Papers by John Monroe
The Journal of Modern History, 2014
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 2008
History of Religions, 1999
... description of the tables tournantes observed in Germany, Silas made a visionary pro-nounceme... more ... description of the tables tournantes observed in Germany, Silas made a visionary pro-nouncement ... of mental life for the spiritual, men had begun to seek revelations from animated ... the phenomena but also alleging that others were the products of "the ordinary acoustical process ...
Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling, 2015
Sitting around a table with friends, laying hands on its top, and feeling it rotate, creak, or ta... more Sitting around a table with friends, laying hands on its top, and feeling it rotate, creak, or tap, apparently without any direct physical impulsion, became a common party game from Brussels to Moscow. While broad popular interest diminished rapidly, small groups across Europe embraced the American notion that these phenomena and others of similar kind could serve as a means of conversing with the spirits of the dead, and these groups began to speculate about the metaphysical significance of this dialogue. Over the next decade and a half, these isolated groups grew and coalesced. First in France, then in Italy, Spain, and Russia, it became common to distinguish Spiritualism from 'Spiritism' , a religious system that shared fundamental elements with its American progenitor but differed on key points that seem to have made it more attractive to believers whose expectations were shaped by Catholicism and, to a lesser extent,
Conferences by John Monroe
In her famous 2009 TED Talk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie alerts listeners to what she calls “the dan... more In her famous 2009 TED Talk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie alerts listeners to what she calls “the danger of the single story.” “To create a single story,” she explains, “show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.” In museums and academic settings, attributing artistic creation and knowledge to discrete cultural or ethnic groups creates single stories, concealing complexity and implying sameness among art makers, audiences, and patrons. Scholars have for decades recognized the inadequacy of the approach (e.g., Vandenhoute 1948, Sieber and Rubin 1968, Bravmann 1973, Kasfir 1984, Vogel 1984, Oguibe 1999, Berns, Fardon, and Kasfir 2011). Yet without new models to replace old frameworks, art historians and other scholars have continued to rely on singular cultural or ethnic group classifications to explain art.
This panel extends a conversation initiated through an ACASA-sponsored panel at the 2016 African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Following from that experience, this second gathering, in Accra, allows us to deepen engagement with the theme as well as bring different voices to the discussion. The goals remain the same, namely to question and shatter single stories in order to bring specificity to the study of historical arts of Africa. Panel participants will examine longstanding challenges in and fresh possibilities for the labeling and presentation of historical arts of Africa.
Co-Chairs: Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Emory University; Yaëlle Biro, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Discussant: Constantine Petridis, Art Institute of Chicago
Speakers: John Warne Monroe, Iowa State University; Paul Davis, The Menil Collection; Matthew Rarey, Oberlin College; Elizabeth Perrill, UNC Greensboro
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Conferences by John Monroe
This panel extends a conversation initiated through an ACASA-sponsored panel at the 2016 African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Following from that experience, this second gathering, in Accra, allows us to deepen engagement with the theme as well as bring different voices to the discussion. The goals remain the same, namely to question and shatter single stories in order to bring specificity to the study of historical arts of Africa. Panel participants will examine longstanding challenges in and fresh possibilities for the labeling and presentation of historical arts of Africa.
Co-Chairs: Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Emory University; Yaëlle Biro, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Discussant: Constantine Petridis, Art Institute of Chicago
Speakers: John Warne Monroe, Iowa State University; Paul Davis, The Menil Collection; Matthew Rarey, Oberlin College; Elizabeth Perrill, UNC Greensboro
Book Reviews by John Monroe
This panel extends a conversation initiated through an ACASA-sponsored panel at the 2016 African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Following from that experience, this second gathering, in Accra, allows us to deepen engagement with the theme as well as bring different voices to the discussion. The goals remain the same, namely to question and shatter single stories in order to bring specificity to the study of historical arts of Africa. Panel participants will examine longstanding challenges in and fresh possibilities for the labeling and presentation of historical arts of Africa.
Co-Chairs: Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Emory University; Yaëlle Biro, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Discussant: Constantine Petridis, Art Institute of Chicago
Speakers: John Warne Monroe, Iowa State University; Paul Davis, The Menil Collection; Matthew Rarey, Oberlin College; Elizabeth Perrill, UNC Greensboro