The Centre for African Art and Archaeology (CFAAA) is pleased to present two seminars for the 2013 semester from Professor John Mack (SIFA) on 5 February 2013 in the SRU seminar room and Dr. Susan Gagliardi on 26 February 2013 (CUNY, City University of New York, Sainsbury Research Unit Postgraduate Fellow, 2013) in the SCVA Education room.

Professor John Mack, FBA was formerly Keeper of the Ethnography Department of the British Museum and Director of the Museum of Mankind. His research has focused on Congo, southern Sudan, Kenya, Madagascar and Zanzibar, taking a broadly anthropological approach to art, material culture and archaeology.
Professor John Mack will present a talk titled:

Sprits without passports: possession and modernity in eastern Africa
SRU Seminar room, University of East Anglia
5 February 2013
17:00pm – 18:30pm

Dr. Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, is a specialist in West African art history. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California at Los Angeles after conducting extensive fieldwork in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Her most recent research focuses on power associations, the great patrons for the arts in Senufo- and Mande-speaking towns across western Burkina Faso and southern Mali. Gagliardi examines the arts, knowledge, and interpersonal networks that power associations promote. She considers how power association leaders, artists, patrons, and audiences shape and respond to dynamic arts and performances. She also investigates diverse strategies for assemblage and tensions between the seen and unseen dimensions of the visual arts. Dr. Susan Gagliardi will present a talk titled:

Masquerading for the Public: Contemporary Arts of Hunters’ Associations in Western Burkina Faso

SCVA, Education Room, University of East Anglia
26 February 2013
17:00pm – 18:30pm


These talks will be followed by drinks and dinner.
Please email M.Mathurin@uea.ac.uk  if you’d like to attend the dinner (on a pay your own way basis).

The Centre for African Art and Archaeology (CFAAA), part of the Sainsbury Institute for Art, fosters research and teaching relating to the arts, archaeology and cultural heritage of Africa.    http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/centre-african-art