Event time:
Friday, November 16, 2018 - 12:00pm
Location:
WLH 211
Event description:
Democracy in America: The History of our Time and Place
Monthly Graduate Workshops
Timothy Barringer, History of Art.
Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art. He specializes in the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century art of Britain and the British Empire, nineteenth-century American and German art and museum studies.
This series of noontime workshops gives students a chance to hear faculty members from across the disciplines present their own analysis of the state of democracy in contemporary America, and reflect upon how their particular disciplinary methods and outlooks have outfitted them to approach the current national and world situation. Discussion will also address the pedagogical challenges and responsibilities in the classroom at times of political stress or crisis. Presentation and open discussion; lunch will be served.
For more information visit Democracy In America.
Generously funded by a 320 York Humanities Grant, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office, Yale University.
Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art. He specializes in the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century art of Britain and the British Empire, nineteenth-century American and German art and museum studies.