Thursday, November 10, 2022 Sienkewicz Lecture in Roman Archaeology "Race, Racism, & Representation in Roman Art: Aethiopians in the Visual Arts of the Roman World" Sinclair Bell, Professor of Art History, Northern Illinois University (sinclair.bell@niu.edu ) 7:30 pm, Pattee Auditorium (Center for Science and Business 100),  Monmouth College, Monmouth IL The visual and material culture of the Roman Empire provides an abundant record of encounters with or just imaginings of foreign peoples. These images render visible complex formulations of ethnicity, social hierarchies, and power. This lecture surveys the ways in which imperial artists represented the peoples whom the Romans referred to as Aethiopians or Nubians (i.e., “Black” Africans) in a variety of visual media. The lecture also considers how and why these works have been (mis)interpreted or sometimes altogether ignored by ancient art historians, and proposes new ways of integrating them into future, critical histories of Roman art. Flyer