Annual MCHS Forum

The Florida State University Department of Art History and the Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies (MCHS) Program Presents:

Heritage, Tourism, and Race: A Conversation with Dr. Antoinette Jackson

Thursday, February 22, 2024, 3-5 pm
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The 3rd Annual MCHS Forum will be held on Thursday, February 22, 2024.  This year’s Forum will feature a presentation by Dr. Antoinette T. Jackson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa and Director of the USF Heritage Research Lab. Her publications include Speaking for the Enslaved—Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites (Routledge, 2012) and Heritage, Tourism, and Race: The Other Side of Leisure (Routledge, 2020).  Her presentation will be followed by an interview with Dr. Jackson, in conversation with Dr. Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Director of the MCHS Program and Associate Professor of Art History.

A Q & A session will follow the interview, and light refreshments will be served.

JOSHUA I. COHEN

Associate Professor of Art History at the City College of New York & CUNY Graduate Center

Wednesday, January 31 at 5 pm

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On January 31, the Department of Art History will inaugurate a lecture series in which visiting scholars introduce aspects of their new or forthcoming monographs. The first speaker, Joshua I. Cohen, Associate Professor of Art History at the City College of New York & CUNY Graduate Center, specializes in twentieth-century francophone West Africa, southern Africa, and connections to Europe and the United States. His first monograph, The “Black Art” Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents (University of California Press, 2020), examines the role of African art in multiple modernisms.

Cohen’s upcoming lecture at FSU, “African Modernism in an Opaque Field of Production,” derives from his second book project, tentatively titled Art of the Opaque: African Modernisms, Decolonization, and the Cold War. The lecture is open to the public in room 2005 William Johnston Building. The Department of Art History invites any members of the FSU community with interests in Africa’s diasporas, the global Cold War, and decolonization.

Header image: Souleymane Keita (Senegalese, 1947-2014), Voyage au Mali, c 1980-85, oil on canvas, 129 x 160 cm. Image courtesy of Galerie Cécile Fakhoury; photograph by Guillaume Bassinet.