Jill and John Avery Lecture in the History of Art, Philip J. Deloria, Harvard University

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Kislak Center, Van Pelt Libraries

In which a conversation is staged between cultural critic Walter Benjamin and Charging Elk, a refugee Lakota modernist so thoroughly unknown he might as well be a figment of collective imagination.  Their newly revealed exchanges, which circled through art, museums, modernism, the sacred, and life and death itself, participate in a project of epistemological commensurability and distinction that seeks to engage concepts of decolonization, Indigenization, and survivance.