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Patricia Hills papers, circa 1900-2022

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8.3: Talks, Not Published , circa 1972-2019
3 Linear feet
Boxes 36-38

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Lists of Talks, circa 1980-2018
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Miscellaneous Talks, circa 1979-2014
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1972 Talks, circa 1972
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"The Museum and the Community" Address to Museum Workers Association Forum (Dec. 1973), 1973
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1974 Talks, circa 1974
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"The American Indian as a Theme in Art" Rutgers College (Apr. 10, 1974), circa 1974
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1975 Talks, circa 1975
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1976 Talks, circa 1976
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1978 Talks, circa 1978
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Comments on Richard Wilson's Paper, National Collection of Fine Arts Symposium (Apr. 13, 1978), circa 1978, 2019
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1979 Talks, circa 1978-1979
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1980 Talks, circa 1980
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Response to Wanda Corn's Colloquium Talk at the Wilson Center (Oct. 27, 1980), circa 1980
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1981 Talks, circa 1981
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1982 Talks, circa 1982
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"Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940-1960" Rutgets University Art Gallery Symposium (Feb. 13, 1982), circa 1982
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Gallery Talk for Lilla Cabot Perry: Paintings Exhibition at Boston Athenaeum Gallery (Mar. 10, 1982), circa 1982
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"The Image of Labot in the Fine Arts and Popular Arts, 1800-1940" University of Lowell (Apr. 30-May 1, 1982), circa 1982-1984
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1983 Talks, circa 1983
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"Looking at Women" Symposium for Elizabeth Nourse 1859-1938: A Salon Career at National Museum of American Art (Apr. 17, 1983), circa 1983
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"The American Tradition of Social Change" Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Lecture (May 15, 1983), circa 1983
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1984 Talks, circa 1984
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Jacob Lawrence Lecture to Massachusetts College of Art (Feb. 1, 1984), 1984
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Introductory Comments for "The Agnew Clinic: Medicine, Art, Literature in Late XIX Century Philadelphia." Berkshire Conference (Jun. 1984), 1983-1985
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"Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Painting of the 1930s" Norton Gallery and School of Art (July 6, 1984), circa 1984
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1985 Talks, circa 1985
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John Singer Sargent Talks (1985, 1986), circa 1985-1986
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"The Political Confrontation of the Arts on the Eve of the Second World War" Northwester University Symposium (May 3, 1985), circa 1985
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"Stuart Davis and the American Scene" Symposium, Norton Gallery and School of the Arts (Nov. 16, 1985), circa 1984-1987
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1986 Talks, circa 1986
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"Art, Ideology and the Media: A Panel Discussion" Comments, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Jan. 15, 1986), circa 1985-1986
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Commentary on Papers Delivered at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Luce Foundation Symposium (Apr. 4, 1986), 1986
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"Interpreting High Culture as History" Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting (Apr. 12, 1986), circa 1985-1986
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"Modes of Portraiture" Rhodes College, Moss Endowment Lecture May 1, 1986), circa 1985-1986
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"Jacob Lawrence in Historical Context" Seattle Art Museum (July 10, 1986), circa 1986
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"Black Emancipation: Images, Promises and Realities in American Genre Painting 1865-1870" CAA, Cornell University, Other Venues, circa 1985-1987
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"John Singer Sargent: Master of Paint, Tone, and Design" Art Institute of Chicago (Feb. 15, 1987), 1987
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"The Art that is Life: Lecture to Boston University Alumni, Reunion Weekend (May 15, 1987), 1987
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"Art and Politics in the 1930s: Problems with a Retrospective View" Archives of American Art (May 29, 1987), 1987
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"Jacob Lawrence: American Painter" Exhibition Symposium, Brooklyn Museum (Nov. 14, 1987), circa 1987
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"City Life: New York in the 1930s" Exhibition Reception Talk, Danforth Museum of Art (Dec. 11, 1987), 1987
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Tribute Speech for Agnes Mongan, Women's Caucus for Art (1987), circa 1986-1987
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"Images of Rural America in the Work of Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, and their Contemporaries" (1987) Middlebury College, 1987
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American Art Forum in Chicago with Richard Love (1987) Television Appearance, circa 1987
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CAA Panel "New Approaches to the Study of Patronage in American Art" (Feb. 1988), circa 1986-1988
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CAA Panel "Assessing the Marxist Tradition in U.S. Art History" (Feb. 1988), circa 1988
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"Art and Politics in the 1930s" May Stevens Opening and Symposium. Kenyon College (Feb. 25, 1988), 1988
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"Mary Cassatt's Five O'Clock Tea U. Penn. (Mar. 3, 1988), 1988
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"Coming of Age in America: 20th Century American Art" Symposium, Fleming Museum (Mar. 1988), circa 1988
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"Women Changing Art" University of Hartford Panel (Apr. 11, 1988), circa 1988
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"Making History at the Brooklyn Museum: John I. H. Baur" Symposium (Apr. 16, 1988), circa 1987-1988
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"Picturing the Faces and Land of America" Lecture, Currier Gallery of Art (Jan. 22, 1989), circa 1988-1989
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"The Art World in New York, 1900-1919" Boston University Humanities (Apr. 3, 1989), circa 1988-1989
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"Art and Politics, the 1930s and Today" Rhode Island College (Apr. 19, 1989), 1989
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"Over Here: Modernism, The First Exile, 1914-1919, Bell Gallery Symposium, Brown University (Apr. 22, 1989), circa 1988-1989
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"Modernism in America, 1913-1936: Advocates, Adversaries, and Agendas" CAA Session (Feb. 15, 1990), circa 1989-1990
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"Reinventing the American Scene" Newark Museum Symposium (Mar. 16, 1990), circa 1990
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"Art and Politics in the 1930s" Labor Archives and Research Center" San Francisco State U. (Apr. 19, 1990), circa 1990-1991
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"Maurice Pendergast in Context" Whitney Museum of American Art Panel (June 4, 1990), circa 1990
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"Deconstruction: Its Uses and Abuses for American Art History" CAA Session, Assoc. of Historians of American Art (Feb. 22, 1991), circa 1991
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"Art Criticism from 1890 to the Present Day: Authors, Texts, Contexts" Assoc. of Art Historians (Apr. 11, 1991), circa 1990-1991
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"The American Scene: The Arts and Politics" Symposium, Montclair Art Museum (Apr. 24, 1991), circa 1990-1991
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10th Annual Creativity Awards Speach, Salem State College (Apr. 29, 1991), circa 1991
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"Media-Jumping: African-American Artists in the Interdisciplinary Mode" CAA Session (Feb. 14, 1992), circa 1991-1992
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"Painters of a New Century: The Eight and American Art" Exhibition Symposium (Sep. 19,1992), circa 1992
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"Mary Cassatt's Women" National Gallery of Art Lecture (Oct. 4, 1992), circa 1982-1992
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"William Sidney Mount's Historical Context" Reynolda House Museum (Nov. 20, 1992), circa 1992
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Honoring Jacob Lawrence, The National Arts Club (Jan. 13, 1993), circa 1992-1993
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"The American Art Union as Patron for Expansionist Ideology in the 1840s" A.A.H. Meeting (Apr. 3, 1993), circa 1993
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"Is it Art? Does it Matter?" Boston University Recruitment Panel (Oct. 17, 1994), 1994
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"Modernism and the Art of Jacob Lawrence" MoMA (May 11, 1995), circa 1994-1995
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Surplus Value Lecture, circa 1995-1999
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Comments for Panel at "Histories of Science, Histories of Art" Boston University, Harvard University (Nov. 4, 1995), 1995
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Women's Caucus for Art Award, Introduction of Marianna Pineda (Feb.21, 1996), circa 1995-1996
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Marianna Pineda at Peabody Museum (May 2, 1996), circa 1995-1996
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Graduation Address 1996, Boston University (May 19, 1996), 1996
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"The Social Contruction of Visual Culture: Genius, Imperialism, and Commodification" ASA Session Commentary (Nov.2, 1996), 1996
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Search for the Queen Film Screen, Introduction for Marianna Pineda at Boston Public Library (Nov. 17, 1996), circa 1996
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"Journey to the Promised Land: Images of Hope and Struggle in the Art of Jacob Lawrence" Symposium, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Dec. 7, 1996), circa 1996
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"Jacob Lawrence: African American Culture and the Cold War" Boston University (Jan. 21, 1997), circa 1986-1997
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"Social Realism in American Painting" Maren Stange's Class at Amerika Institut, Munich (June 3, 1997), 1997
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Eastman Johnson Lecture, High Museum of Art (Feb. 1, 1998), circa 1997-1998
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Jacon Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Symposium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Mar. 15, 1998), circa 1998
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"From Art History to Visual Culture" Keynote Lecture, Boston University Symposium (Mar. 20, 1998), circa 1998
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Rudolf Baranik Memorial, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe (Apr. 4, 1998), circa 1998
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"Reflecting on 19th Century Art: A Symposium" C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center (May 22, 1998), circa 1998
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Eastman Johnson Lecture for Trustees Meeting, Nantucket Historical Association (July 10, 1998), circa 1998
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"American Re-Visions: Evaluating Robert Hughes' Media Blitz" CAA Session (Feb. 12, 1999), circa 1998-1999
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"Cultural Racism: Resistance and Accommodation in the Work of Eastman Johnson and Thomas Nast" C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center (Feb. 25, 1999), 1999
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"Sargent Saturday" Talk Boston University Core Curriculum (Sep. 18, 1999), circa 1999
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Comments Regarding Visual Culture Session at American Studies Association Conference (2001), 2001
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"In the Heart of the Black Belt: Jacon Lawrence's Commission from Fortune to Paint the South" CAA Panel (Mar. 12, 2001), circa 2000-2001
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"Jacob Lawrence as Pictorial Griot for Harlem" S.U.N.Y. New Paltz (May 3, 2001), 2001
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Remarks for Jacob Lawrence Symposium, George Washington University with Phillips Collection (June 26, 2001), 2001
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"Memory, Traces, and the Art of Whitfield Lovell" Boston University Art Gallery (Oct. 3, 2001), 2001
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Commentary for "African American Art and Experience in the Interwar Decades" Session" Colgate University (Oct. 27, 2001), 2001
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"The Modern Corporate State, the Rhetoric of Freedom, and the Emergence of Modernism in the Unites States" U.C. Davis (2002), circa 2002
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Art History Graduate Students Talk at Boston University (Feb. 6, 2002), 2002
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Comments on Student Paper by Rebecca McIntyre BU-SPNEA Conference (Feb. 7, 2002), 2002
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"Images of Africans in the Civil War and Reconstruction" Salem State College Lecture (Mar. 25, 2002), 2002
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"Art, Politics, and Protest in the 70s" Panel with May Stevens, New Mexico State University (Apr. 10, 2002), circa 2002
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"Jacob Lawrence as Pictorial Griot for Harlem" Detroit Institute of Arts Talk (Apr. 28, 2002), circa 2001-2002
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Current Events and the Visual Arts Panel, ICA Boston (Sep. 12, 2002), circa 2002
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"Images of Africans in the Civil War and Reconstruction, with a Focus om Eastman Johnson and Thomas Nast" Lecture at University of Nebraska (Sep. 24, 2002), 2002
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"Memory as Inspiration and Theme in Contemporary Art" Queens Museum of Art (Oct. 27, 2002), 2002
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"The Persistence of Painting in Boston" Symposium at DeCordova Museum (Nov. 2, 2002), 2002
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"Painted Ladies: Representations of Women by the Ashcan School" University of Connecticut (Nov. 6, 2002), 2002
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"The Critical View in American Art, 1800-1945" CAA Session (Feb. 2003), circa 2002-2003
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"African American Artists and the Cubist Collage Aesthetic" Panel, World Congress of IASA, Leiden (May 22, 2003), circa 2002-2003
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"John Singer Sargent and Maurice Brazil Prendergast: Painters of Modern Life on Different Paths" New York University (May 29, 2003), circa 2003
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Panel Discussion on Women's Caucus for Art, Tufts University (Sep. 22, 2003), circa 2003
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Island Economy, Architecture, and Decorative Arts Symposium, Decorative Arts Trust (Oct. 4, 2003), circa 2003
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"Romare Bearden: American Modernist" Symposium, National Gallery of Art (Oct. 25, 2003), 2003
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"Racializing American Art History: Trends in Exhibition and Scholarship from the 1970s to Today" Harvard University (Oct. 23, 2003), circa 2003
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"Memory, Traces, and the Art of Whitfield Lovell" Kenyon College (Jan. 29, 2004), circa 2003-2004
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Commentary on American Modernism Panel, CAA (Feb. 19, 2004), circa 2003-2004
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Remarks for Panel on the Catalogue Raisonne, New York University (Apr. 17, 2004), circa 2003-2004
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"The Canon? Celebrating American Art" Conference at New York University (May 15, 2004), circa 2003-2004
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"Writing Them In, Writing Them Out" Comments for Panel at American Studies Association Conference (Nov. 11-14, 2004), 2004
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"Jacob Lawrence as Pictorial Griot for Harlem" Appleton Museum Lecture (Feb. 20, 2005), 2005
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16th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African Art, Howard University (Apr. 15, 2005), circa 2004-2005
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"Encounters with the Land: American Depictions from the 17th Century to the Present" New York University Conference (May 15, 2005), circa 2005
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Keynote Address, Vanguard Collecting Symposium, Reynolda House (June 17, 2005), circa 2005
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Preview of Jacob Lawrence Book, Howard University Lecture (Mar. 2, 2006), 2006
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"Talking Walls: The Historic Murals of Gloucester City Hall" (Oct. 28, 2006), 2006
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"The Northern Civil War Home Front" Conference, Vermont Humanities Council (Nov. 10, 2007), circa 2010
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"On the Limits and Possibilities of Politics in the Art Panel Moderation (Nov. 1, 2008), circa 2008
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Jacob Lawrence Talks at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Roxbury Community College (Nov. 2008), 2008
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"Jacob Lawrence: Painting and the African American Experience" Danforth Museum (Dec. 14, 2008), 2008
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Boston University Commencement Speeches (2009, 2012), circa 2009, 2012
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Comments on Papers for "Greenberg at 100" Conference, Harvard University (Apr. 4, 2009), circa 2009
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Reading of Margaret Randall for the Boston University, ACLU Forum (Apr. 29, 2009), 2009
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"Resistance and Revolution: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Prints of Jacob Lawrence" Harvard University (Oct. 29, 2009), 2009
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"Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence" Book Launch Talks (2010), circa 2010
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Commentary on Civil War Talks at Boston University Graduate Conference in American Political History (Apr. 17, 2010), circa 2010
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"Sargent's Men" Fenimore Art Museum (June 19, 2010), circa 2010
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"Resistance and Accommodation to the Cultural Racism in the Visual Culture of the Civil War: BU-BPS Project (Aug. 31, 2010), circa 2010
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Comments for Visual Culture Panel at the Assoc, of Historians of American Art Symposium (Oct. 8, 2010), circa 2010
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"The African American Experience, 1940s-1960s in the Art of Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden" Peabody Institute Library (Oct. 20, 2010), circa 2010
Includes born-digital material, see ER05
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"The African-American Experience, 1940s-1960s, in the Art of Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden", Digital Presentation, 2010
0.065 Gigabytes
One computer file
ER05
"Abstract and Representational: Expressionism in New York after World War II" Museum of the City of New York Symposium (Feb. 16, 2011), circa 2010-2011
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"The Moral Compass of Jacob Lawrence: African American Painter" Meadows Museum of Art (Apr. 3, 2011), circa 2010-2011
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"New Women: The Art and Politics of Anita Wilcox Parkhurst (1892-1984)" Panel Boston University Women's Resource Center (Apr. 21, 2011), 2011
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"The Idiocy of Ideocracy" Art Chicago Next Panel (Apr. 30, 2011), circa 2011
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Art of the Americas Wing Tour at Museum of Fine Arts Boston (May 13, 2011), 2011
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Tribute to Mamie Elizabeth Hyatt, Jesus Is the Answer Baptist Church (May 14, 2011), 2011
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"Black Artists in Boston" NEH Workshop at Boston University (June 24, 2011), 2011
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"Challenging 1945: Exploring Continuities in American Art 1890s to Present" Symposium, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (July 15, 2011), circa 2010-2011
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"The American Art Union: Painting, Patrons, and Politics in the 1840s" Gilcrease Art Museum (July 23, 2011), circa 2011
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"Color and Construction: The Ultimate Vision of Romare Bearden" Panel Comments, Harvard University, circa 2011-2012
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"Cultural Mobility and Transcultural Confrontations: Winold Reis sas a Paradigm of Transnational Studies" Symposium (Dec. 2, 2011), circa 2011
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Meyer Schapiro Talk at Boston University Humanities (2012), circa 2012
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"Themes of Experience and Heritage in 1930s Art" Christies (Feb. 26, 2012), circa 2012
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"Painting the Civil War" American Antiquarian Society, Summer Seminar (2012), circa 2012
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"How African American Artists 'Teach' Black History" JFK Presidential Library and Museum (July, 17, 2012), circa 2012
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Comments for "Ubiquity of Empire" Panel at American Studies Association (Nov. 18, 2012), 2012
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"Jacob Lawrence's Great Migration Series, 1940-1941, Commonwealth School (Sep. 13, 2012), 2012
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"American Art: The Academy Museum and the Market" Association of Historians of American Art Symposium (Oct. 2012), circa 2011-2012
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Lectures (Nov. 2012), circa 2012
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Lecture to Will Moore's Class, University of Connecticut (Feb. 6, 2013), circa 2013
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Cleveland Labor Fest and Forum, Cleveland Public Library (Feb. 23, 2013), circa 2012-2013
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"Gwendolyn Bennett, the Harlem Community Art Center, and Cultural Democracy Confronting Government Sponsored Anti-Communism" Harvard University (Mar. 6, 2013), circa 2013
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"What Ever Happened to the New Art History?: Reflections in the Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Since 1970s" Terra Foundation at Giverny (July 11, 2013), 2012-2013
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"Emancipated Slaves in 19th Century American Visual Culture" Roger Williams University (Oct. 30, 2013), circa 2013
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"John Singer Sargent: Cosmopolitan Painter" Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Nov. 5, 7, 2013), circa 2013
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"Emancipated Slaves in 1860s Visual Culture" National Academy Museum (Nov. 20, 2013), circa 2012-2013
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"Cultural Legacies: From Jacob Lawrence to Winfred Rembert" Danforth Art Museum (Feb. 9, 2014), 2014
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Comments for College Art Association Meeting (Feb. 12, 2014), 2014
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Women's Liberation Panel, Boston University (Mar. 2014), 2014
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Touissant L'Ouverture, Boston Public Library Panel (June 17, 2014), circa 2014
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Lecture on John Singer Sargent's "Gassed" Boston University (Nov. 2014), circa 2014
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American Studies Association Session in Honor of Patricia Hills (Nov. 4, 2014), circa 2014
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"Geography, Democracy, Modernity: Stuart Davis at Mid-Career" Detroit Institute of Arts (Dec. 3, 2014), 2014
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"Remembering the Great War (1914-1918): A Centenary" Symposium and Concert, Boston University (Dec. 11, 2014), 2014
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"Resistance and Revolution: The Touissant L'Ouverture Series of Jacon Lawrence at Cleveland Museum of Art (Dec. 12, 2014), circa 2014
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"Jacob Lawrence: Images of Labor and the Civil Rights Movement" Cleveland Public Library (Dec. 13, 2014), 2014
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"Cultural Legacies: From Jacob Lawrence to Winfred Rembert" Tufts University (Oct. 29, 2015), 2015
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"History as Symbols of Struggle" Jacob Lawrence Symposium at University of Virginia, Charlottesville (Apr. 15, 2016), 2015-2016
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Remarks Regarding Mat Stevens for the Ryan/Lee Gallery for Alice in the Garden Installation Reception (Feb. 25, 2017), 2017
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Keynote Lecture, Lines of Influence Symposium (Oct. 19, 2017), circa 2017
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Questions for Panel Discussion at Ryan/Lee Gallery on Rudolf Baranik (May 9, 2019), circa 1998-2019
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"Artists and Designers: Realities and Imaginations in Labor and Business" Conference, F.I.T. (Apr.12, 2019), 2019
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Speaker Introductions, 1980-2007
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Talks Not Given, 1990, 2013
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