October 26, 2021 / 3:00-5:30 pm / Maxwell Hall (Grand Hall) / Free
Join us for a mini-symposium featuring Dalia Judovitz on “Self-Aware Painting in Georges de La Tour” and Richard Neer on “Visual Acuity and Spiritual Exercise in French Realism, ca. 1620- ca. 1650.”
Dalia Judovitz recently retired as NEH Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University.
Richard Neer is Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema & Media Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago, where he also is Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Sponsors: The Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund and the Gertrude F. Weathers Fund of the Department of French & Italian; the Renaissance Studies Program; the Robert E. and Avis Tarrant Burke Fund, Department of Art History; the French Embassy Center of Excellence at IU; and the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities.