November 15, 2010
Image of the Black in Western Art - M. Victor Leventritt Symposium
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
The symposium is presented by the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and the Harvard Art Museums. Symposium funding has been generously provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund. The fund was established through the generosity of the wife, children and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
Moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
David Bindman
Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University College London
Paul Kaplan
Professor of Art History, State University of New York at Purchase
Joseph Koerner
Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Elmer Kolfin
Professor of Art History, University of Amsterdam
Jeremy Tanner
Reader in Classical and Comparative Art Coordinator: MA Comparative Art and Archaeology, University College London