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Montague Lecture Hall 80, UMD
1151 University DrDuluth, MN 55812
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 | 6 pm | Dr. Martin Berger | Art History | Montague Hall 80
Lecture Title : Civil Rights Photography and the Politics of Race
Dr. Berger Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Berger came to SAIC from the University of California, Santa Cruz where he was professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture and served as the Associate Vice Provost of Academic Affairs and Associate Campus Diversity Officer. In his research, Berger considers the construction of gender and race in 19th-and-20th-century US art. His most recent book, Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle was published in 2013. His newest book project is Inventing Stereotype: Race, Arts, and 1920s America.