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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nTuesday, January 14, 2025 5:00 pm to 6:30
  pm \n Paul Cadario Conference Centre \n University College - Croft Chapte
 r House \n 15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON \n\nSpeakers \nA\ne Laf
 ont (Professor, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), 
 Paris \n\nDescription: \nThe Department of Art History is pleased to prese
 nt the next installment of our French Visiting Lecture Series, featuring 
 Prof. A\ne Lafont (EHESS, Paris).PLEASE NOTE: Registration RequiredFetish
 : An Object or a Category for the Enlightenment? When: Tuesday, January 1
 4, 2025 - 5:00pm Where: Paul Cadario Conference Centre, UCSince the avan
 t-garde, fetishes have been roughly identified with African art objects,
  and even more so with African sculpture. But this has not always been the
  case. The fetish has a long history, originating in the transcultural sp
 ace of the West African coast in the 15th century, when the Portuguese, 
 in their Atlantic navigation, found a word (fetissos) to describe things\
 , natural or artificial, invested with supernatural power by local religi
 ous thought. The semantic fluidity of this noun led it to cover a wide ran
 ge of elements and phenomena, from trees to amulets, from the material e
 lements of worship to the tools of the human and social sciences.This talk
  will focus on a specific moment in this history, in the 18th century, w
 hen African objects were integrated into the classification project carrie
 d out by Natural History, and the first public museums were set up. The a
 im is to follow these African objects in collections, in art and in the e
 ngravings used to illustrate travel literature, while linking their paths
  to the fortunes of fetishes and fetishism within the intellectual product
 ion of the Enlightenment. For the fetish is a concept that has never lost 
 its dual nature, both material and ideal.   \n\nSponsors \nDepartment of 
 Art History \n15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON \n\nCategories \n Le
 cturesSpecial Event \n\nAudiences \n Art History CommunityCurrent Graduate
  StudentsCurrent Undergraduate StudentsFacultyGeneral Public
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250114T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T165138Z
LOCATION:15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON
SUMMARY:French Visiting Scholar Lecture Series: Anne Lafont (Professor, EH
 ESS, Paris)
URL;TYPE=URI:https://arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/french-visiting-scholar-
 lecture-series-anne-lafont-professor-ehess-paris
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