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Louis Rose

Date
April 19, 2017
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Louis Rose, Executive Director of the Sigmund Freud Archive at the Library of Congress and Professor of History in the Departments of History and Political Science at Otterbein University talks about his new book, Psychology, Art, and Antifascism: Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich,, and the Politics of

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Lydia Murdoch

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October 8, 2014
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Lydia Murdoch (VC'92), Associate Professor of History at Vassar College, talks about her book Daily Life of Victorian Women (Greenwood, 2014). "Contrary to popular misconception, many Victorian women performed manual labor for wages directly alongside men, had political voice before women's suffrage

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Marc Michael Epstein

Date
September 16, 2015
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Mark Michael Epstein, Professor of Religion on the Mackie Paschall Davis & Norman H. Davis Chair at Vassar College, discusses his new book, co-edited with Eva Frojmovic: Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts (Princeton University Press, 2015). "The gorgeously illustrated

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Marc Michael Epstein

Date
October 10, 2012
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Marc Michael Epstein, Professor of Religion at Vassar College, talks about his book: The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination, published by Yale University Press and listed by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the best books of 2011. "A dazzling analysis. . . . The

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Mardges Bacon

Date
November 21, 2018
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Mardges Bacon, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Art and Architecture Emerita, Northeastern University, discusses her book John McAndrew's Modernist Vision: From the Vassar College Art Library to the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018). "With the

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Maria Höhn

Date
April 2, 2014
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Maria Höhn, Professor of History and International Studies on the Marion Musser Lloyd Chair at Vassar College, talks about her most recent book, co-authored with Martin Klimke, entitled: A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany, published by Palgrave in 2010

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Mark C. Amodio

Date
December 11, 2007
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Mark Amodio, Professor of English at Vassar College, talks about his book: Writing the Oral Tradition: Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England, published by the University of Notre Dame Press. Hailed as "a major revision of oral theory" and "destined to reshape critical thinking about

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Martha C. Nussbaum

Date
September 28, 2016
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Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, discusses her book Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice, just published by Oxford University Press. "Written with her usual mix of grace, precision, passion, and

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Mary Anna Barbey

Date
September 14, 2022
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Mary Anna Barbey (VC 58, 73) discusses her life as a journalist and novelist in Switzerland and her new English translation of her 2004 French novel Prosperity Mill (Independently published 2022). Susannah Marshall was fourteen when the strike broke out at Prosperity Mill. For months

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Mary-Kay Lombino

Date
April 22, 2015
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Mary Kay Lombino, Emily Hargroves Fisher 1957 and Richard B. Fisher Curator of Collections at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, discusses the exhibition on view April 10 - June 14, 2015 entitled Through the Looking Glass: Daguerreotype Masterworks from the Dawn of Photography.

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Mary-Kay Lombino

Date
February 17, 2018
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Mary-Kay Lombino, Emily Hargroves Fisher 1957 and Richard B. Fisher Curator of Collections at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, discusses the exhibition on view January 29 - April 15, 2018: "People Are Beautiful, Photographs, Prints, and Films by Andy Warhol." People are Beautiful explores

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Mary-Kay Lombino

Date
May 4, 2016
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Mary-Kay Lombino, Emily Hargroves Fisher 1957 and Richard B. Fisher Curator of Collections at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, discusses the exhibition on view April 29 - August 21, 2016: "Touch the Sky: Art and Astronomy." Astronomy can be traced back to antiquity with its origins in religious

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Mary-Kay Lombino

Date
February 25, 2015
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Mary Kay Lombino, Emily Hargroves Fisher 1957 and Richard B. Fisher Curator of Collections at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, discusses the exhibition on view January 30 - March 29, 2015 entitled: XL: Large-Scale Works from the Permanent Collection.

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Mary-Kay Lombino

Date
October 21, 2015
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Mary Kay Lombino, Emily Hargroves Fisher 1957 and Richard B. Fisher Curator of Collections at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, discusses the exhibition on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center September 25 - December 13, 2015 entitled "Gordon Parks: The Making of an

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Mary-Kay Lombino

Date
March 6, 2019
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Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator of Collections at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, talks about her exhibition Freehand: Drawings by Inez Nathaniel-Walker, on view February 1 - April 14 at the Center. Inez Nathaniel-Walker (1907–1990) made her first works of art while she was serving a

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Mary-Kay Lombino

Date
October 23, 2019
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Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator of Collections at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar, discusses her exhibition Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, on view through December 15, 2019. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art

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Mary-Kay Lombino

Date
April 17, 2013
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Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator of Collections at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, talks about the exhibition: "The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation," on view in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center April 12 through June 30, 2013. "Filled with images from a trove

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Mary-Kay Lombino

Date
November 7, 2006
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Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator of Collections at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, talks about the exhibition: Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists' Books (October 6-December 17, 2006)

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Matthew Israel

Date
May 21, 2014
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Matthew Israel (VC'00), Director of the Art Genome Project, talks about the Project, Artsy, and taxonomies of the history of art. "The Art Genome Project's search technology is the product of an ongoing art-historical study—undertaken by a team of contributors with art-historical backgrounds—seeking

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Maureen Millea Smith

Date
February 1, 2017
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Minnesota writer and librarian Maureen Millea Smith, talks about her book of short stories, The Enigma of Iris Murphy (Livingson, 2016). "Astonishing and original, these stories draw us into the singular world of Omaha public defender Iris Murphy and the interconnected relationships she shares with

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