History of Arts and Architecture

Between 1979 and 1990, East German teachers, engineers, and doctors moved to Mozambique as part of the Friendship Treaty with the German Democratic Republic. German scholar Katrin Bahr of UMass Amherst discusses how they brought not only their expertise but also their cameras, providing a fascinating glimpse into life in postindependence Mozambique. An exhibition on the same topic is on view in the adjacent Mahaney Gallery. Free

Examining a variety of case studies across several decades, Dr. Pamela Karimi (Associate Professor of Art History at UMass Dartmouth) illuminates the economic, social, intellectual, and visceral forces that have derived Iran’s creative agents toward increasingly original forms of artmaking that are played out in pop-up venues, covert homes, temporary counter-institutions, escapist sites, underground scenes, and other defiant spaces. Free