Join the Art History Department on Thursday, November 6, at 5:30 pm, for a lecture by art historian Dana Leibsohn, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art at Smith College, entitled Shipwrecked Wax and Fallen Christs: On the Fortunes of Colonial Objects. Leibsohn’s research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern period.

This event is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the departments of Art History, History, Anthropology, and International Affairs; the Latin American, Caribbean & Latinx Studies Program; and the Tang.

About the Speaker

Dana Leibsohn’s current research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern period. She has published on indigenous maps and manuscripts, hybridity in colonial visual culture, the trade between China and Mexico, and the early modern history of Manila.

Leibsohn teaches courses on Latin American visual culture and histories of colonialism and early modern exchange. She also has a strong interest in digital technologies and team-teaches the interdisciplinary classes Digital Effects and Making Knowledge. In many of her courses students produce scholarship accessible to the public, including projects on contemporary artists, objects in local museums and historic maps.