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X-WR-CALNAME:Piers Secunda | Witnessing the Destruction of Culture by ISIS
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DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the UNO School of the Arts Gallery and th
 e Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy exhibit titled Nobo
 dy’s Listening\, Piers Secunda's lecture will describe how his abstract 
 painting practice changed direction 20 years ago and became an examination
  of the destruction of culture. His work has been exhibited internationall
 y since the mid 90s\, was used as a tool of diplomacy between warring fact
 ions in Iraq in 2018 and is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert 
 Museum\, London\, The Iraq National Museum\, Baghdad\, and on permanent di
 splay at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University — the oldest Museum i
 n the world.\n\n \n\nThis program is organized and hosted by UNO's School 
 of Arts and the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy and c
 o-sponsored by the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Interfaith Education Center 
 at Manhattan College\; Center for Genocide and Human Rights Research in Af
 rica and the Diaspora at Northeastern Illinois University\; The Ray Wolpow
  Institute for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against 
 Humanity at Western Washington University.
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SUMMARY:Piers Secunda | Witnessing the Destruction of Culture by ISIS
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.unomaha.edu/event/piers_secunda_witnessing_the
 _destruction_of_culture_by_isis
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