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Kahn Chronicle: Fall 2015, Smith College, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute

Kahn Chronicle

Table of Contents:

Kahn 2015-16 Short-term Projects Look to the Future
Faculty Invited to Apply for Two New Kahn Fellowships
Kahn Long-term Projects 2016-17
Kahn Short-Term Projects 2015-16
2015-16 Long-Term Projects
Visiting Lecturers Hosted by the Kahn this Fall
A Note from the Director:
Some Bad News and Some Good
Smith Alumna, Founder of The Look for the Good Project to Show Works at Kahn Gallery

Meridians 13:1, Paula J. Giddings

Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism

Carole Boyce Davies, the eminent scholar of Caribbean and African studies, opens the issue with an analysis regarding a "shift" in African feminist discourse in her essay, "Gender/Class Intersections and African Women's Rights." Like its African American second-wave counterpart, the discourse challenged "all forms of economic and social oppression" but now emphasizes women's cultural politics over political systems. Davies explores what she calls the critical variable of class evasion....

Kahn Chronicle: Winter 2015, Smith College, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute

Kahn Chronicle

Table of Contents:

Celebrating the Kahn Student Experience: Oscar-winning Filmmaker to Join Student Fete
Sophs, Juniors Invited to Kahn Info Sessions
Upcoming Kahn Lectures
Gender, Justice and the Arab World: A Q&A with 2015 Neilson Professor Sahar Amer
Galileo, Shakespeare and Their Contemporaries Visit the Kahn
At the Kahn Institute, 2014-15, Mid-Year Report: The Power of Disappearance
Q&A with Photographer Carmen Pullella ‘16
A Note from the Founding Director: Channeling Louise: A Reflection by Marjorie Senechal

Precious Stones, Mineral Beings, Performative Materiality In Fifteenth-Century Northern Art, Brigitte Buettner

Art: Faculty Books

Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of both the inherent qualities of materials and the forces of culture that used, refined and produced them. The study of materials offers a new approach to this important period in the history of art, science and culture, linking the close study of painting, sculpture and architecture to much wider categories of the everyday and the exotic.

Drawing on new research and models from anthropology, material culture and the history of art, scholars in The Matter of Art …