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DESCRIPTION:Henry John Drewal will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on W
 ednesday\, August 23 at 12:15 pm. His\ntalk is entitled “Come to your Sens
 es! Sensiotics and\nUnderstandings of Persons\, Arts\, Cultures\, and Hist
 ories.”In this talk\, Drewal invites you to come to your sense-abilities. 
 The sensing body-mind is the source of cognition\, not the brain/mind (pac
 e Descartes). Drewal will explore this proposition with a theoretical and 
 methodological approach he calls Sensiotics (a critique of and play on tex
 t-centered semiotics). Sensiotics analyzes the role of the senses in the p
 roduction of material forms\, persons\, cultures\, and histories\, with a 
 focus on bodily knowledge in the creative process as well as in reception 
 by body-minds. He draws from his work among Yoruba-speaking peoples of Wes
 t Africa\, presenting examples of diverse multi-sensory experiences that c
 onstitute elements of a Yoruba sensorium. While he will focus on one Afric
 an culture\, he suggests this approach has important implications universa
 lly.Henry John Drewal is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History and Afr
 o-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is currently
  a Research Fellow at Bard Graduate Center (May–August 2017). An apprentic
 eship with a Yoruba sculptor in Nigeria transformed his life and led him t
 o interdisciplinary studies at Columbia University in African art history 
 and culture where he earned two Masters’ degrees and a PhD. He has publish
 ed several books\, edited volumes\, exhibition catalogues\, and many artic
 les on African/African Diaspora arts\, among them: Introspectives: Contemp
 orary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent (The California A
 fro-American Museum\,1989)\; Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Tho
 ught (Alfred Knopf and The Center for African Art\, 1989)\; Beads\, Body\,
  and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe (UCLA Fowler Museum\, 1998
 )\; Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and its Diasporas (UCLA Fo
 wler Museum and University of Washington Press\, 2008)\; and “Soulful Stit
 ching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India” in African Arts (Vo
 l. 46.1\, 2013). He is currently developing his approach for understanding
  material culture/arts\, cultures\, and histories called Sensiotics\, whic
 h considers the crucial role of the senses in shaping body-minds. This was
  the focus of his work at Bard Graduate Center as he studied collections o
 f African objects in forged iron from New York museums for a forthcoming t
 raveling exhibition entitled Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths
 .
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Come to your Senses!
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