The exhibition entitled “Iconic Choice” displays two Tyrolean artists who have confronted and dealt with the theme of graphic quality in utterly different ways in the art of painting.

When: Saturday, October 13, 6-9 pm
Where: UNO St. Claude Gallery
Who: Ina Hsu and Wolfgang Wirth

at the University of Innsbruck

by
Professor Nikki Brown

“After Katrina: A visual history of African American men in New Orleans, 2010-2012”

Professor Nikki Brown
„The Art of Black Power: African American Politics and the Women of the Black Arts Movement” 

Lunch Talks and Activities (All Lunchtalks are 12:30 – 1:30)

A Lecture by Dr. Pavel Szobi

When: Tuesday, September 4, 11:00 – 12:15
Where: Dr. Bischof’s Cold War Class (LA 172)

Dr. Richard D. Williamson

First Steps Toward Détente
American Diplomacy in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963

When: Tuesday, Sept. 11, 12:30 -1:30 pm
Where: Liberal Arts Lounge, LA 197

Writing biographies for a long time had been a male hegemonic project. Ever since Plutarch and Sueton composed their vitae of the greats of classical antiquity, to the medieval obsession with the hagiographies of holy men (and a few women) and saints, Vasari’s lives of great Renaissance artists, down to the French encyclopedists, Dr. Johnson and Lytton Strachey, as well as Ranke and Droysen the genre of biographical writing has become increasingly more refined. In the twentieth century male predominance has become contested and the (collective) lives of women, minorities and ordinary people are now the focus of biographical writing.