Wednesday, April 2
Glaire D. Anderson, “Roman Landscape, Abbasid
Manners: Negotiating Suburban Villa Culture in Tenth Century
Spain”
LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center, 6
p.m.
Anderson, an assistant professor of
art history at UNC Chapel Hill, will focus on medieval
Islamic villa cultures of Spain as part of a broader history
of the villa in the Mediterranean. Anderson is currently at
work on a book about villas and court culture in Umayyad
Cordoba. She is the editor of Revisiting al Andalus:
Perspectives on the Art & Material Culture of Islamic
Iberia & Beyond.
Art History Lecture
Series