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February 24, 2020
Friday, February 14, 2020 Review of Yale film and Slavic scholar John MacKay’s ‘magisterial’ new book, Dziga Vertov: Life and work (link is external), in the Times Literary Supplement: In Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929), the...
November 22, 2019
    The symposium will bring together a panel of speakers to explore the history and archaeology of ancient Persepolis—along with its revival in the modern era, in the visual imaginations of artists such as Parviz Tanavoli and others
October 21, 2019
Thomas Allen Harris was opening keynote at the Plural Knowledge: Value of the Public University seminar at the University of Brasilia, Department of History. The title of the keynote is “Queering the Family Album”. For the past year, the Department...
September 13, 2019
A New TV Show Looks at Family Albums Across the USA The PBS series Family Pictures USA suggests that “sharing photographs reminds us of our common roots and strengthens connections with our friends, families and neighbors. Host Thomas Allen...
August 12, 2019
The series FAMILY PICTURES USA , hosted by Thomas Allen Harris, will air nationally on PBS primetime August 12th at 9pm  and August 13th at 8pm and 9pm.  FAMILY PICTURES USA looks at America through the lens of the family photo album and grew out of...
June 10, 2019
New Three-Part Series Premieres Monday and Tuesday, August 12-13, on PBS Producer and Host Thomas Allen Harris Travels Across the Country, Meeting People Whose Family Photos Reveal Our Nation’s History, Diversity and Common Values ARLINGTON, VA — ...
April 11, 2019
Five Yale faculty members and affiliates were among 168 scholars, artists, and writers appointed as 2019 Guggenheim Fellows. The fellows, who are appointed by the foundation on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, were chosen from...