Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World Symposium
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, TuscaloosaThe symposium “Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World,” part of the project Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe and Asia, is intended to extend and expand knowledge of cultural production by and for early modern women – particularly those associated with the courts – on a global scale. See the full program on the Department of Art & Art History's website. While numerous conferences, symposia and resulting publications in the past several [...]
Knap-In 2024
Moundville Archaeological Park 634 Mound State Parkway, MoundvilleMoundville Archaeological Park will host its annual Knap-In on March 1-2, 2024. This stone tool maker event at will host flint knappers from all over the country. Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools. People have chipped rocks into tools and weapons for thousands of years. Native Americans knapped stone arrow and spear points, knife blades, scrapers, drills and many other tools and weapons. If you’re interested in learning to knap, or you just [...]