The Kongo South: Roots of Black Dance, Gesture and Music
Robert Farris Thompson
Wednesday, 30 Nov 2005 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Robert Farris Thompson is the Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University, and Master of Timothy Dwight College. He has taught African and African American Art at Yale since 1961, and has served as visiting curator at UCLA's Museum of Ethnic Arts and at the National Gallery of Art. He has organized several major exhibitions, including The Four Moments of the Sun (1981) and The Face of the Gods: Shrines and Altars of the Black Atlantic World (1985) at the National Gallery of Art. He has served on the Joint Committee on African Studies of the Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, as Chairman on the Humanities Committee of the African Studies Association, and in numerous capacities at Yale. He received his undergraduate degree, masters and doctorate from Yale University.Cosponsored By:
- CEAH
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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