The School of Humanities welcomes everyone to join Fay Yarbrough ’97, professor history and associate dean for undergraduate programs and special projects in the School of Humanities, on April 14 at 12 p.m., online for a Humanities NOW conversation with Olivia K. Young, assistant professor of African diasporic art, Department of Art History; affiliated faculty, Center for African and African American Studies.
Register here for the Zoom link.
This talk explores the speculative aesthetic interventions of black contemporary artists. Through a close reading of Nekisha Durrett’s 2018 installation James Baldwin, Young will evoke “black op art” as a new lens of analysis to consider alternative ways of engaging race in the visual realm.
Humanities NOW conversation - open to all Rice undergraduates, regardless of major, as well as prospective students and all members of the Rice community - provide a sense of the wide variety of work scholars in the humanities are engage in an how this work connects to current problems we face in society.