto/ASA Prize

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The APA and the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) are pleased to announce that Professor Sarah Elizabeth Lewis has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize for her paper, “Groundwork: Race and...

"Carrie Mae Weems", a new volume of October Files, edited by Professor Sarah Lewis

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A new volume of October Files, edited by Professor Sarah Lewis, explores the work of the influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems—her invention and originality, the formal dimensions of her practice, and her importance to the history of photography...