2019 Past Events: Block Museum - Northwestern University
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2019 Past Events

Bright Night for the Arts 2019

December 5

The Poetry of Pop América

December 4

The Politics of Taste: Ana María Reyes onBeatriz González

November 20

Tales of Art at The Block - November

November 9

Warnock Lecture Series: Dell Upton (UCLA)

November 6

América Now: Chicago Artists in Dialogue

October 30

Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos and Alejandra Uslenghi: The Politics of Soups and Sodas

October 23

Tales of Art at The Block - October

October 19

Cesáreo Moreno: Mi Casa es Su Casa

October 16

Contesting Freedom: "Pop América, 1965–1975” Curator Conversation with Esther Gabara

October 2

Opening Celebration: Pop América Pop In

September 28

Spring Poetry Workshop: Migration, Fragmentation, and Translation

May 29

Lesley Nneka Arimah

May 15

Driving Desires: How Gold Shaped the World

May 9

Exploring Ethics: Across Art, Humanities, and Science

May 8

Opening: colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

May 2

Warnock Lecture: Kishwar Rizvi (Yale University)

May 1

Trans-Saharan Connections and the Global Turn in Africa: A History in Fragments

April 26

Trans-Saharan Exchange and the Global Medieval

April 26

From the Field: International Archaeologists in Conversation

April 24

Fred Wilson: Afro Kismet

April 16

Family Storytelling: Tales of Art at the Block

April 13

Saharan Futures

April 11

You Can’t Decolonise African Studies without Decolonising Africa

April 5

Movements: A Response to The Leopard

April 4

Poetry Workshop: Migration, Fragmentation, and Translation

March 20

Family Storytelling: Tales of Art at the Block

March 9

Research at the Crossroads: Inside the Exhibition Caravans of Gold

March 6

Nations of Migrants: Panel and Conversation

February 28

Warnock Lecture: Joanne Pillsbury (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

February 20

Family Storytelling: Tales of Art at the Block

February 16

Counter-Histories with Michael Rakowitz

February 13

Litowitz Reading: Tyehimba Jess

January 31

Opening Celebration: Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time

January 26