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University, Fresno professors will discuss Sheela-na-gigs and criminals
in two offerings of the College of Arts and Humanities Lecture Series in
February.
Dr. Jennifer Borland, who teaches medieval art history in the Department
of Art and Design, will address "Considering Women's Spaces:
Architecture and the Bodies of Medieval Sheela-na-gigs” at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 1 in the Conley Lecture Hall of the Phebe Conley Art
Building. Sheela-na-gigs are depictions of women with exaggerated
genitalia.
Dr. Ted L.L. Bergman will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 in the Alice Peters
Auditorium of the University Business Center about “Singing Thieves and
Dancing Pimps: Criminals as Entertainment in Early Modern Spain.”
Bergman’s presentation will focus on how authors from Spain’s Golden Age
used criminals in both literature and social commentary to captivate,
startle and humor audiences.
Borland received her Ph.D. in art history from Stanford University in
2006. She recently published an essay on the unconventional archives
often used by art historians in the Medieval Feminist Forum and has
forthcoming articles on a manuscript depicting the Passion of Saint
Margaret and the enigmatic painted ceilings of the Alhambra.
Bergman teaches in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and
Literatures. He specializes in Spanish literature and culture from the
16th and 17th centuries. His interest in humor, satire and all forms of
mass entertainment has led him to spend a majority of his time studying
the period’s lighter side.
(Copy by University Communications
student-intern Megan Jacobsen.)
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