Last spring, Kishwar Rizvi, professor of the history of art, led a group of eight graduate students to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of her seminar “Museum and Nation.” Rizvi’s students conducted fieldwork there and later hosted a symposium on...
In her hometown of Kampala, Uganda, Doreen Adengo ’05 M. Arch. co-curated a chapter of “African Modernism: Architecture of Independence,” an exhibition that documents how African nations celebrated their postcolonial identities through architecture.
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In “Cairo the Incandescent,” Karen Polinger Foster, former lecturer in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, “explores manifestations of light throughout the city, from dawn to dusk, from the broad sweep of its radiant river to the lucent details of...