Rita Freed, 'Image of Nubia: Defining Nubian Art'

collection of Ancient Nubian sarcophaguses

Date and Time

October 14, 2026
12:00PM - 01:30PM EDT

Location

Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center

104 Mount Auburn Street
Floor 2R
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Rita Freed, Chair Emerita, Department of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Part of Worldwide Week at Harvard

In-person and livestreaming at youtube.com/hutchinscenter

 

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Weekly Colloquium Series

Colloquia are held Wednesdays at Noon, September 16 - November 18 (excluding November 11), in the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center

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