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 Please join us Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 10:00am–12:00pm (CDT) for our Spring Warnock Lecture which will be held virtually via Zoom webinar. Anne Lafont (Professor of Art History and Research Director, École des hautes études en sciences sociales) will be giving a lecture titled “The paper fetish, or art history without objects.” Registration is required. The abstract for the lecture can be found below.

"The lecture will focus on the moment in the long 18th century when knowledge of African religions and material culture was established in Europe and the Americas, based on the transcontinental and triangular trade not only in enslaved people, but also in gold, ivory, fabrics and other commodities. The aim is to understand what the notion of fetish really meant at the time, and what its avatars were, both conceptually and materially."