Muhammad the Lawgiver Before and After Machiavelli

Zimmerli Art Museum 71 Hamilton St, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

Join us for a talk at the Zimmerli Art Museum, which focuses on the evolution of the image of the prophet Muhammad between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Particularly, it focuses on books of universal history, chronicles and humanistic orations. Columbia University assistant professor Pier Mattia Tommasino argues how the image of the prophet Muhammad […]

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Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in the Italian Cinema

Zimmerli Art Museum 71 Hamilton St, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

Join us for a viewing of a diasporic, hybrid, critical, and cosmopolitan dimension documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers seldom heard from before: Black actors in Italian cinema. Documentary followed by questions and answers. Sponsored by the Rutgers University Department of Italian. Fred "Kudjo", an activist-producer-writer-director, was born and raised in […]

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