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Lecture: Come to Your Senses! — Sensiotics and Understandings of Arts and Culture in Africa and Beyond

Lecture by Henry J. Drewal

Event Details

Date
Friday, September 26, 2025
Time
4:30-6 p.m.
Description
This presentation by Henry J. Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Emeritus Professor in African Art, will be a multimedia and multisensorial performance in the African and African Diaspora tradition of “Call and Response.” With images, sounds, film, and movement, we will consider Sensiotics, an approach that centers the crucial importance of the senses, our body-minds, and sense-abilities in understandings of the arts, cultures, and histories. The talk has global implications.
Cost
Free
Accessibility

We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-263-2340 or email jcmccarthy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.

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