The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program presents
Devotional Art, Popular Culture, and Church State Relations in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Mexico
A lecture by Prof. Kinga Novak, University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in Mexican religious and visual cultures from the colonial period to the present, with a focus on the nineteenth century. Her current research project is provisionally entitled Of Gratitude and Sorrow: A Visual History of Everyday Mexican Spirituality, 1700 2013, and explores religious, cultural, political, and technological changes in Mexico through the lens of devotional art, tracing ordinary Mexicans' relationships with the church and the state during a period of institutional attempts at modernizing Mexico.
Date: Wednesday, December 3rd Time: 2:55 4 20p.m. Room: Roosevelt 108 Prof. Kinga Novak will also present her work, more informally, that same day at 9:35 11:00 in New Academic Building 302. Both sessions are open to all on campus.