Vicaritas: Bruegel’s Disorder With Jennifer Nelson, Ph.D.

When

April 4, 6 p.m.

Where

Whitaker Campus Center, Commons

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Have you ever wondered how the vicarious pleasure of viewing the suffering of Others while participating in rhetorics of charity intersects with participation in a hierarchical world order during an imperialist occupation? Or would you just like to watch a mountain of people push through one another for free wine? Join us for a thought-provoking discussion that combines art history, politics and philosophy, as the poet and scholar Jennifer Nelson dissects Bruegel’s painting “The Wine of St. Martin’s Day.”

Jennifer Nelson, Ph.D., is an associate professor of early modern art at the University of Delaware and a Hilles Bush Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. They are the author of two art history books, “Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors” and “Lucas Cranach: From German Myth to Reformation.” They are also the author of four books of poetry, including the forthcoming “On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies,” winner of the Ottoline Prize from Fence.

This event is free and open to the public.

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