Robert Farris Thompson Talk on Yoruba Philosophy in Action: Iwa, Itutu, and

• Date
  Fri, Mar 01

  Time
  4:00 PM

  Website
  http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/humanities/foreignlang/

  Address
  North Academic Center
  Simon H. Rifkind Center
  

  Location
  North Academic Center, 6/316

  p: 212.650.6731

  Admission
  Free

• Event Details

  Robert Farris Thompson Talk on Yoruba Philosophy in Action: Iwa, Itutu, and Ashe

  
  Robert Farris Thompson Talk on Yoruba Philosophy in Action: Iwa, Itutu, and Ashe
  
  Friday, March 1, 2013, 4:00 PM
  NAC 6/316
  
  Robert Farris Thompson — Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Professor of African American Studies and Master of Timothy Dwight College — has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1965 where he has taught and written extensively on the visual traditions of West and Central Africa, and on Black Art in the Americas. He has also presided over exhibitions of African art at the National Gallery in Washington, D. C. and lived in the Yoruba region of southwest Nigeria for many years while he conducted his research of Yoruba arts history.
  
  Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Division of Humanities and Arts, with the generous support of the Simon H. Rifkind Center.