Principia College Presents Two Visiting Scholars
ELSAH - Principia College welcomes Dr. David Lubin, Professor of Art History at Wake Forest University, as a 2017 Annenberg Scholar. Lubin will present an illustrated talk entitled “A Monument to Racial Equality: Boston’s Shaw Memorial and the Battle over Civil War Memory” on Tuesday, October 24, at 7:30 p.m.
A cultural scholar and art historian, Lubin studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema while also reviewing music for Rolling Stone. He holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. Lubin has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has held research residencies at Harvard, Stanford, and the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. In 2010, he was a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin, and in 2016 he held the Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professorship at Oxford University.
Lubin’s books include Act of Portrayal, Picturing a Nation, Flags and Faces, and Titanic, a cultural analysis of the blockbuster film. His book Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images, which examines the photographic portrayal of Jack and Jackie Kennedy from their public courtship in 1953 to his assassination 10 years later, won the Smithsonian Institution’s Charles Eldredge Prize for “outstanding scholarship in American art.” His latest book, Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. Lubin’s talk is free to the public.
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On Thursday, October 26, at 7:30 p.m., Principia College will present New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi as the Ernie and Lucha Vogel Moral Courage Lecturer. A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Callimachi has been cited by lawmakers across the globe for her coverage of Al-Qaida and ISIS. WIREDmagazine describes her as “arguably the best reporter on the most important beat in the world.”
One of Callimachi’s Pulitzer nominations was for “Al-Qaida’s Papers,” which won the Michael Kelly Award as well as two Overseas Press Club awards. Her series, “Underwriting Jihad,” revealing that the ransoms paid by European governments were a main source of financing for Al-Qaida and ISIS, won the George Polk Award. And in 2016, she was awarded the inaugural “Integrity in Journalism” prize by the International Center for Journalists for her coverage of ISIS’s systematic enslavement of Yazidi women.
Born in communist Romania, Callimachi and her family fled the country when she was five years old. She attended school in Switzerland before immigrating to the U.S. at the age of 10. Callimachi graduated from Dartmouth College and earned her master’s degree in linguistics from Exeter College, Oxford.
The event is open to the public. Tickets may be purchased at the door ($15 for the public.).
