#  Destroying Images: Current Iconoclasm in Context 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 1, 2016** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St**  



 

 



 

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**James Simpson, Chair, Department of English and Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Harvard University**


The destruction of iconic images and monuments—iconoclasm—carried out today by extremists representing a wide range of political and religious views, makes many recoil in horror. This response, however, is in part derived from the fact that our Western cultures have themselves been fiercely iconoclastic. James Simpson will discuss the six classic phases of iconoclasm in European history and highlight the role that museums have played in protecting objects from major iconoclastic events. From this history, he will put current iconoclasm into perspective.

[View](http://semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/files/semitic/files/simpson.eposter.jpg?m=1456765721)the lecture flyer

Presented in collaboration with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Free parking is available at the [52 Oxford Street Garage](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52%20Oxford%20St,%20Harvard%20University,%20Cambridge,%20MA%2002138/@42.3801645,-71.1153057,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e37740a3c56959:0xe17bf20973449411)

Free and open to the public



 

 



 

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