Co-Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Medieval Studies Program, the Department of Art History, and the Anonymous Fund.
Join us for this thought-provoking lecture on how images produced in late medieval Italy shaped ideas of human difference by depicting Muslims and Black Africans, within biblical scenes and visual
markers that contributed to the racialization of these groups.
Denva Gallant, Assistant Professor of Art History at Rice University, is an internationally recognized scholar of medieval and early Renaissance art whose work explores how images shape cultural imagination, devotional practice, and the visual construction of race.
