Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 1:30pm

The 2015 Lorraine Beitler Lectures, University of Pennsylvania, in association with the exhibition

"The Image Affair: Dreyfus in the Media, 1894-1906"
Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kamin Gallery
(April 13 – August 7, 2015)

http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/dreyfus_2015.html

The Image Affair: Dreyfus in the Media, 1894-1906 examines the infamous wrongful conviction for treason, and eventual exoneration, of Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus as it played out in the French media at the turn of the last century. Encompassing the full range of the period’s print culture including the illustrated press, broadsheets, photography, postcards, films and even board games, the exhibition draws almost entirely from the Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the largest such collections in the world.

1:30 – 3:00 pm: Public conversation between Lorraine Beitler and Norman L. Kleeblatt, Kislak Center Room 627

Conversation about collecting and curating the sensitive visual material related to the Dreyfus Affair between Lorraine Beitler (Ed.D., collector/curator, The Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair) and Norman L. Kleeblatt (Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator, The Jewish Museum, New York, and curator of the 1987 exhibition The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth, and Justice).

4:00 – 6:00 pm: “Art, Print Culture, and Radical Politics, c. 1900” – A Symposium, Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center

with Hollis Clayson, Professor of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University, and Vanessa R. Schwartz, Professor of History, Art History and Critical Studies, University of Southern California.

Please email the organizer, André Dombrowski, for further questions: adom@sas.upenn.edu

Image: Zola-Mouquette (Paris: Léon Hayard, ca. 1899). Anti-Dreyfusard card with
movable panel, ridiculing Émile Zola as defender of Alfred Dreyfus, likely
produced during the time of Zola's trial (UPenn, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Dreyfus Collection DC354.9.Z65).