CMES Colloquium: Margins of Freedom: Censorship, Critique, and Contemporary Art in the UAE

Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 12:00pm
Speaker/Performer: 
Beth Derderian, The College of Wooster
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Admission: 
Free but register in advance

Hosted by Vish Sakthivel
Beth Derderian is an assistant professor of anthropology and museum studies at the College of Wooster. Her work focuses on politics of representation in art worlds. Her first project focused on changes in aesthetic, linguistic and social hierarchies in the Emirati art community after the announcement of plans for the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Her current work examines on traveling exhibitions of Arab and Muslim artists to the US as modes of cultural diplomacy, in particular focusing on discourses that equate the presence of art with proof of civilization and absence of terrorism. She holds a PhD in anthropology from Northwestern University, and a master’s degree in Near Eastern Studies and Museum Studies from New York University.

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